cholera

The cholera had broken out in its most fatal form and people were dying like flies.

They fumigated us to guard themselves against the cholera, though we hailed from no infected port.

He is preparing a new ward in case of the cholera coming to us."

I say this continual smoking must have been one cause, at least, of his peculiar disposition; for every one knows that this earthly air, whether ashore or afloat, is terribly infected with the nameless miseries of the numberless mortals who have died exhaling it; and as in time of the cholera, some people go about with a camphorated handkerchief to their mouths; so, likewise, against all mortal tribulations, Stubb's tobacco smoke might have operated as a sort of disinfecting agent.

DURING the dread reign of the Cholera in New York, I had accepted the invitation of a relative to spend a fortnight with him in the retirement of his cottage ornee on the banks of the Hudson.

Something always comes along, cholera duty in India and things like that.

The horror of cholera was then in the land; and we heard in the stage- office that a man lay dead of it in the hotel overhead.

My father was a well man only four hours before he died;--it was one of the first cholera cases in New Orleans.

We have very many soldiers in camp near my village, and the cholera break out in that camp, and the men die like flies.

The devil, switching his hoofs, up and says, "I want John." "What for?" says the old governor, "What business is that of yours," says the devil, getting mad, --"I want to use him." "Take him," says the governor --and by the Lord, Flask, if the devil didn't give John the Asiatic cholera before he got through with him, I'll eat this whale in one mouthful.

Danglars by the unexpected appearance of the brigade of soldiers, and by the disclosure which had followed, the mansion was deserted with as much rapidity as if a case of plague or of cholera morbus had broken out among the guests.

Hardly a week after his decease, one of the Cunard steamers brought intelligence of the death, by cholera, of Judge Pyncheon's son, just at the point of embarkation for his native land.