The officer in charge, a "mighty hunter" in civil life, showed us his work with a quiet but most contagious enthusiasm.

And the idea of worthlessness is often referred to as when it is said that "There is small choice in rotten apples," with which may be compared another which warns us of the contagious effects of bad influence: "The rotten apple injures its neighbour.

The general character of all these is, that they are contagious, and, as a general rule, attack a person only once in his lifetime; that their chain of diseased actions always begins with fever, and that, after an interval of from one to four days, the fever is followed by an eruption of the skin.

There can be no doubt that chicken-pox, like small-pox, is contagious, and under certain states of the atmosphere becomes endemic.

Nor visit a sick person (especially if the complaint be of a contagious nature) with an empty stomach; as this disposes the system more readily to receive the contagion.

A disposition of that nature is always contagious, men abandoning a failing cause much as rats are known to quit a sinking ship.

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humor.

All this while the people were throwing up their hats and shouting, with enthusiasm so contagious that the heart of Ernest kindled up, and he likewise threw up his hat, and shouted, as loudly as the loudest, "Huzza for the great man!

As for the first, its innocency of being allowed of for a time; I am so far from that persuasion that, from what has been before hinted, I count it perfectly contagious!

Second, Macaulay's good spirits and enthusiasm are contagious.

They all fell into the same ecstasy during their song, and this affected the other animals like a contagious transport.

The compensation to the reader lies not so much in episodical myths, descriptions, and the story at the end, apologetically inserted on Lucretius' theory of sweetened medicine, as rather in the poet's contagious enthusiasm for his science, the thrill of discovery and the sense of wonder (1. 251): Divina est animi ac jucunda voluptas!

Not choosing to incur the risk of passing this contagious load, Leonard retraced his course as far as Holborn Conduit, then turning into Seacole-lane, and making the best of his way to Fleet Bridge, crossed it, and entered the great thoroughfare with which it communicated.

Nothin' restrains my givin' my full and free consent to her goin' but the fear lest contagious maladies should be introdooced among those lovely female youth.

There was something so magnetic and contagious in this frank, confiding manner, that Zelma, ere she was aware, grew unrestrained and communicative in turn.

"] They have commonly great sway over the other slaves, their example is contagious, and their influence subversive of 'plantation discipline.'

Some writers have classed adjectives with verbs; because, with a neuter verb for the copula, they often form logical predicates: as, "Vices are contagious."

SEE Ennis, Leroy M. A manual of the common contagious diseases.

Murder is contagious.

Life is contagious, and in the fact lies the meaning of Comradeship.

[Bishop Gaudri dragged from the Cask224] Murder and arson are contagious.

In 1363, one of those contagious diseases, all at that time called the plague, committed cruel ravages in France.

"The public welfare demands," said Chancellor d'Aguesseau, "that the people should be persuaded that the plague is not contagious, and that the ministry should behave as if it were persuaded of the contrary."

His enthusiasm became contagious.

So in Northumberland, down to the first half of the nineteenth century, "when a contagious disease enters among cattle, the fires are extinguished in the adjacent villages.