The infectious hounds to be separated, and fed apart.

If in dark sullen mood, The gloating hound refuse his wonted meal, 200 Retiring to some close, obscure retreat, Gloomy, disconsolate: with speed remove The poor infectious wretch, and in strong chains Bind him suspected.

220 A yet more dreadful scene; his glaring eye Redden with fury, like some angry boar Churning he foams; and on his back erect His pointed bristles rise; his tail incurved He drops, and with harsh broken bowlings rends The poison-tainted air, with rough hoarse voice Incessant bays; and snuff's the infectious breeze;

For as the dog 330 (Whose fatal bite conveyed the infectious bane)

Clever invention of absurd situations and success in starting infectious laughter are the prime qualities of these plays.

His chief claim to his present important position among playwrights is based on his originality and fearlessness of thought, the unfailing sprightliness of his conversation, the infectious spirit of raillery in his comedies, and his mastery of the requirements of the modern stage.

They are varied in subject, the incidents are well developed, the characters are genuine Irish peasants and villagers, and the humor is infectious.

They all had the appearance of persons tainted with an infectious disorder; they looked pale and weak, and from the account which they gave of the loss of their comrades, of the symptoms and circumstances which attended their dissolution, such as convulsions, and other signs of a violent death, I was fully convinced that they fell victims to the poison.

We must find, therefore, some other reason why the Ex-Commander of the Palmetto Regiment, when the Carolinians ask the pleasure of his society, gives them instead the agreeable relaxation of a sermon,an example which, we trust, will not prove infectious among the clergy.

Very pretty, very smart with a pretty wit, she has the most delightfully gay, infectious laugh, which contrasts oddly with her curiously sad, unsmiling eyes, Mrs. Wilmot has a Madonna face.

A tin cup filled with sea-water is placed before us, and we each drop six piastres into itfor money, strange as it may seem, is infectious.

Oh that grand maister Of mechall[90] lusts, that bulke of brothelree, That stillary of all infectious sinnes, Hath scapt the wrack, and with his fellowe guest And partner in corruption makes this waye, And with no tarde pace.

What second bewtyes that ... frend, That tremblinge flyes from his infectious ills To patronise her youth and inocence Beneathe that goode man's goodnes Raph.

O muffle muffle, good Graccus, do not taint thy sence With sight of these infectious animalles, 'Less reason in thee have the upper hand To governe sence, to see and shun the sight.

Draxy's sanguine cheerfulness was infectious; even Jane began to look forward with interest to the new home; and Reuben smiled when Draxy sang.

There was a resonance in his tone, a liveliness to his expression, that was infectious.

he asked with an enthusiasm that was infectious.

P.D. had not gone many steps when Jack heard the same sonorous call that had greeted him that first night when he stopped before the door of the Ewolds; the call of a great, infectious fellowship between men: "Luck, Sir Chaps!

He stooped to relieve the wants of the meanest of his subjects, and would peril his life by visiting them when sick of infectious diseases; he prohibited, by law, masters from killing their slaves, gave to slaves legal trial, and exempted them from torture; yet towards certain individuals and classes, he showed himself a monster of cruelty.

Nothing used to be considered so infectious or contagious as small-pox; and people not very long ago used to cover up patients with heavy bed clothes, while they kept up large fires and shut the windows.

Small-pox, of course, under this regime, is very "infectious."

Rose says it is all the pink of fashion only coming it strongI declare they are infectious!"

"He can't tell yet; he does not know whether it is infectious or only epidemic; and when he heard how the dear boy had been for days past at the Exhibition at the town-hall, and drinking lots of iced water on Saturday, he seemed to think it quite accounted for.

Of course the doctors had the usual debate whether the fever were infectious or epidemic, but it made little difference.

offwouldn't so much as speak to me for fear I should be infectious.