Just about this time I was tuk with the measles, and father died, and SALLIE got married, and the old woman said to me: "EPHRAIM, I think your school days is ended."

She's subject to measles.

Is the place closed on account of measles?" "No, no."

Marie Antoinette has the Measles.

Those who stay, their wives at least, want him for fear of measles; while the disciple of Esculapius, though he knows there will be better cooking if he remain at home, is certain there will be food for fun if he go.

We came late to Aberdeen, where I found my dear mistress's letter, and learned that all our little people were happily recovered of the measles.

He stood at the back door for a little while watching; Hardy, upright and elate, was listening with profound attention to Miss Nugent; the doctor, sauntering along beside Mrs. Kingdom, was listening with a languid air to an account of her celebrated escape from measles some forty-three years before.

And she said her sister-in-law, Carry, had got round Tom and made a point of it, as she was running them, and now Carry had got the measles and could not come to look after the creature herself; and it would serve her right if Folly Doraine took them out of her hands.

His children would die of the measles, his horses break their knees, his plate be stolen, his house catch fire, and Mark Armsworth die insolvent.

And indade, if ye'll not mind my sayin' so, I begged ye not to go in there, the place looked so disrespectable, as if there might be measles or 'most anything, and the man himself come poppin' out to entice ye in, like the spider with the fly.

That sort o' fallin' in love, why, it comes same ez the measles or the two-year-old teeth, an' th' ain't nothin' sweeter ef it's took philosophical.

They were both sitting together in Louisa's room; Louisa was recovering from the measles.

Like our childhood's measles and whooping cough, it seems to come to most of usus women children.

I get measles and sore throats mostly.

The two decades forming the interim between those years constitute my Dark Age, in which I teethed and measled and whooping-coughed, and went to school, and wore my hair in two long pig-tails, and loved molasses candy, and regarded a school-room as purgatory, a ball-room as heavenwhen I sang and danced and grew as the birds and grasshoppers and flowers sing and dance and grow, because they having nothing else to do.

Except the measles and its sequence, the injury rec'd by the mule last Nov'r and its sequence, he has not lost 15 days' work, I verily believe, in the remaining 19 years.

In 1864, measles ran through all the Blackfoot camps, and was very fatal, and again in 1869 they had the small-pox.

You would be better men if you had more friends like her, and broader-minded women if you dropped a few of those who hand you doughnut recipes over the back fence, and who entertain you with the history of the baby's measles, and how they are managing to meet the payments on their little house.

I am not unsympathetic, either, with the measles or the payments, but I prefer the subjects of conversation which a new woman selects.

Love is like measles.

Love is like measles, by Florence Ryerson Clements & Colin Clements.

The nearest I can get to it is that it is wealth struck in, as measles sometimes strike in when they ought to come out properly, and one is just as dangerous as the other.

I suppose a millionaire like me ought to hire those things done, but I'd have measles of the mind if I sat around doing nothing.

"If you were a parvenu giving a party, and wanted all these fine folks to be seen at your house, that would be lion-hunting; but being whom and what you are, it is hero-worshipa disease peculiar to the young; wholesome and inevitable, like the measles.

"YES, SIR; BUT I 'AD MEASLES ALL FROO CHRISTMAS."