23 Verbs to Use for the Word pox

where could she catch small-pox?"

Tell her I've got the small-pox, or broke my leg, or my old man's dyingor anything, so that she understands I can't come.

So Spark in an Intrigue of Quality, Grows weary of his splendid Drudgery; Hates the Fatigue, and cries a Pox upon her, What a damn'd Bustle's here with Love and Honour?

It has been looked upon as aperient; and was formerly in great esteem among the common people for throwing out the small-pox and measles.

He gives that pretended lady the small-pox.

"An illustrious prince," Belort says, "by wearing such an amulet, escaped the small-pox.

When they couldn't get shot or induce the small-pox to hasten their departure from this world of care, they passed away for no reason at all.

n I; don' b'lieve he knows cow-pox from kine, when he sees it.

Or, if the physicians would forbid us to pronounce the words pox, gout, rheumatism and stone, would that expedient serve like so many talismans to destroy the diseases themselves?

He goes away, therefore, well satisfied with himself, when, in fact, he has been only submitting to a little mortification, voluntarily, to avoid the danger of a greater; much in the same spirit with that which leads a man to receive the small-pox by inoculation, to avoid the danger of taking it in the natural way.

And I could scape (a pox on it)

Garzowne, what a pox do you stand heere for, de grand poltrone pezant, and see de Doctor be dus? Alb.

Parents should, therefore, avoid exposing young children to the danger of infection by taking them where it is known to exist, as chicken-pox, in weakly constitutions, or in very young children, may superinduce small-pox, the one disease either running concurrently with the other, or discovering itself as the other declines.

I should suspect small-pox or varioloid, but that there has not been a case reported here for years.

In the hospital to which she went for confinement, she took the small-pox.

she said, 'why, braver than any soldier, in tending the small-pox, the cholera, the fevers, and all those horrible things.

the bawdy broker, I meanes, where a man for his dollers may have choyse of diseases, and som tymes the pox too, if hee will leeve beehind him a good pawne for it.

If I do not deceive you, I'll bid a pox of this wit, and hang with a good grace.

But a dreadful retribution fell on the Indians; for they were infected with the disease of their victims, and for some months virulent small-pox raged among many of the bands of Creeks and Cherokees.

It is quite ripe to breed small-pox, scarlet-fever, diphtheria, or anything else you please.

Say it had been at Rome, and seen the Reliques, Drunk your Verdea wine, and ridde at Naples, Brought home a pox of Venice treacle with it, To cure young wenches that have eaten ashes: Must this thing therefore? Bri.

As this was an affair of quite an alarming nature, the General made strict inquiry into it; and ascertained that some unlicensed traders had, the preceding summer, carried up the small pox, which is fatal to the Indians; and that several of their warriors, as well as others, had fallen victims to the distemper.

As I live I'le cut it off: a pox upon it; For sure it was made for that use; do you bring me Liveries?

23 Verbs to Use for the Word  pox