"Grippe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sums needed to wipe out the accumulation of bills. Bragdon might feel misgivings, but he was too busy these days in the gymnastic performance of keeping his feet from the sliding sand to indulge in long reflection. Perhaps, in a mood of depression, induced by grippe or the coming on of languid spring days, he would say, "Milly, let's quit this game—it's no ...
— One Woman's Life • Robert Herrick
... been kept in by la grippe for a day or so," she went on, "and we haven't been allowing people to see him very much; but Mr. Cornish has been in two or three times, and every time when he went away papa was nervous and feverish. To-day, after he left, papa asked—" here she looked at Mr. Elkins, as he stood gravely regarding ...
— Aladdin & Co. - A Romance of Yankee Magic • Herbert Quick
... to explain that the grippe delayed us some weeks, and that we have since been waiting for Mr. Jones. When he was ready, we were not; and now we have been ready more than a month, while he has been kept in Washington by the Silver bill. He said the other day that to venture out of the ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... do you think has happened? Something as enchanting as it is surprising! I wrote you about Dorry's having the grippe; but I would not tell you what a serious affair it was, because you were all so anxious and occupied about Miss Young that I did not like to add to your worries more than I could help. He was pretty ill for nearly a week; and though on the mend now, he is much weakened and run down, and papa, I ...
— In the High Valley - Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series • Susan Coolidge
... delicate flavor of butter and the sharp but pleasing taste of cheese are produced by bacteria. On the other hand, bacteria are the cause of many of the most dangerous diseases, such as typhoid fever, tuberculosis, influenza, and la grippe. ...
— General Science • Bertha M. Clark
... began to feel ill. The ill feeling increased rapidly, until I had pains in all my bones, nausea and faintness, headache, all the symptoms in short that precede an attack of influenza. I thought that I was going to have the grippe, epidemic then in Boston, or something worse. The mind-cure teachings that I had been listening to all the winter thereupon came into my mind, and I thought that here was an opportunity to test myself. On my way home I met a friend, I refrained with some effort from telling ...
— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James
... il n'tait pas heureux, lui non plus. M. Eyssette, de le voir ternellement la larme l'[oe]il, avait fini par le prendre en grippe et l'abreuvait de taloches.... On entendait tout le jour: "Jacques, tu es un butor! Jacques, tu es un ne!" Le fait est [15] que, lorsque son pre tait l, le malheureux Jacques perdait tous ses moyens. Les efforts qu'il faisait pour retenir ses ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet |
