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" ... they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. "
The British Magazine, Or, Monthly Repository for Gentlemen & Ladies - Page 263
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Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ...

John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately 20 (229) rips open that you offer to her with a large needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much matter as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after that...
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Chambers's papers for the people, Parts 13-18

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 650 pages
...nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of smallpox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to her with...needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much matter as can lie upon the head of the needle, and after that...
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Woman's Record: Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from "the Beginning ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Women - 1853 - 946 pages
...nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. ed her to leave off. The day which dismissed the music-master...was one of the happiest of Catherine's life. Her scratch), and puts into the vein as much matter as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after that...
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Excelsior: Helps to Progress in Religion, Science, and Literature, Volume 3

1855 - 488 pages
...nutshell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to her with...needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much matter as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after that,...
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Historical and literary celebrities, selected from Chambers's papers for the ...

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1859 - 636 pages
...nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of smallpox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to her with...needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much matter as can lie upon the head of the needle, and after that...
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Historical and Literary Celebrities: Being Biographical Sketches Selected ...

William Chambers - Biography - 1859 - 600 pages
...full of the matter of the best sort of smallpox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. Уhе immediately rips open that you offer to her with a...needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much mutter as can lie upon the head of the needle, and after that...
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The book of days, a miscellany of popular antiquities, Volume 1

Robert Chambers - Chronology, Historical - 1862 - 880 pages
...full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks you what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to her with...needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much * The oommunicationi of the two Italian ; hysicians are recorded...
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Letters ... descriptive of ... travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, with ...

lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1865 - 278 pages
...nutshell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to her with...needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much matter as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after that...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to her with...needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much matter as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after that...
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The Worthies of Cumberland ...: George Graham, Abraham Fletcher, William ...

Henry Lonsdale - Cumberland (England) - 1875 - 348 pages
...best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open what you offer to her with a large needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much matter as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after that...
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