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  • noun Obsolete spelling of smallpox.

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Examples

  • Good Tidings, or News from the Farm: a Poem, his poem on small-pox vaccination, published (December).

    A Bloomfield Chronology 2009

  • Bubonic plague and small-pox were raging, while dysentery and pneumonia were reducing the population, and the railroad was raging worst of all.

    THE HUSSY 2010

  • In one room a missionary found a man ill with small-pox, his wife just recovering from her confinement, and the children running about half naked and covered with dirt.

    WANTED: A NEW LAW OF DEVELOPMENT 2010

  • There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • Tory Trollope, one of the most popular of contemporary English novelists, in his Barchester novels, especially in his Can You Forgive Her? forces us, if we read him, to associate through wearisome pages with people whose morals and manners are of the lowest type, and whose acquaintance in real life we should as carefully avoid as we shun persons infected with the small-pox or the plague.

    The unmentionable 2010

  • There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox.

    Cue outrage in three, two, one… 2007

  • There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox.

    Cue outrage in three, two, one… 2007

  • Instead of small-pox and Christianity, they brought an Imperial alliance, samurai ethics, and technology.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • John, who was master of the ship Two Brothers, died of small-pox off the coast of Spain at the age of 24.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

  • There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox.

    Cue outrage in three, two, one… 2007

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