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A billious bloated Rove that I can whack with abandon?
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In addition, since Gordon took the helm of GB Titanic it has taken on a billious green hue which I can only assume is the shed equivalent of gangrene.
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In addition, since Gordon took the helm of GB Titanic it has taken on a billious green hue which I can only assume is the shed equivalent of gangrene.
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In addition, since Gordon took the helm of GB Titanic it has taken on a billious green hue which I can only assume is the shed equivalent of gangrene.
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The common diseases of the inhabitants are nervous and billious fevers.
The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. I Charles Lee 1908
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You see, her father and mother had had some difficulty: and he wus took down with billious colic voyolent four weeks before
Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician Marietta Holley 1881
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During these years he often had ague and fever; also, was subject to attacks of billious colic, when, for a few hours, he was a terrible sufferer.
Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A. M. Elizabeth Willits Crooks 1875
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Another and not the least important advantage obtained by this skillful device of Mr.P. is that, whereas the wells are situated in a low, marshy, miasmatic district, productive of much disease, intermittent, billious and typhoid fevers, in the summer and fall, and pneumonia in winter, a healthier locality is secured for the operatives in the dry pine lands adjacent.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi, Called Session at Columbus, February and March, 1865. Mississippi. Legislature. House of Representatives 1865
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When I was with him in dismounted camp his stomache & liver were deranged having a diarrhoea of billious character.
Franklin County: Samuel M. Potter to Cynthia Potter, September 5, 1863 Samuel M. Potter 1863
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I told you that this plantation was remarkably sickly previous to the fall of 1855 -- so much so that it was strange for even one to escape billious, or argue and fever.
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