grippe

• The 'grippe' has gripped us here most universally, and no wonder, considering our most exceptional weather; and better the grippe than the fever which preceded it. —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II
• Is it stoicism or fatigue I have been having and still have the grippe, the result of it for your Cruchard, is a general lassitude accompanied by a violent (or rather a profound) melancholy. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
• Debussy tout feu tout glace La critique de Jacques Doucelin [15 septembre 2004] Une salle qui tousse à gorge déployée en été, hors de toute épidémie de grippe, au mieux manque d'attention, au pire s'ennuie. —  Opera Today
• It can't be that we're the fellows.... Why, there's Antonia, coming in through the rain I wonder," said I, "if la grippe isn't taking a bad turn with her father She came in, shedding the rain from her mackintosh like a water-fowl, radiant with health and the air of outdoors Gentlemen," said she gaily, "who but myself would come out in anything but a diving-suit to-day It's almost an even thing," said Jim, "between a calamity, which brings you, and good fortune, which keeps you away. —  Aladdin ; Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic
• La grippe is only reported occasionally of late years, and its real effects cannot yet be ascertained. —  The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States

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