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'Lazaretto' and getting drunk on the wine they found there.
The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago 1880
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To begin with, they filled the inn they kept under the title of "Lazaretto" by force, and then they sold the disinfectants.
Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville Prince De Joinville 1859
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Remember you must edit my posthumous works, with a Life of the Author, for which I will send you Confessions, dated "Lazaretto," Smyrna, Malta, or Palermo -- one can die any where.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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My above kind-hearted and agreeable young informant used to discourse, in our evenings in the Lazaretto at Malta, very eloquently about the beauty of his wife, whom he had left behind him at Cairo — her brown hair, her brilliant complexion, and her blue eyes.
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When he drove out to Tybee, he liked to shoot up over that bump in the road leading onto the Lazaretto Creek Bridge, because if he hit it just right he could get all four wheels off the ground at the same time.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994
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When he drove out to Tybee, he liked to shoot up over that bump in the road leading onto the Lazaretto Creek Bridge, because if he hit it just right he could get all four wheels off the ground at the same time.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994
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In 1806, Dr. Buchanan removed to Philadelphia, and died the next year of yellow fever, in the discharge of his official duties as Lazaretto physician.
Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872 William Frederick Poole
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I went to visit the Lazaretto, and while conversing with the doctor (M. Esperon,) and the Turkish superintendent, four wild Arabs were brought in, their hands fettered and chains on their legs, accused of striking a soldier near _Khan Yunas_.
Byeways in Palestine James Finn
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The captain of the Bashi-bozuk, having called at my tents with his mounted troop, followed me to the Lazaretto.
Byeways in Palestine James Finn
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Sometimes a morning's interest would be excited by some story of plague in the Lazaretto, and a proposed adjournment of the ship to Vourlah, to be out of harm's way; and such speculations, though not exactly pleasurable, were at least anti-stagnative in character.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various
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