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  • It's vile catch-cold weather; the sky itself is sneezing.

    Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

  • Locke, indeed, than whom no man ever less was acquainted with Greek or Roman life, pretends that the ancients seldom used a pocket-handkerchief; knew little of catarrhs, and even less of what the French consider indigenous to this rainy island -- _le catch-cold_.

    The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • And as to _le catch-cold_, the-most dangerous shape in which it has ever been known, resembling the English _cholera morbus_, belongs to the modern city of Rome from situation; and probably therefore to the ancient city from the same cause.

    The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • It is furnished; but it must be aired, for I would not have her die a paltry catch-cold death.

    Anna St. Ives Thomas Holcroft 1777

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