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"Volumes had been written about this creature, but they all treated the single girl like a scarlet-fever victim, a misfit, and . . . you can't really categorize one-third of the female population a figure that's only grown since then as misfits."
Melanie Notkin: Has 'Mommyism' Replaced Feminism? Melanie Notkin 2011
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"Volumes had been written about this creature, but they all treated the single girl like a scarlet-fever victim, a misfit, and . . . you can't really categorize one-third of the female population a figure that's only grown since then as misfits."
Melanie Notkin: Has 'Mommyism' Replaced Feminism? Melanie Notkin 2011
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At the little island of St. Helena the introduction of scarlet-fever is dreaded as a plague.
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At the little island of St. Helena the introduction of scarlet-fever is dreaded as a plague.
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We'd probably be sent off, anyway, because of the scarlet-fever business.
Five Are Together Again Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1966
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It is only where the scarlet-fever poison acts at the outset with so much intensity, that the brain becomes paralyzed at once, and the disease must necessarily terminate fatally, that no remedy has as yet been discovered.
Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent C. W. Wolf
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It may suitably be called the scarlet-fever of curiosity, and rash indeed must be the writer who refuses or neglects to furnish any food for the scandal-monger's maw.
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The scarlet-fever and measles have prevailed to a somewhat alarming extent; but the most contagious of all has been the _French_ fever.
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Then they were obliged to go home, as dear little Beth was very sick with scarlet-fever which she caught from some poor children Mrs. Alcott had been nursing.
Ten American Girls From History Kate Dickinson Sweetser
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RUBEOLA and scarlet-fever, will deny that the remarks which we have offered concerning this latter disease, likewise apply to rubeola.
Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent C. W. Wolf
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