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A windowless hut, a wood fire which smokes in your face because there is no chimney, mouldy bread, ‘Poor John’, lice, scurvy,
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As all the warring clergymen, both Huguenot and Catholic, have died of scurvy,
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A windowless hut, a wood fire which smokes in your face because there is no chimney, mouldy bread, ‘Poor John’, lice, scurvy,
Collected Essays 1900
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Being also sure that I and McDonough would not much longer escape scurvy,
Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia William John Wills 1847
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And, sometimes, he's suspended by the neck Sundry the ways, when Fortune's scurvy,
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