"Grippe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... overdue. The wife and four children were in despair. They had had nothing since the morning of the day before, and then only bread and water, except a little broth which a neighbor, not much better off, brought in to one of the children—a beautiful little girl, sick with what would be "la grippe" on Beacon Hill, but is only "grip" down in the slums. The mother had a little babe, and was in such delicate health that it was impossible for her to go out to wash or scrub. Her two narrow little rooms were scrupulously neat and clean, ...
— White Slaves • Louis A Banks
... il n'tait pas heureux, lui non plus. M. Eyssette, de le voir ternellement la larme l'[oe]il, avait fini par le prendre en grippe et l'abreuvait de taloches.... On entendait tout le jour: "Jacques, tu es un butor! Jacques, tu es un ne!" Le fait est [15] que, lorsque son pre tait l, le malheureux Jacques perdait tous ses ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... work of the Association is "on a boom" in New England. Everywhere a great many questions were asked, and great many expressions of hearty interest manifested. During eight weeks, the audiences averaged over four hundred in number, in spite of "la grippe" and the rainy, sloppy weather that prevailed. In this time we traveled over five thousand miles, giving the Stereopticon lecture in forty-three different places, and making twenty-three other addresses upon the work, to audiences numbering ...
— The American Missionary — Vol. 44, No. 4, April, 1890 • Various
... accommodations in a near-by town, where we were to take our meals also. It was late when we arrived, and we spent a restless night, for the inoculation "took." It wasn't any worse than a light attack of the grippe, and in the morning we were both all right again, after the passing of what is called the "negative phase." I, ...
— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve
... the mid-April sun and warmth of yesterday, propelled in his wheel chair, the first time after four months of imprisonment in his sick room. He has had the worst winter yet, mainly from grippe and gastric troubles, and threaten'd blindness; but keeps good spirits, and has a new little forthcoming book ...
— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman
... Beach Club only as an interesting adjunct to Palm Beach life, and let us admit that, as such, it is altogether in the picture. Let us, in short, seek, upon this brief excursion, not only to recover from our case of grippe, but to recover also that sense of the purely esthetic, without regard to moral issues, which we used to enjoy some years ago, before our legislatures legislated virtue into us. Let us soar, upon the wings of our checkbook, in one final flight to the realms ...
— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street |
