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CRIBBINGS FROM CONTEMPORARIES

... asked. Because her health is so broken into. Broken down, you should say. Broken down—oh! yea. And, indeed, sin= the smallpox broken up in our city— Broken out— She thinks she will leave it for a few weeks. Will she leave her house done f ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1874
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 342 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A FAMOUS FRENCHMAN

... was alined to be offended. Madame do Chtteaubriand was a little dried-upload woman, who had been fearfully scourged by the small-pox. Her whole Um woo spent in spending money amongst the poor, and by her vroll-intentioned but ill-judged philanthropy she ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1875
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 442 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

A SUBSTITUTE FOR A WIFE

... ague I No, bad luck to them; it's worse that. Scarlatina, perhaps ? Sore throat, measles, chicken-pox, varioloid, small-pox ? • None of them. ' 4 Then what is it ? inquired the doctor, the having mournfully shaken her head, as each postal& been ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1876
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 422 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

BEN BRIERLEY'S . JOURNAL

... crucifix, and the light that fell on the upturned face certainly was not lurid and full of specks of blood as was that in the small-pox chamber of the Versailles chateau, when Louis. the well-beloved lay faos to face with the shadow cloaked from head to ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1876
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1600 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Groby wee a man, and yet he Viia Was a thing of bone and dried flesh and fibre, but destitute

... shining gift or virtue to =eke amends for a plain exterior; but she had dealt with Toe, for he was neither beautiful nor good. Smallpox had swept that visage of every line wherein a stray gleam of beauty might have lingered, and anything more weird or awesome ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1876
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 828 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

. . OWD GROBY: A QUEER CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY. BY JAMBS OITRYSTAL. PABT IT was unlucky Friday, and unlucky

... slender he was not grateful His face had a weasened, high-dried appearance, and had. like Groby's, been deeply scarred by the smallpox. The skin, which was puckered and wrinkled like the film we see upon a dish of boiled milk, seemed to have no of flesh, but ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1876
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 444 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

him, and the stupified cure, was stopped in his course by a gigantic spectre, who menaced him by a gesture,

... about fifty biers, upon each of which was enthroned a strangely deformed being, a dwarf, whose face was deeply pitted by smallpox, and whose head was swelled and puffed out to the size of a barrel. The spectre with the club had abandoned the curate in ...

Published: Saturday 19 May 1877
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 271 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

IN SEARCH OF HIS WIFE

... and— Cognomine, did ye say? Bedad et was none she could fasten to her heal since her losing her hair since having the smallpox last yare, surely t No, no, my friend, you do not seem to comprehend my meaning. I wish to know what was her acquired name ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1878
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 492 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

BEN BRIERLEY'S JOURNAL. TEBBITANY 21,1880

... there, and travelled about a good deal in early life. Upwards of thirty years ago, while in London, be lost his sight through smallpox, and after that sad misfortune he returned to his native spot, where he still lives. Naturally shrewd and intelligent on ...

Published: Saturday 21 February 1880
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 627 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

BEN BRIERLEYI JOURNAL

... introduced these others, my predecessors, to my counterpane, and I found little comfort in reflecting on such things as fevers, smallpox, &c., and the possibility of my falling a victim to contagion in some dreadful form or another. My imagination being now ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1880
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1189 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

AIIBII4 18, 1862

... remember her head being laid down in sickness for the first, and I believe the only time, when that distressing malady the small-pox threatened to spoil the lustre of her personal beauty, and to place her life for a time in jeopardy. The village seemed a ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1881
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 719 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CHAPTER I

... CHAPTER I. There was not a lovelier girl in all our village than Annie Howard. What if the small-pox had slightly, very slightly marked her once smooth cheek—it had left her heart unimpaired, and as pure a soul shone out of her dark blue eyes as ever ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1881
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 281 | Page: 6 | Tags: none