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Yes; we should surely respect the expressed will and conviction of the most practical of nations, arrived at after the experience of three choleras, stretching over a whole generation.

From Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc by Kingsley, Charles

Have seen three choleras, two army fevers, and yellow-jack without end.

From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Kingsley, Charles

It may not be uninteresting to mention here, that there are no quarantines and no choleras in Bohemia or Hanover.

From Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community. by Gillkrest, J. (James)

I've seen two or three choleras, here and there, and a Black Death and a bubonic plague.

From VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea by Murray, David Christie

“Look at the drainage; look at the plagues and fevers and choleras they get here.”

From Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor by Schonberg, John