Example Sentences

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So may rheums and catarrhs be far from you, and may your hearth be crowned with content!

From Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

Now have we many chimneys; and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses.

From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by Harrison, William

Daffy's elixir possesses extraordinary powers in purifying the blood and working off all phlegms, humours, vapours, or rheums.

From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

See, now, how like a man it was to let him lie here uncovered and fill his body with deadly rheums.

From The Prince and the Pauper, Part 4. by Twain, Mark

We must seek firing in the bowels of the earth, or the unkind atmosphere will fill us with rheums and aches.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft