sore throats
- plural of sore throat.
Example Sentences
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They talk of shady groves, purling streams, and cooling breezes, and we get sore-throats and agues with attempting to realise these visions.
From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace
No, don't kiss me, I believe these vile sore-throats are contagious.'
From New Grub Street by Gissing, George
Fohstr�m and Dotti sang during the engagement, but both complained of colds and sore-throats, and claimed that their singing was not near as good as it usually is.
From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.
"And talking of sore-throats, don't sit there in the draught, but take this chair, here."
From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James
The student soon learned the physiognomy of disease by going about with his master; fevers, pleurisies, asthmas, dropsies, fluxes, small-pox, sore-throats, measles, consumptions.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
