"Bubonic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... head-hunting savages ten years ago. Above all other things in the Philippines we have proved, as we have shown at Panama, that a tropical climate need not be an unhealthful one. We have banished from Manila cholera, yellow fever and bubonic plague—three pests that once made it dreaded in the Orient. This, with an ample water supply, is an achievement worthy of pride, when one contrasts it with the unsanitary sewerage ...
— The Critic in the Orient • George Hamlin Fitch
... door, which I photographed, I counted no less than forty-nine circles. But I was unable to gauge personally with any sort of accuracy the nature or extent of the disease, beyond seeing in the hospitals a few violent cases of bubonic attacks. ...
— In the Forbidden Land • Arnold Henry Savage Landor
... two different signals up. They read, Bubonic plague, give me a wide berth. Am coming ...
— Where the Blue Begins • Christopher Morley
... of war had been increased by the deadly bubonic plague which appeared in Europe early in 1348. In April it had reached Florence; by August it was devastating France and Germany; it then spread over England from the southwest northward, attacking every part ...
— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson |
