But what are you to do when the boys clear out, and--and play you such a scurvy trick?
It surely was a scurvy trick of Fate dumping me in the creek, when there's a bridge to walk over, just to land me right here, where you're handing up fancy dreams to a very chilly but beautiful moon.
You'll not play us a scurvy trick, and detain us, if we come?
Still we all retained our health, being amply supplied with lime-juice and preserved vegetables, calculated to keep the much-dreaded scurvy at bay.
Her name was Ciuta, but, for that she was such a scurvy bitch to look upon, she was called by all folk Ciutazza.
Messer Forese da Rabatta and Master Giotto, the painter, journeying together from Mugello, deride one another's scurvy appearance.
When I joined the Navy, lime-juice, the prophylactic, was served out under the regulation; but in the mercantile marine scurvy was still prevalent.
Scurvy virtually disappeared as a cause of death due to the eating of more vegetables.
Many sailors had scurvy or other deficiency diseases.
What with the game we already have on hand, and these three turkeys, I think we're in no pressing danger of an outbreak of scurvy in camp, are we Doctor?
Another thing they do in the lumber camps is to quit cooking their potatoes the moment that symptoms of scurvy appear.
Yes, excellently, and the plan was adopted in all the Canada lumber camps where scurvy was as great an enemy to success as it was on the whaling vessels themselves.
I have carefully guarded them against frost as well as against use, meaning to keep them all winter in case scurvyshould appear among us.
So an old whaling captain, with a sound head on his shoulders, concluded that the thing needed to prevent scurvy was for the men to consume the brine in which the meat was pickled.
We don't want scurvy in the camp and we don't want a starving time.
As I retreated through the wood the treacherous honey-bird flew out also, twittering as before, just as if he had not played me a scurvy trick.
Well, I never did think he was going to play us so scurvy a trick," exclaimed Jack, "or we would not have left the camp.
Geoffrey declared in so many words that his father had played a scurvy trick on all of them.
The fresh fish, too, assisted to keep scurvy at a distance.
Why he not send de ship to de bottom before dis I not know; but you see--he play some scurvy trick before he done wid us.
Tuberculosis orscurvy may be in an incipient stage, and may be overcome if recognized in time.
The gray sea-fogs played many scurvy tricks with the blockading-fleets, often letting the runners in right under the muzzles of the great guns.
During the summer of 1847, the men of the squadron operating in the Gulf suffered severely from yellow fever and also from scurvy brought on by a lack of fresh food.
Scurvy and the vicious forms of zymotic disease, which depend upon starvation and vitiated atmosphere, raged unchecked.
Vinegar, in the early history of war, was the chief and the sure reliance against the attacks of scurvy and malaria.
Scurvy seems to be prominent in the alleged diseases.
According to the same authority there were but eight thousand six hundred cases of scurvy during the first two years of the war, and but one per cent.
As time wore on the fresh meat was finished, scurvy became worse; and it was as much as the men who were not quite knocked down could do to attend to those who were.
Europeans get scurvy from lack of fruit and vegetables, but this condition doesn't seem to affect the Esquimaux, whose meat and fat diet does not cause them to have heart disorders, either.
Nevertheless here they suffered from scurvy during the winter as elsewhere.
On the body of one young man who died of scurvy Cartier and his officers, shuddering, made investigations, opening the corpse and examining the organs to try and find the cause of death.
During the whole winter the crew remained in good health, but in spring (March) scurvy broke out, notwithstanding the precautions that were taken, and two men died of it in May.
According to a statement made by a lady resident on the spot, very severe attacks of scurvy are cured without fail by preserved cloudberries and rum.
In order to avoid scurvy the Samoyeds often took exercise in the open air, and ate reindeer flesh, partly cooked and partly raw, and drank the blood.
As these attacks of scurvy did not happen during winter, but immediately after the close of summer, they form very remarkable contributions to a judgment of the way in which the Arctic expeditions of that period were fitted out.
But fortune, that had served me such a scurvy trick in saddling me with gout and a scolding wife, along with the wealth of John H.
Twas one of the soldiers who played thee this scurvy trick!
I immediately sent the boats on shore in search of refreshments, and made all the men who were not so ill of the scurvy as to be laid up, go in them; I also went on shore myself, and continued there the whole day.
When we arrived, all our people began to look pale and meagre; many had the scurvy to a great degree, and upon others there were manifest signs of its approach; yet in a fortnight there was not a scorbutic person in either of the ships.
I imagined some land to be near, and we looked out for it with great diligence, for our people began now to fall down with the scurvyvery fast.
He inquired how it was that the scurvy and fever should have committed such wholesale havoc upon the whites, while destroying less than half of the blacks.
It appeared that after the ship had been many days tossed in storms off the Cape, the scurvy broke out, carrying off numbers of the whites and blacks.
The scurvy had spread no farther among the crew, but there was danger that it might; and these cases were bad ones.
Those which reached his ports were almost unmanned, for the scurvy broke out during the miseries of the return home, and, as the provisions were exhausted, the crews died from actual starvation.
Thousands of men would no doubt have died from scurvy and want of food, but that was usual even with the successful naval expeditions of the time.
I was very much inclined to agree with the old man, that if our Greek friend had escaped drowning, and could discover our whereabout, he would be apt to try his hand at playing us some scurvy trick; but I said nothing to this effect.
