For a week the milk-sick fever had raged furiously, and in the few hours free from delirium she had been racked with omnipresent pain and deadly sickness. ❋ John Buchan (1907)
The best things in Puck scarce rise to the dignity of Slob Snots 'milk-sick drivel in the Gal-Dal, while Texas has a hundred country editors pulling a Washington hand press and building stallion poster, who could write brighter things if they were drunk -- or dead. ❋ Unknown (1905)
The reason Dennis Hanks gives for this removal was a disease called the "milk-sick." ❋ Ida M. Tarbell (1900)
Sparrow were both seized with a terrible disease known to the settlers as the "milk-sick" because it attacked the cattle. ❋ Wayne Whipple (1899)
And with what unerring gift of prophecy could he foretell the long and husky droughts of summer -- the gracious rains, at last, -- the milk-sick breeding autumn and the blighting winter, simply by the way his bones felt after a century's casual attack of inflammatory rheumatism! ❋ Unknown (1883)
"And the milk-sick, they say the milk-sick is all over the Eeleenoy." ❋ Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1874)
In the autumn of 1818 the little community of Pigeon Creek was almost exterminated by a frightful pestilence called the milk-sickness, or, in the dialect of the country, "the milk-sick." ❋ John Hay (1870)
When the dreaded disease, known as the "milk-sick" created such havoc in Indiana in 1829, the father of Abraham Lincoln, who was of a roving disposition, sought and found a new home in Illinois, locating near the town of Decatur, in Macon county, on a bluff overlooking the Sangamon river. ❋ Unknown (1868)
Fourth, if it had been a vegetable which prduced the milk-sick, it would have been found long ago; for, to my own knowledge it has been diligently searched for in many places, by numerous people and not found. ❋ Richard Foreman (1849)
After the first outbreak the Baylor bullies of the lost manhood stripe and their milk-sick apologists held a windy powwow in a Baptist church, and there bipedal brutes with beards, creatures who have thus far succeeded in dodging the insane asylum, whom an inscrutable Providence has kept out of the penitentiary to ornament the amen-corner -- many of whom do not pretend to pay their bills -- some of whom owe me for the very meat upon the bones of their scorbutic brats -- branded me as a falsifier while solemnly protesting that they had never read a line of my paper. ❋ Unknown (1905)
'milk-sick' because the cows die, too -- and sometimes the horses. ❋ Thomas Dixon (1905)
Despite all the milk-sick drivel anent "ties of blood, language and literature," "community of interest of the ger-ate and gal-orious Anglo-Saxon race, 'ad infinitum, ad nauseam, the cold facts of history prove that for more than a century, England has been our implacable enemy. ❋ Unknown (1905)
I remember that year the milk-sick was so bad there was more horse-thieves than we've ever heard of since. " ❋ Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1874)
