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    Usa "scurvy" in una frase

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    scurvy


    1. of sickness and scurvy


    2. It's a shame because while men were capable of making their own sandwiches, a woman would have instinctively added a few orange slices and cleared up that scurvy nonsense in a flash


    3. reason you don’t hear of scurvy anymore is because the “cure” was


    4. that the individual with scurvy was lacking in vitamin C


    5. The name Ascorbic Acid is derived from the Latin ascorbutus meaning “without scurvy


    6. In the winter of 1534, local Canadian Indians provided Jacques Cartier with the cure for scurvy, which had claimed twenty-five of his 110 men, with more than fifty in critical condition


    7. Rebound scurvy can develop in newborns whose mothers ingest mega doses of Vitamin C during pregnancy


    8. Sauerkraut was often taken on long voyages and was what often kept the crew from developing scurvy


    9. In 1917 studies indicated that children who were raised on pasteurized milk suffered from scurvy


    10. Why? Because milk naturally contains vitamin C, necessary for the prevention of scurvy, and this vitamin was destroyed in the heating process

    11. It was also found that those same children were healed of scurvy by simply returning them to a diet of raw milk


    12. Sprouted grains contain more vitamin C than standard grains, preventing scurvy, and increase the content of vitamins B2, B5, and B6, while increasing the carotenes up to eightfold


    13. " Olin had also purchased a large covered earthenware crock of pickles, the "medicine jar of the Oregon Trail", being called that because it was noted that if people living upon extremely poor diets ate pickles they tended to be free of scurvy


    14. Olin knew also that cabbage kept as sauerkraut and tomato sauces preserved with acetic acid, which is vinegar, kept scurvy at bay during the winter months when fresh fruit was not available in many nations


    15. To further ward off the threat of scurvy he had arraigned for Mr


    16. Leprosy: A foul, easy to catch disease, appearing in dry, white, thin, scurvy scabs, attended with violent itching


    17. By replacing the hugely successful exploration of the new world of the Chinese armada in 1421 with Vasco de Gama’s paltry few trips in the 1490’s to India where he failed in everything he set out to do, and brought home nothing but scurvy and rats from other seaports: the stinking European version of human history covered up how the entire energy direction of discovery is towards the light: not away from it


    18. He said pirate things like Argh! and Avast ye scurvy scallowags! This last earned him a lot of strange glances, but Ingrid allowed it, until finally, at just after eight o'clock, his wish to commit social suicide had achieved for her its maximum number of cringes, and she left the counter to put a stop to the show


    19. "You are a stupid, scurvy innkeeper," said Don Quixote, and putting spurs to Rocinante and bringing his pike to the slope he rode out of the inn before anyone could stop him, and pushed on some distance without looking to see if his squire was following him


    20. "Do you think," he said to him after a pause, "you scurvy clown, that you are to be always interfering with me, and that you are to be always offending and I always pardoning? Don't fancy it, impious scoundrel, for that beyond a doubt thou art, since thou hast set thy tongue going against the peerless Dulcinea

    21. A pretty child I'd be! It's another sort of cat they must throw in my face, and not that poor scurvy knave


    22. herself, and all this by way of introduction to a most terrible, and scurvy


    23. At first - as well as he could remember - it was only a small pimple, but it had grown larger, with something the appearance of scurvy


    24. And all cried out upon it for a very scurvy word


    25. ” Scurvy was common


    26. Could I help it if he preferred me to her?” “Scurvy trick, hey? I’ll thank you to keep a civil tongue in your head, Will Benteen!


    27. He was fleet, too, tho’ I should ne’er take him to a Race-Meeting and let all sorts of scurvy Blackguards lay Wagers upon his Flesh


    28. Pope’s Hypocrisy, Daniel’s scurvy Usage of me, and Mary’s Envy


    29. “By special Permission o’ the Hangman,” he went on, “(which we paid dear fer, I’ll warrant ye), Martin an’ I were to dye together in the very same Cart, so after we had said our pretty Speeches, an’ been duly blest by the drunken Preacher, we climb’d into the Cart just as jaunty as ye please, kiss’d each other full upon the Lips before the whole Crowd—which, I’ll warrant ye, drove ’em wild—(fer ne’er had they seen two lovin’ Men, lovin’ in Publick before such a Crowd o’ scurvy Rogues no less!), an’ then the Executioner puts a Noose around each o’ our Necks, fastens the other End to that ill-favour’d Beam, an’ this done, he gives the Horse a Lash with his Whip, an’ away goes the Cart, and lo! we are hoisted up in the Air by our Ears!”


    30. (I knew the Prig that was pickin’ it fer a scurvy Blackguard; ’twas he that first turn’d me in!) But ’twas no Use tryin’ to warn the Victim in me present State, fer the Fellow could no more hear me when I whisper’d in his Ear than he could feel me ghostly Hand upon his Shoulder

    31. ‘Are ye ready to go with me?’ it askt, an’ then, as if ’twere the Master o’ Ceremonies at a Country Fair, it show’d me whole blasted damnable Life in Review! There was Wilderknoll, an’ me accursed Father! There was me accursed Brothers an’ me accursed Mother! There was me Cruel Sweetheart, damn her Soul! There was little Pranks I’d play’d as a Child—like stealin’ me blasted Father’s Snuff-Box an’ fillin’ it with ground black Peppercorns! An’ there were the Rogues I met on the Road up to London, an’ the scurvy Captain o’ the Grace o’ God—that wretched Slavin’ Ship


    32. It seems some scurvy Rogue hath pickt your Pocket


    33. How many Days had I been with the Witches? How many Weeks with Lancelot? Had I my Monthly Visitation just a Week before Lord Bellars’ return Home, or was it earlier? I seem’d to recall ’twas a Week in advance of his Arrival, for I remember’d my Step-Sister Mary asking me “if the Captain was at Home” and Lady Bellars rebuking her with the Rejoinder that ’twas a scurvy Way to speak of Woman’s Domestick Afflictions, and show’d a Want of Breeding


    34. “An’ where’s the scurvy Blackguard now?”


    35. How wise I had been to fix my Heart upon Lancelot’s Lofty Friendship rather than Bellars’ Scurvy Lust! Here was Love conjoin’d with High Ideals, Love which did not seek to bribe with Jewels nor play the gaudy Games of Coquetry, but Love which sought to join two Souls in pure Service to the Great Goal of Liberty! How could I burn such a Letter upon the Instant? I must read and re-read it until I knew its Contents by Heart! And so I tuckt it in my Bosom, promising myself that I should burn it ere long—but only after I had savour’d its stirring Text, not merely one more Time but sev’ral


    36. D’ye think ’tis easy to hear him whimper so and bear the Burden of the Crew’s Hatred? D’ye think ’tis easy to be Captain o’er a scurvy Lot of Rogues, a Parcel of Lazy Poltroons who’d as soon rot in the Grog Shops of the Sugar Isles as go to Sea and work for an honest Shilling? No! The Heart recoils, but the Head bids it be strong


    37. “We knew we could not make Madagascar or the Bahamas in a Tub as foul-bottom’d as the Hazard,” Horatio said, “so we put it to a Vote with these scurvy Debtors and determin’d we should take the first sound Ship we saw


    38. Still, did he see, as I did, the Danger of Rebellion by our scurvy Pyrate Colleagues? That could neither I nor Horatio rightly say


    39. I didn’t say, “As much as a scurvy, cheating prick can love someone,” but I did open the door to the walk-in closet and invite the real estate broker inside


    40. PIRATE FUN FACT: "Scurvy dog" - the pirate is talking directly to you with mild insult

    41. We are only a set of scurvy barons, risen from being flunkeys, but why I don't know and I don't care


    42. "As scurvy as you like; I have in any case plenty of money


    43. The greater number of genuine patients were, as far as I could observe, affected by scurvy and diseases of the eyes—both peculiar to this country


    44. She says, ‘Much need have I to carry out the slops for the scurvy beggars


    45. 'I don't care to be chambermaid to that scurvy lot,' she said


    46. I refer the decision of so simple a case to the sound sense of the American people, and not to that of "scurvy politicians, who seem to see the things they do not


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