My brother James had been summoned from Cincinnati, and was present at his bedside, as was also Henry Stoddard, Esq., of Dayton, Ohio, our cousin. Stoddard once told me that the cause of my father's death was cholera; but at that time, 1829, there was no Asiatic cholera in the United States, and the family, attributed his death to exposure to the hot sun of June, and a consequent fever, "typhoid."英文原著 · 《Memoirs of General William T. Sherman-1》
Mother dead? Caught the cholera? Found out that you've swallowed a pair of hammered brass and irons in your beer? Say, who are you, anyhow? " But he could not shake this invincible glee, so he went away.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
Neil Singleton, after serving two years in a cholera hospital at Baghdad, had died of the flu in Dover twenty-fours hours after landing. Madge was in Palestine. She had been appointed secretary to a committee for the establishment of native schools. She expected to be there for some years, she wrote. The work was interesting, and appealed to her. Flossie 'phoned her from Paddington Station, the second day, and by luck she happened to be in. Flossie had just come up from Devonshire. Sam had "got through," and she was on her way to meet him at Hull.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》
Is blacking an effective remedy against hydrophobia? Against cholera? Against lock-jaw? And do you consider it as valuable an instrument as burnt corks in playing tricks upon a drunken man?英文原著 · 《Cambridge Pieces》
You would never believe it, but Sandy and I are growing quite confidential in a dour Scotch fashion. It has become his habit, when homeward bound after his professional calls, to chug up to our door about four in the afternoon, and make the rounds of the house to make sure that we are not developing cholera morbus or infanticide or anything catching, and then present himself at four-thirty at my library door to talk over our mutual problems.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
Honolulu--Reminiscences of the Sandwich Islands--King Liholiho and His
Royal Equipment--The Tabu--The Population of the Island--A Kanaka Diver
--Cholera at Honolulu--Honolulu; Past and Present--The Leper Colony英文原著 · 《Following the Equator》
Of course, we also have rampant Poverty and periodic outbreaks of cholera, So a little cardboard in our cheese is no biggie.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
Well, if it's not cholera Then based on a quick Internet search The other explanations in decreasing order of likelihood Are Hirschsprung's Disease, botulism, a 30-foot tapeworm Or accidental ingestion of chrysanthemum blossoms.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
For general educational purposes, Or has she acquired a bar stool dipped in cholera?美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》