Infected

Examples

• This is the order of nature, to prevent animals being infected by their own perspiration. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Nations, bordering on the already infected countries, began to enter upon serious plans for the better keeping out of the enemy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They fumigated us to guard themselves against the cholera, though we hailed from no infected port. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I will not have this room shunned as if it were infected, at the pleasure of a child. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He desired to go; each day he expected to be infected by pestilence, each day he was unable to resist the gentle violence of Adrian's detention. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• When I enquired for them, the man to whom I spoke, uttered the word plague, and fell at my feet in convulsions; he also was infected. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Twemlow has before noticed in his feeble way how soon the Veneering guests become infected with the Veneering fiction. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• His blood is infected, and objects lose their natural aspects in his sight. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• There is a stain in the fabric of the Temple, deep and foul as that left by the streaks of leprosy on the walls of the infected houses of old. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I have infected everything I touched. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In reality we are witnessing a change of conscience, initiated by cranks and fanatics, sustained for a long time by minorities, which has at last infected the mass of the people. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Have Hartright's perfectly intelligible prejudices infected me without my suspecting their influence? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Neither can the soul, which is one thing, be corrupted by the body, which is another, unless she herself is infected. Plato. The Republic.
• To the very end of the story the divinity of kings haunted the Egyptian mind, and infected the thoughts of intellectually healthier races. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I MUST ask you--you must obey me, he persisted, though infected at heart by her own fear. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Napoleon was left in Egypt with the Turks gathering against him and his army infected with the plague. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To obtain attenuation of the virus it was sufficient to dry the medulla taken from an infected rabbit. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Material infected with the microbe is then placed in the test-tube by a sterilized platinum wire and the tube closed by raw cotton. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• And anything which is infected by any of these evils is made evil, and at last wholly dissolves and dies? Plato. The Republic.
• Noah started up without saying a word; for the Jew was in a state of such intense excitement that it infected him. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

Editor: Megan