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  • Robert Dossie described three categories of watercolor painting — miniature, the most delicate; distemper, which is coarser, uses less expensive colors in a glue or casein binder, and is appropriate for canvas hangings, ceilings, and other interior decorative painting purposes; and fresco. reference As a technique practiced by the Romans, fresco painting was a subject of particularly interest in the antiquity-obsessed eighteenth-century. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • At fifty years of age, he began to be grievously afflicted with the stone and nephritic colic; but bore with cheerfulness the most excruciating pains of his distemper. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
  • This paper will mainly illustrate the advance in pathological mechanism of demyelinating canine distemper encephalitis.
  • The walls were painted with a water-based powder distemper, usually in grass green or primrose colour.
  • Kamikaze died of distemper at a young age, and in 1939 Keller received one of his older brothers as a replacement.
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  • Giotto painted upon wood, and in "distemper" -- the mixture of colour with egg or some other jelly-like substance. Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People
  • The main cause for the decline of foxes on Santa Catalina Island is the rapid spread of canine distemper, which is transmitted by dogs.
  • The first thing that we shall do is to state, and which we shall prove in evidence, that this vice of bribery was the ancient, radical, endemical, and ruinous distemper of the Company's affairs in India, from the time of their first establishment there. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
  • Come a ‘chaste art festival’, then the distemper art rules the roost in major spots.
  • Dogs require vaccinations against distemper, hepatitis, leptospirosis, parainfluenza and parvovirus, and throughout their lives need periodical deworming, daily exercise and proper nutrition.
  • The narrator describes his successive days with Usher and his artmaking thus: ‘An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphurous luster over all’.
  • Vets are advising owners of unvaccinated puppies in particular to be on their guard for the parvo virus, or canine distemper, which can kill dogs in a matter of days.
  • I cannot but admire, that any should go with their distempered friends and relations to the afflicted children, to know what their distempered friends ail.
  • In Scotland likewise they have given themselves (of late years to speak of) unto very ample and large diet, wherein as for some respect nature doth make them equal with us, so otherwise they far exceed us in over much and distemperate gormandise, and so ingross their bodies that divers of them do oft become unapt to any other purpose than to spend their times in large tabling and belly cheer. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
  • The bedroom walls were distempered a dark, shiny green, the curtains were green with spots on and the bedspread an uninspiring khaki.
  • Shots for distemper, heartworm, parvovirus and kennel cough are a must.
  • It is the duty of every true friend of humanity and order, to protest against perverted sensibilities or sophistical refinements, which find warrant or apology for depraved appetites, -- for the worst distemperature of the mind, and the most fatal catastrophes, -- in natural propension, and unrestrained feeling. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
  • We know how much misery pain is able to bring upon the body in this life; (in which our pains and pleasures, as well as other things, are but imperfect;) there being never a limb or part, never a vein or artery of the body, but it is the scene and receptacle of pain, whensoever it shall please God to unfence it, and let in some sharp disease or distemper upon it. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
  • Oh keep me from these unsober, distempered, mad, unruly thoughts! Samuel Rutherford
  • In the predella, which is full of charm, are three scenes in distemper -- the Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple, her Marriage, and the Adoration of the Magi. Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi
  • And Hans was a dachshund who hadn't been properly inoculated for distemper and he caught it and died. THE OTHER DEVIL'S NAME
  • But I need not have used all that caution, for the old gentleman was grown dim-sighted by some distemper which had fallen upon his eyes, and could but just see well enough to walk about, and not run against a tree or into a ditch. Moll Flanders
  • The family room pairs milk-painted and beeswaxed wainscoting below with a chalk-base distemper paint above.
  • The Hamlet world's distemper, she argues, stems mostly from the way the generational/political life cycle has been upset.
  • And Hans was a dachshund who hadn't been properly inoculated for distemper and he caught it and died. THE OTHER DEVIL'S NAME
  • The result is spooky disco like this song and the absolute stormer "Are You Anywhere?" which is also included on the new DC compilation Death Before Distemper. Music (For Robots): September 2006 Archives
  • The disease was called murrain or distemper, and its malignity known, but not for a century was the cause ascertained and direct effort made for cure and eradication. A Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission for the Use of Members of the General Assembly Session 1913
  • Such a complaint I read of those isles of Cape Verde, fourteen degrees from the Equator, they do male audire: [1520] One calls them the unhealthiest clime of the world, for fluxes, fevers, frenzies, calentures, which commonly seize on seafaring men that touch at them, and all by reason of a hot distemperature of the air. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Faventinus, will have it proceed from a [2418] hot distemperature of the brain; and [2419] Montaltus cap. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • And they were at the source of the general social distemper. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • International concern for these extremely rare mammals arose after thousands of grey seals were wiped out by the canine distemper virus.
  • There are four clades that meet both of these criteria (74.2% - 99.9% nucleotide identity): the Sendai clade, the human parainfluenza-3 clade, the measles clade, and the phocine/canine distemper clade.
  • There were wall bookcases with glass doors, a few oak-framed engravings with a pale-green, "distempered" background, several chintz-covered sofas with cushions, and plenty of easy chairs. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl
  • And till that Spirit is given us, there is nothing but enmity and disaffection towards God; there is nothing but feebleness and impotence, as to any thing that is good; there is nothing but distemperature and diseasedness in man, which have pierced him to the very heart. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
  • [Footnote IV. 1: _Translate: _] Interpret.] [Footnote IV. 2: _In this brainish apprehension_,] Distempered, brainsick mood.] [Footnote IV. 3: _Where the offender's scourge is weigh'd, But never the offence. Hamlet
  • – They will not only ask what produced a scar, but they will insist upon knowing how long you have been troubled with it, whether the distemper is hereditary in your family, and whether you ever expect it will appear again. The Mother's Book
  • Will the insurer cover routine wellness care, such as inoculations against distemper, rabies and other diseases?
  • Nor is it merely wasted wealth or distempered conception which we have to regret in this Renaissance architecture: but we shall find in it partly the root, partly the expression of certain dominant evils of modern times -- over-sophistication and ignorant classicalism; the one destroying the healthfulness of general society, the other rendering our schools and universities useless to a large number of the men who pass through them. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
  • And they were at the source of the general social distemper. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • As I was working my way through this novel, a serendipitous but calamitous event occurred: strangles an equine disease also known as distemper infected a stable run by a good friend of mine. Firehorse
  • Paper was printed by hand using wooden blocks and distemper paint, which dried to a soft, matt finish.
  • The portrait showed a stern face and, yes, a righteous stance, but there was no hint of cruelty, no sign of distemper. ON A WILD NIGHT
  • I observe that the physicians in this country pay no regard to the state of the solids in chronical disorders, that exercise and the cold bath are never prescribed, that they seem to think the scurvy is entirely an English disease; and that, in all appearance, they often confound the symptoms of it, with those of the venereal distemper. Travels through France and Italy
  • It was a relapse of its former distemper, that is, of the bite of the mad-dog. Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699
  • + Hairs which have most amused me have not been in the face or head, but on the back, and not in men but children, as I long ago observed in that endemial distemper of children in Languedoc, called the morgellons, + wherein they critically break out with harsh hairs on their backs, which takes off the unquiet symptoms of the disease, and delivers them from coughs and convulsions. Letter to a Friend
  • In 1999 the System of Inspection and Quarantine for Galapagos (SICGAL) tied in other Ecuadorean institutions to start to control biotic invasions such as canine distemper. Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador
  • And if rain be evil and distemperate in its qualities, and discording to place and time, it is grievous and noyful to many things. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
  • These I would impute to the bad water, impregnated with the vitriol and brine of coal, as there is nothing in the constitution of the air that should render such distempers endemial. Travels through France and Italy
  • There was nothing in them to justify unbelief to a mind unprejudiced, undistempered, calm. Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story
  • Now, as we know that the sweat of the whole body is a sign of health, but the sweat of some one part only, shows a distemper, and therefore physicians do reckon such a heat to be symptomatical. The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast.
  • Of the hot weather that you mention, we have [not] had in Derbyshire very much, and for myself I seldom feel heat, and suppose that my frigidity is the effect of my distemper; a supposition which naturally leads me to hope that a hotter climate may be useful. Life Of Johnson
  • As you may recall, Obama's fans quickly established a reputation of acting like brain-damaged weasels or rabid squirrels or distempered hyenas or crazed dingos or foul-mouthed Philistines or huns, or other such creatures. Oh, My Bad, I Misunderstood What I Thought I Heard, but I Guess I Didn't Hear What I Thought was Said.
  • The second group, mainly a distempered and impassioned crew that just so happens to include myself, extols 10,000 Hz Legend as the band's true high-water mark.
  • Wash the walls down well with soap and water before putting on the distemper.
  • He painted in distemper, which produced a matt finish, and his gentle colour harmonies are very different from the brilliant or harsh hues often associated with German Expressionist painting.
  • The latter comprised three cooks to the gangs, one of whom had lost a hand; a groom, three hog tenders, of whom one was ruptured, another "distempered" and the third a ten-year-old boy, and ten aged idlers including Quashy Prapra and Abba's Moll to mend pads, Yellow's Cuba and American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
  • As for Bobadilla, he was no sooner come to Rome, than he fell sick of a continued fever; and it may be said, that his distemper was the hand of heaven, which had ordained another in his stead for the mission of the Indies. The Works of John Dryden
  • The portrait showed a stern face and, yes, a righteous stance, but there was no hint of cruelty, no sign of distemper. ON A WILD NIGHT
  • At Wissett Lodge, her rented home in Suffolk, she and Duncan distempered the walls a brilliant blue, and dyed the chair-covers with coloured ink.
  • The manager of the Orkney Seal Rescue Centre is playing down the significance of the first confirmed case of phocine distemper virus in Scotland, in a common seal washed ashore at Dornoch last month.
  • What some frenetical persons, in their distempers or under their delusions, have boasted of, no sober or wise man esteems worthy of any sedate consideration. Pneumatologia
  • “Be not in this distemperature for me, sovereign Lady,” said Roland; “this young gentleman, being the faithful servant of your Grace, and the brother of Catherine Seyton, bears that about him which will charm down my passion at the hottest.” The Abbot
  • I have had nothing lately to tell you but illnesses and distempers: there is what they call a miliary fever raging, which has taken off a great many people, It was scarce known till within these seven or eight years, but apparently increases every spring and autumn. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
  • Difficult political decisions should not be left to the snap judgments and popular distemper of public opinion, Hamilton wrote.
  • Here the scale of order and simplicity is first broken, and then what shall a distempered or distemperate life run to, more certainly, than to what is intemperate? Christian Nurture.
  • During Well Pet Month, for $40 pet owners can defend their family friends from diseases such as parvo (a puppy disease), cat distemper and rabies. The Gazette-Enterprise: News
  • A great inconvenience comes by variety of dishes, which causeth the precedent distemperature, [2937] than which (saith Avicenna) nothing is worse; to feed on diversity of meats, or overmuch, Sertorius-like, in lucem caenare, and as commonly they do in Muscovy and Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Initially the animals may appear healthy, but most die within days, he said, often from canine illnesses like parvo, distemper, and giardia.
  • Puppies between the ages of three and six months are most susceptible to the disease, although older dogs and other carnivorous mammals can also contract distemper.
  • International concern for these extremely rare mammals arose after thousands of grey seals were wiped out by the canine distemper virus.
  • I bashed and pulled the broomstick railings out, revealing the sawed off bottoms of the old balusters and a thick layer of paint and something undefinable (distemper, maybe) in between them.
  • Around 1910, a distemper-like disease reportedly struck among several smaller predators, the eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus, also known as the native cat) and the spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus), two species within the dasyurid family of marsupials. The Song of The Dodo
  • Even in my distempered state, that sounded damned odd. THE NUMBERS
  • There's phocine distemper that in Europe has wiped out a huge number of harbour seals," he said. Canada.com Top Stories
  • English, and the Scotch exceeded the latter in "over much and distemperate gormandize. For Whom Shakespeare Wrote
  • Sad, undoubtedly, were our case, should God be angry with a nation as often as a preacher is pleased to be passionate, and to call his distemper the word of God. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
  • “We ARE friends,” repeated the knight; and there was a pause, during which the fiery Saracen paced the tent, like the lion, who, after violent irritation, is said to take that method of cooling the distemperature of his blood, ere he stretches himself to repose in his den. The Talisman
  • Ginseng is cried up as a kind of panpharmacon against all sorts of distempers, especially of the venereal kind.
  • That by the extraordinary heat, the ferment of the blood being raised too high, and the tone of the stomach relaxed, when the weather breaks the blood palls, and like overfermented liquors is depauperated, or turns eager and sharp, and there's a crude digestion, whence the name distempers may be supposed to ensue. Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699
  • [2668] Herc. de Saxonia doth ascribe this to the several motions in the animal spirits, their dilation, contraction, confusion, alteration, tenebrosity, hot or cold distemperature, excluding all material humours. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • At Wesel, in the rear of all this travelling and excitement, Friedrich falls unwell; breaks down there into an aguish feverish distemper, which, for several months after, impeded his movements, would he have yielded to it.
  • A cleaning woman is tearing a strip off him; the patients stare at his barren, distempered office.
  • The kitchen gleamed from the distemper Dad had painted on its walls in contrasting shades of green and pink.
  • The spas, also, were claimed to cure ‘dropsy, jaundice, scurvy, greensickness and other distempers not to be mentioned’.
  • Your cat is currently vaccinated for distemper, rabies, feline leukemia and any other syndrome for which there is a form of prevention.
  • At the nearby Scott Base, seals are infected with canine distemper, a virus passed to them by researchers' dogs.
  • That these were actually cases of scarlatina was rendered certain by two servants in the family falling ill at the same time with the distemper, who had been exposed to the infection with the young ladies. On Vaccination Against Smallpox
  • I am sorry to hear that he grows every day more froward, and with such a kind of morosity, that doth either argue a great discontent in mind, or a distemper of humours in his body. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
  • For example, parvovirus, distemper and rabies are diseases that can be vaccinated against.
  • Such a complaint I read of those isles of Cape Verde, fourteen degrees from the Equator, they do male audire: [1520] One calls them the unhealthiest clime of the world, for fluxes, fevers, frenzies, calentures, which commonly seize on seafaring men that touch at them, and all by reason of a hot distemperature of the air. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • I kep 'on linger'n' 'roun' sorter keepin 'one eye on the rheumatiz an' de udder on de distemper, twel, bimeby, I begin fer ter feel de trestle-wuk give way, an 'den I des know'd dat I wuz gwineter gitter racket. Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings
  • So where zeal reaches to every command of God alike, that is a sign of a sound constitution of soul; but where it is partial, where a man is hot in one part, and cold in another, that is symptomatical of some inward spiritual distemper. The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast.
  • Though researchers are busy working on vaccines for plague and canine distemper, such tools are still a long way off.
  • [2137] Hercules de Saxonia calls this kind of melancholy (ab agitatione spirituum) by a peculiar name, it comes from the agitation, motion, contraction, dilatation of spirits, not from any distemperature of humours, and produceth strong effects. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • No treatment other than supportive care exists for canine distemper.
  • I have lately had the epidemical distemper; I don't mean poverty, but that cold which they call the influenza, and which made its first appearance in London; [52] whether it came to Scotland in the wagon, or travelled with a companion in a post-chaise, is quite uncertain. Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica
  • In the 19th century, green verditer was used for both distemper and oil based interior house paints.
  • 'And the said examinant further stated that she being troubled at her child's distemper did go to a certain person named Doctor Job Jacob, who lived at The Superstitions of Witchcraft
  • The latest outbreak of phocine distemper virus has already killed more than 1,500 seals in other parts of Britain.
  • The walls were cream distempered, and the paint was grey. In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs
  • At the heart of the book is James's description of the democratic temperament, which I take to be a healthy corrective to the distemper that characterizes so much of politics today.
  • Empirical study of behavior can help prevent disease in species of conservation concern like phocine distemper in grey seals.
  • Also, some swaths of the re-entry sites have been hit with canine distemper and the sylvatic plague, though newly introduced ferrets are vaccinated for both diseases. KansasCity.com: Front Page
  • If [2622] no symptoms appear about the stomach, nor the blood be misaffected, and fear and sorrow continue, it is to be thought the brain itself is troubled, by reason of a melancholy juice bred in it, or otherwise conveyed into it, and that evil juice is from the distemperature of the part, or left after some inflammation, thus far Piso. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Puppies should be vaccinated against distemper, infectious hepatitis, leptospirosis, parvovirus, parainfluenza and rabies.
  • We see the common quarrelings, that are ordinary with us, for taking of the wall, precedency, and the like, which though toys in themselves, and things of no moment, yet they cause many distempers, much heart-burning amongst us. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • The narrator describes his successive days with Usher and his artmaking thus: ‘An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphurous luster over all’.
  • Blue bice was used in watercolors and distemper during the 17th and 18th centuries. Our blue bice is made according to an English recipe of the 18th century.
  • Saw I him so touched with anger, so distempered.
  • It's the usual deranged and distempered prose, except there's something rather amusing this time: Richard throws in a few rants about ‘mini nukes’.
  • At the nearby Scott Base, seals are infected with canine distemper, a virus passed to them by researchers' dogs.
  • In the predella, which is very beautiful, and painted by him likewise in distemper, he depicted S. Francis receiving the S.igmata; S. Anthony of Padua, who, in order to convert some heretics, performs the miracle of the Ass, which makes obeisance before the sacred Host; and S. Bernardino of S.ena, who is preaching to the people of his city on the Piazza de 'S.gnori. Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi
  • The canine distemper virus causes a highly contagious disease in dogs known as distemper.
  • The rolls thus formed are laid out on a table where they are painted with a coat of ground color of distemper.
  • I could wish, indeed, that the word scold might be changed for some more gentle term, of equal signification; because I am convinced, that the very name is as offensive to female ears, as the effects of that incurable distemper are to the ears of the men; which, to be sure, is inexpressible. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
  • In due course he got through the distemper without accident, but for fear of chills he continued to wear the chechia and monk's dress in the house some time after his recovery, and he was so discovered by Mr. and Mrs. Mark Pattison when they paid us an unexpected visit. Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • I have endeavoured in these distemperate times to hold up my spirits, and to steer them steadily. Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.
  • His testiness reminded me that when Socrates was booted by a distemperate donkey, he thought it improper to return the kick! Tcpalm.com Stories
  • Because canine distemper also affects wildlife populations, contact between wild and domestic canids may facilitate spread of the virus.
  • The ways and means whereby we may fail, and do so in this kind, when not under the actual conduct of the Spirit of God, -- that is, when our own natural and distempered affections do immix themselves in our supplications, -- are, innumerable. Pneumatologia
  • This species is also susceptible to a variety of diseases such as distemper, which is controlled in domestic dogs.
  • Many of the artists, most particularly Vuillard, painted these in distemper and left them unlined and unvarnished, making them more fragile than oils on canvas.
  • The heart alters the countenance to good or evil, and distraction of the mind causeth distemperature of the body. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • They were carried off by malaria, cholera, typhus, heat stroke, agues and tropical distempers, and drink, lots of drink.
  • Besides the scourge of small-pox, the colonists were afflicted grievously with other malignant distempers, -- fatal throat diseases, epidemic influenzas, putrid fevers, terrible fluxes; and as the art of sanitation was absolutely disregarded and almost unknown, as drainage there was none, and the notion of disinfection was in feeble infancy, we cannot wonder that the death-rates were high. Customs and Fashions in Old New England
  • On exactly the same grounds, would we bid our readers avoid works of distempered excitement; even when such are of the highest excellence in their class, as those of Ellis Bell and Good heavens--whatever have I done to my students?
  • Another reason for stalemate (or decline, as the case may be) in the stock market is the political distemper created by the major political parties.
  • Pups Naan and Madras have been saved by marine specialists from the phocine distemper outbreak, which has killed about 3,680 seals since it returned to English shores this summer, according to the RSPCA.
  • He started walking farther up the beach, toward the Liquidora, a circling, chaotic eddy of currents the locals avoided and which was particularly distempered this evening. Kook
  • He was Chiefly a frescoist, following principally the process of distemper (tempera). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • My long years of Experience in Bedlam, and Acquaintance with the Causes of most Distempers of the Brain & Spirit, have well-prepar'd me for such an Office. Why did Eric Alterman stop doing Bloggingheads?
  • It lay there in a wide distempered circle and then gathered itself together to jam at my feet and to giggle and to whee, and to laugh and to fall again into a puddle and to flatten out like pancake batter on a griddle...flat, but gelatin like, to pull in and regroup and to come at me again. Burt Reynolds, the pig, and me.
  • But this adventitious melancholy which is here meant, is caused of a hot and dry distemperature, as [2435] Damascen the Arabian lib. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • My distemper was a pleurisy, which very nearly carried me off. Paras. 101-150
  • The horse “had a defluxion from the nose at the time of the bargain,” but McFarland “assured Newman it was no more than the ordinary distemper to which colts are subject.” A History of American Law
  • We use camlin water colour for fine painting and distemper in general.
  • But his pictures of nature are fine only as imaging the dreaminess, and obscurity, and confusion of distempered sleep; while all his agents pass before our eyes like shadows, and only impress and affect us with a phantasmagorial splendour. Famous Reviews
  • Sin is like many other distempers, that put the mouth out of taste so as to disenable it from distinguishing good and wholesome food from bad.
  • Ercole, then, who was a better draughtsman than Costa, painted, below the panel executed by Lorenzo in the Chapel of S. Vincenzio in S. Petronio, certain scenes in distemper with little figures, so well and with so beautiful and good a manner, that it is scarcely possible to see anything better, or to imagine the labour and diligence that Ercole put into the work: and thus the predella is a much better painting than the panel. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 03 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna
  • April had always seemed to be one of the most miserable months in the calender to her'the weather was hideously distempered, changing every few moments, and all of the changes unpleasant. Red dust
  • Abundant expression of all viral protein mRNAs and reduced or lacking protein translation, especially of the matrix protein, were the most important findings, indicating that restricted virus infection in the grey matter might represent a mechanism for viral persistence in distemper polioencephalitis.
  • I kep 'on linger'n' 'roun' sorter keepin 'one eye on de rheumatiz an' de udder on de distemper, twel, bimeby, I begin fer ter feel de trestle-wuk give way, an 'den I des know'd dat I wuz gwineter gitter racket. Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser
  • In Scotland likewise they have given themselves (of late years to speak of) unto very ample and large diet, wherein as for some respect nature doth make them equal with us, so otherwise they far exceed us in over much and distemperate gormandise, and so ingross their bodies that divers of them do oft become unapt to any other purpose than to spend their times in large tabling and belly cheer. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
  • Puppies should be vaccinated against distemper, infectious hepatitis, leptospirosis, parvovirus, parainfluenza and rabies.
  • Some illnesses that are common among house pets - such as distemper, canine parvovirus, and heartworms - can't be transmitted to humans.
  • The walls were painted with a water-based powder distemper, usually in grass green or primrose colour.
  • Similar eruptions, but distributed less generally, about the size of a silver dollar, may occur as a symptom of dourine, or colt distemper. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

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