Sentence examples for yellow jack from inspiring English sources

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yellow jack

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The illness yellow fever

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For the next 300 years, yellow fever, given various names such as Yellow Jack and "the saffron scourge," was one of the great plagues of the New World.

Let a yellow jack or tuna rest too long without refrigeration, and you risk scombroid poisoning, because histamines accumulate in the flesh of these fish.

Buttery, velvet-textured hamachi (young yellowtail) was only one of three yellowtails on the menu, along with kanpachi (very young yellowtail) and shima aji (yellow jack).

It was one of many unwanted visits from Yellow Jack in the years after the Civil War — a plague whose cause was unknown but popularly connected to the exchange of infected bedding and clothing.

In Hollywood he gained particular recognition in the 1930's with his flamboyant dancing and singing of "At the Codfish Ball" with Shirley Temple in "Captain January" and by gamely battling malaria in "Yellow Jack".

All the while the workers died of whisky, malaria, yellow jack, dysentery.

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One is a hub that plugs into a TV via the standard red, white and yellow jacks, or via HDMI cable in a $139 model.

Yellow jacks (Carangoides bartholomaei) have been seen rubbing themselves against the hammerhead's flanks, possibly to rid themselves of parasites.

Composite video is a standard minimum type of connection, which uses a yellow RCA jack for picture and a white and red RCA jack for stereo sound.

Child 3: "Jack" Researcher: "Jacks?" Child 3: "Yeah, jacks".

He arrived as a curly-haired, yellow Beetle-driving jack-the-lad and is now a silvery grandfather who has saved scores of patients' lives and had a few brushes with death himself: Charlie's been shot, nearly drowned, run over by a stolen ambulance and has suffered a pulmonary embolism.

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