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Updated: July 28, 2025
If crimes did occur in this communist country it seemed to him that they would happen in bucolic surroundings far from the scrutiny of the officers sitting in tiny police boxes on every corner of this village capital, and that if his demise were to occur at human hands it would be no different from the Pyrrhic viruses and cancer that killed incidentally, or even the immune system which was a killer in its own right.
Everybody in a mining country takes a flyer, at least once. The experienced ones will tell you that nobody is immune. Take your own case, now: if you don't keep a pretty tight hold on your check-book, Mr. Colbrith, Cow Mountain will " The president frowned again; more portentously, this time. "This levity is most reprehensible, Mr. Ford," he said stiffly.
The critics had a severe attack of 'adjectivitis. Paul Griggs had first applied the name to that inflammation of language to which many young writers are subject when cutting their literary milk-teeth, and from which musical critics are never quite immune.
Entrances and exits disturb him not, nor does the human voice penetrate to the region of his dreams. To everything short of earthquake, explosion, or physical contact, his slumber is immune. Therefore he took no note when Miss Esmé Elliot came in, nor when, a moment later, Mr. Harrington Surtaine arrived, unannounced.
Negroes may suffer from the disease, but are usually regarded as practically immune. It was early observed, too, that the danger zone might be quite well defined and that outside this zone one would be safe. More than a century ago the British troops and other inhabitants of Jamaica found that by retreating to the mountains during the warm weather the non-immunes could escape the fever.
Proneness to evil is not the same in us all, for we have not all the same temperament and the same virtue. Two individuals may assist at a ball or a dance or a play, the one secure from sin, immune against temptation, the other a manifold victim of his or her folly.
"There is love, but most of us aren't aren't worthy of it. It is too big for us. That is why we get the cheap little stuff. It is all we are fit for." Miss Carlotta stared at her niece. But before she could speak Hal Underwood had claimed the latter for a dance. "H m!" she mused looking after the two. "So even Carlotta isn't immune. I wonder who he was."
I must be going," he said hurriedly, and, an instant later, he had bolted from the room. The doctor listened for the closing of the door. Then his face lost a little of its keenness, and he sighed. "It must be the very devil and all to have a conscience," he remarked at the four walls around him. "Thank God for one thing: I'm immune."
This parasite is to be found in several different kinds of native animals which seem to be practically immune but are always a source of danger when other animals are introduced. Two or three species of tsetse-flies are responsible for the transmission of this disease.
He knew what he would do if the situation were reversed, and he believed that the other was waiting only to punish him with a castigation of vengeful words before he shot him down and left him lying in the trampled straw and manure of that unclean stable. Now he had to brace himself against the tortures of a physical fear from which he had believed himself immune.
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