"Catch cold" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... old is Santa Claus? Where does he keep? And why does he come when I am asleep? His hair is so white in the pictures I know, Guess he stands on his head all the time in the snow. But if he does that, then why don't he catch cold? He must be as much as,—most twenty years old. I'd just like to see him once stand on his head, And dive down the chimney, as grandmother said. Why don't his head get all covered with black? And if he comes head first, how can ...
— Christmas Entertainments • Alice Maude Kellogg
... smiles; perhaps he is thinking of home, and the butterflies he ran after when he was an urchin—they never come back, those days;—never—never—never! I think the wind veers to the east; he may catch cold;"—and with that, the man, sliding the head for a moment, and with the tenderness of a woman, from his breast to his shoulder, unbuttoned his coat (as he replaced the weight, no longer unwelcomed, in its former part), and drew ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 1 • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... raining all day and I got very wet this morning. Don't you wish I had caught some quite harmless sickness? When I didn't want to go back to school, I used to wet my socks purposely in order to catch cold, but the cold always avoided me when I wanted it badly. How far away the childish past seems—almost as though it never happened. And was I really the budding novelist in New York? Life has become so stern and scarlet—and so brave. From my window I look out ...
— Carry On • Coningsby Dawson
... loved his mother very dearly when she came to him at night to put him to bed and listen to his prayers. He would kneel down in front of her, in the warmth of the kitchen so that he might not catch cold in the unheated bedroom, and would shut his eyes very tightly because God did not like to see little boys peeping through their distended fingers at Him, and would say ...
— The Foolish Lovers • St. John G. Ervine
... indeed!" he thought, as he rowed. "Make the captain lose a passenger! If one listened to those walruses we'd have nothing to do but embark and disembark 'em. He's afraid that son of his will catch cold." ...
— The Marriage Contract • Honore de Balzac
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