Sentences with phrase «deaths scurvy»

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It may also be a reference to a hardy variety plant which does not dry up in extreme dry summer but a plant that scurvies the summer and provide sustenance to life in hard times.54 In mystical Islam, the road to the stage of intimacy (uns) with God - for - us is reckoned to be lonely, for not many undertake this journey prior to death in a voluntary sort of way.

The whalers on Jan Mayen and those who stayed at Smeerenburg the following year quickly ran out of fresh scurvy grass, a factor that contributed to their deaths.

It's no different to the vitamin C which you consume in an orange, the same vitamin C which could save you from death by scurvy if you were a 18th century pirate on a long - haul voyage.

Finally scurvy ends with death due to the weakening and collapse of blood vessels.

Scurvy is nothing but extreme vitamin C deficiency which results in bleeding gums, madness and eventually death.

Even the «surprise» appearance of Keith Richards, as the scurvy father of Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow, has already been hyped to death in the advance press.