1878 Official Guide & Album Cunard Steamship Co. 186/3 [List of Biscuits] Marie.

1888 Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. (rev. ed.) ii. 31/2 Biscuits..Marie..1s. 9d. per tin.

1906 E. Nesbit Railway Children ii. 27 There were biscuits, the Marie and the plain kind.

1919 D. Ashford Young Visiters vi. 50 He swollowed his tea and eat a Marie biscuit hastilly.

1947 E. Taylor View of Harbour xii. 203 A jug of cocoa and a plate of Marie biscuits.

1966 B. Kimenye Kalasanda Revisited 43 Though they sipped their tea, they simply could not bring themselves to touch a marie biscuit.

1972 C. Drummond Death at Bar i. 10 The old tea lady..slopped the fluid over on to the marie biscuits in the saucer.

1993 J. Meades Pompey (1994) 196 He just sat..nibbling his Marie biscuit and his top lip.

1893 L. C. Gray Treat. Nerv. & Mental Dis. xviii. 544 Acromegaly. Synonym: Marie's malady.

1912 H. Cushing Pituitary Body & its Disorders 27 It is doubtful..whether either the syndrome of Marie and [sic] that of Fröhlich would ever have been suspected of its long-secret alliance with an hypophyseal lesion.

1949 Blakiston's New Gould Med. Dict. 593 Pierre Marie,..described acromegaly (1886), also called Marie's syndrome.

1961 H. A. Skinner Origin Med. Terms (ed. 2) 264/2 Marie's disease. Both acromegaly and hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarth[r]opathy have been so-named.

1900 A. Church & F. Peterson Nervous & Mental Dis. (ed. 2) 427 Friedreich's type usually occurs before the age of fourteen; hereditary cerebellar ataxia, or Marie's form, after pubescence.

1903 M. A. Starr Organic Nerv. Dis. 705 In multiple sclerosis optic atrophy is common, but it has not been observed in Marie's disease.

1939 W. Haymaker tr. R. Bing Textbk. Nerv. Dis. 229 The Marie type of hereditary ataxia is about as unusual in childhood as the Friedreich type is in adulthood.

1978 Arch. Neurol. 35 55 We discuss a case of Marie's ataxia and the cranial computerized tomographic appearance.

1996 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 3) III. 3984/2 The category of Marie's delayed cerebellar atrophy was introduced to describe cases of hereditary ataxia with a later onset than Friedreich's ataxia... It is clear that Marie collected together a heterogeneous group of disorders.

1929 Q. Cumulative Index Medicus 4 63/2 Congenital hypertrophic osteopathy (Marie's disease) in relation to dementia.

1955 G. O. Davies Gaiger & Davies' Vet. Pathol. & Bacteriol. (ed. 4) xvi. 351 There has also been described in association with tuberculosis of the dog..a form of hypertrophic osteoperiostitis or osteo-arthropathy known as Marie's disease.

1987 Times 4 Dec. 10/6 Marie's Disease (whose scientific name is hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy) was first reported in humans in 1890, and later, more rarely, in dogs and horses. The cause is still not definitively known.