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Another told how pitilessly Galahad had dealt with a fiend in a tomb, how he had cooled the well of lust, and how the castle of the leprous lady had finally been tumbled down. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
Here nothing lived, not even the leprous growths that feed on rottenness. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z
Their skin is thin and almost leprous gray. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
The dolphin was cold and a leprous gray-white now in the starlight and the old man skinned one side of him while he held his right foot on the fish’s head. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
The paint on the metal cross to which the warning is attached has turned leprous with age and the creaking threat hangs above the street like a multicoloured cadaver rotting on the gallows. 100 years of neon 2011-08-27T23:05:03Z
Depending on which European prognosticator one reads it's a black hole, a leprous pit, a basket case, a marxist junkspace. Calcutta: Two Years in the City by Amit Chaudhuri – review 2013-04-06T06:01:32Z
"A number of people came out of the woodwork, crawled out from under stones, all leprous and scaly." Christopher Meyer: 'I wasn't nice to everyone' 2012-07-01T18:59:01Z
Walter Nelson — known to his co-workers as Nellie — has the stunned appearance of a leprous Lazarus, newly wakened from the grave. Review: ‘Toast’ Blends Farce With Kitchen-Sink Realism 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z
When the play begins, Marie is curled up in a leprous looking chair, in a cocoon posture I associate with people stranded overnight in airports or bus terminals, forced to sleep in unsympathetic surroundings. | 'This Wide Night': Edie Falco and Alison Pill as Reunited Ex-Cons 2010-05-17T02:15:00Z
Is it too late to recapture some of the shock and thrill that caused horrified Parisians in the 1870s to perceive his work as “leprous”? Critic?s Notebook: Paris Rediscovers Monet?s Magic at Grand Palais 2010-10-05T01:41:00Z
Ben had no concept of time, but suffice it to say this meant his feet had looked leprous for a good long while. His adoption secret 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z
There’s something mordantly catchy about the chorus’s repetitious melody, and the lyrics are full of his trademark hippy phantasmagoria: “Temperature’s dropping at the rotten oasis / Stealing kisses from the leprous faces.” Beck's greatest songs – ranked! 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z
It’s a curious ceramic confab of smooth, terracotta planes and a leprous soft mass, rosy as an internal organ, and sprouting puckered tentacles. Arlene Shechet’s new sculptures are weirdly engrossing and crazy fresh 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z
You’ll never wash away that leprous lack of pigment, the guilty pallor of the white man.” A Hundred Years of Orson Welles 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z
He was no different to Christine Lagarde - another emissary sent out begging the world to help bail out his despised "union" without realising that in doing so he makes the "EU" look more leprous. EU Summit: The kiss of life, or of death? 2012-10-19T15:57:11Z
It represents her dressed in her royal robes, washing the head of a leprous boy, while around her are beggars and the ladies of her court. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z
Miriam, the virgin sister of Moses and Aaron, doubtless also an astral character, was secluded seven days while leprous. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z
He put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z
Marriages between leprous and non-leprous individuals are freely contracted, and the intimacies are not prevented by the fact of potent evidences of the disease. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z
They are found not only in the leprous cells, but also in those of the connective tissue running between the agglomerated masses of the former. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z
She had plainly shown him how high above his foul and leprous baseness soared her own simple purity. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z
He was accordingly instructed by the seer Amenôphis, the son of Pa-apis, to clear the land of the leprous and impure. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z
Every other party has been allied to some piece of rascality; every other party has been patched up with some thieving, larcenous, leprous compromise. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z
According to it the Hebrews are impure and leprous Egyptians whom Pharaoh had banished to the quarries east of the Nile, and made to work there, like other Egyptians employed in that task. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z
Between the leprous cells and the filaments of connective tissue but few free bacilli are seen. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z
Yet, when I sent my love to thee, Thou with a smile didst take it in, And entertain'dst it royally, Though grimed with earth, with hunger thin, And leprous with the taint of sin. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z
Marriages never take place with the offspring of leprous parents or grand-parents, but on the other hand the lepers and their children intermarry among themselves. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z
He had no brothers; I have no uncles, and no leprous relations except my father, mother and brother. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z
At the time of king Bocchoris, unclean and leprous men had come into the temples to beg for food. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z
Leprosy is probably an infectious disease, and its specific products are contagious—viz. the leprous cells of the tubercles, the tissue-fluids, and the pus containing bacilli or viable spores. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z
The servant followed the great prophet Elisha: then there came to him a rich man of the nation which is called Syria, his name was Naaman, and he was leprous. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z
The leprous face, the chasms where the eyes should be, the awful discoloured hand are revealed to us, the crawling horror of every fold of that alluring drapery. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z
The village where the family to which the stone belonged was living proved to be a leprous centre from which the disease appeared to be radiating to the other villages in the neighbourhood. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z
That the Hebrews are Egyptians, and leprous Egyptians, in the Egyptian tradition, need excite no astonishment; white leprosy was a disease from which the Israelites frequently suffered. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z
The islands have for years been the resort of the whaling-fleets manned by sailors coming from leprous regions. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z
Behold, there came a leprous man, and fell down before Jesus, thus saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst cleanse me. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z
"Unclean, unclean," her cry, as leprous sin With foul intent clasped close her shrinking form, And baned with foetid breathing all her soul. Elias An Epic of the Ages 2011-10-13T02:00:41.923Z
As this stone appears to have neither history nor malign influence, it is possible that it owes its name to its macular markings and its situation near a leprous centre. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z
It does not agree with the tenor of Manetho's narrative when we find Pharaoh giving over the fortified city of Avaris to the leprous Egyptians whom he had banished to the stone quarries. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z
These examinations have been carried on with leprous material derived from many parts of the world, and the results have been uniform. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z
Behold, there came a leprous man, and fell down before Jesus, thus saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst cleanse me. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z
An animal subject to the same leprous disease that infected their whole nation, is not deemed proper food. Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix 2011-10-12T02:00:42.117Z
“I have said to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister,” quotes Blake enigmatically, beneath this leprous dream of mortality. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z
The prophet told him that he would see the gods if he cleared the whole land of leprous and unclean persons. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z
The bacilli excite inflammation, and by a specific action transform the migrating cell into the leprous cell. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z
The old law commanded that every leper should go to the priest, and that the priest should separate him from men, if he really were leprous. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z
At the upper end of this bank, flanked by four leafless leprous palms, there rose a long building, askew upon its rotting piles, with torn tin roof and shutters fallen outward. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z
She shook a leprous finger at me, and leered mockingly into my face. The Coming of the King 2011-08-13T02:00:24.197Z
That the Egyptian tradition regards these Hebrews as leprous and unclean Egyptians is of no importance. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z
These are growing witnesses of Peary's leprous character. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z
If the priest accounted him leprous, and God's might afterwards healed him, that he should then, with a gift, thank God for his cleansing. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z
A leprous sinner wearing the robe of Christ's righteousness! The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z
The people are loyal to me personally--this I know, that were I to pass through the country as a leprous beggar, no burgher or peasant would shut his door upon me. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:29.790Z
A horrible chorus of guttural thanks came up from the leprous creatures, who awaited our departure before pouncing upon the acceptable present. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z
The serpent, rod, and the leprous hand, not being intended by God to move Pharaoh, of what use are they? The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z
If he were not manifestly leprous, he should then, by his judgement, be accounted clean. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z
The lines "The blue-eyed vampire, sated at her feast,85 Smiles bloodily against the leprous moon" give me the shivers. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z
The calciminer comes and drops leprous splashes all over the hallways and the bannisters. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z
Here slow decay with creeping finger peels The yellow plaster from the grimy walls, Like leprous lichen, day by day which falls, And, day by day, more rotting stone reveals! The Dawn Patrol, and other poems of an aviator 2011-05-02T02:00:20.747Z
Trusting that ancient orchard's sainted roots, Whoever of the leprous apples eats Shall feel his faith grow darkened with a gloam That filters heresy's corroding sweets. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z
First Christ by himself healed dumb and deaf, halt and blind, mad and leprous, and raised the dead to life: after, by his apostles and other holy men, he wrought the same miracles. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z
Come into the hovels of wretched, diseased hearts and leprous souls! Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-09T03:00:44.777Z
“Be calm, lord; if it had infected thee thou wouldst be leprous this moment.” The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z
A rickety chair, two hollow barrels, a plank, paper, pens, and infernally black ink, four leprously dingy white walls, no carpet, a cup of water, and a dry biscuit or two. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z
Against the black dragon's teeth, Against the pustules of a leprous skin He is the glaive and the miraculous sheath. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z
They had no more pity for the creatures tainted with Royalty than the Polynesian for his leprous kinsman—but they were comparatively few. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z
There are beggars, too; some of them very wretched—and leprous, I think. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise
Then ... let me but Seize her and shut her fast an hour within The leprous keep, and she shall write whate'er You order; then upon a vessel quick Be sent to Venice whence she came. Yolanda of Cyprus
A dull flat smell surrounded the sordid building with a leprous haze. Woman
Now the cab was bearing round to the right, and presently upon an iron railway bridge Michael read in giant letters the direction Kentish Town behind a huge leprous hand pointing to the left. Sinister Street, vol. 2
Lepis, Greek for a scale, whence Lepidote, leprous; covered with scurfy scales. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools
No longer an outcast, no longer a loathsome thing, no longer cursed with that terrible leprous disease, but going back to his friends rejoicing. Wondrous Love and other Gospel addresses
There were hospitals for the infirm and the leprous; the disease was not considered contagious. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine"
To you that have no living light, but dropped From a last leprous crescent of the moon, I owe it all. Two plays for dancers
It was under cover of a fog of leprous brown striated with ochre and acrid with smoke that Tristrem entered London. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel
Can you not see that she is fainting after the most cruel sufferings, and you all stand aside as if she were some leprous thing! Blind Policy
And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from thence. The Bible Story
In moments he was gazing out over a plain bathed in the glow of a leprous moon. Isle of the Undead
To-night I must bind afresh the wounds of the poor leprous Jew, whom the doctors will no more touch, and watch by him. Felicitas A Tale of the German Migrations: A.D. 476
Let him know that no wife    Would bear him a fearless child To hate and loathe the life    Of a leprous father defiled. Songs of the Army of the Night
I loosed my clutch as from a leprous wound, and the Indian gasped again for mercy. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas
But you and I, Gentlemen, let us thank God we are not officially barked about with such a leprous elephantiasis as that. The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence
For it seems hardly possible in nature, that the leprous spots should grow and spread on dry walls, made of solid materials. Medica Sacra or a Commentary on on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures
The Christian religion does not escape his leprous speech. Talkers With Illustrations
I want to dance in their white arms, and flee From Tristram's leprous soul that has betrayed And shamed me thus! The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature
If the figure-head at the pier-end, with its perpetual gesture and its leprous whiteness, reigned alone in that hamlet as it seemed to do, it would not have reigned long. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston
Another question I will put to you, that is to say: 'Which would you prefer, to be leprous and ugly, or to have committed a mortal sin?' Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1
For I have been assured by travellers, that there are two hospitals for the leprous alone in Damascus. Medica Sacra or a Commentary on on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures
In the street, where public decency ought to have deterred, I have again and again heard the revolting expressions of this talker’s leprous tongue. Talkers With Illustrations
And 'tis an awful thing when one's own soul Is leprous grown!—I loathe and hate him now! The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature
God, what leprous tatters of distress, Droppings of misery, rags of Thy loneliness Quiver and heave like vermin, out of the night! Collected Poems Volume Two
I saw the white face suddenly leprous; putrescent.... Astounding Stories, May, 1931
Strip off their leprous rags And twist their ropes around their throats and hang them High over the Spanish camp for all to see. Collected Poems Volume One
He was an old, leprous person, not quite all there, and affected by some awful disease or other which gave him obscenely thickened lips, horrible to look at. Letters from my Windmill
Let the hand of discipline smite the leprous lips which shall utter the profane heresy: All is fair in politics. Twelve Causes of Dishonesty
A Cesspool vext with leprous stench And oils—A sign that spells a curse! Betelguese A Trip Through Hell
Then the Lord bade him put his hand in his bosom, and on taking it out he found it was "leprous as snow." Bible Romances First Series
Meanwhile the car, scattering children, tooted, turned and stopped before a leprous door. The Paliser case
Used by nuns in Provence for ulcers and leprous eruptions. The Leper in England: with some account of English lazar-houses
As when they say, he who eats in a leprous house a half-loaf,720 of three loaves to the cab of flour.” Hebrew Literature
Vague dreams plague souls beyond repair, Phantoms, black demons call their queen, Skinks and owls whom no conscience storms Make faces at the leprous moon. Betelguese A Trip Through Hell
That "great cry in Egypt" arose from a people who were the first victims of God's hatred of all who stood in the way of his chosen "set of leprous slaves." Bible Romances First Series
This caused an exposure of his arms, by which it became manifest that he was leprous. Mediaeval Tales
The planet must be cleansed of that leprous form of life, else there would be no peace. Walls of Acid
Thus the Palace of St. James stands upon the site of a lazar house founded before the Conquest for fourteen leprous maidens. The History of London
And mildewed skulls and ashen bones That lie before each pillaréd mount, Speak tidings of a leprous flood. Betelguese A Trip Through Hell
And in the hearts of the common people a hatred for us, a disgust, even a horror, not inspired by the leprous Chinese. The Art of Disappearing
He earnestly besought his master that he might have the custody of a city for a single month, and receive, by way of tax, one penny from every crook-backed, one-eyed, scabby, leprous, or ruptured person. Mediaeval Tales
So under the thin willows' leprous shade And through the tangled ranks of riverweed I pushed—till lo, God heard me! Gloucester Moors and Other Poems
The tinea, or scald head, and a leprous eruption, which often appears behind the ears, are different diseases. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
Sanitary conditions there were most disheartening, as at least half of the inhabitants were leprous, and most of them suffered from tuberculosis or elephantiasis. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific
Beyond the sloughing and leprous tower of 94 Richbourg Church, where the ancient dead in the graveyard had been brought to light again, there was a house which seemed in being. Waiting for Daylight
With this rouge they wanted to tint their faces and to defame us, since they noticed very well that their affair was leaky, leprous, and filthy, and despite such deficiency nevertheless was to be honored. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
Most of the Christian lepers are Roman Catholics, though there is a small Protestant church in the colony, in charge of a leprous native minister. Wanderings in the Orient
The asthmas, which have been induced in consequence of the recess of eruptions, especially of the leprous kind, countenance this opinion. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
The Call building stood proudly erect, lifting its whited head above the ruin like some leprous thing and with all its windows, dead, staring eyes that looked upon nothing but a wilderness. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror
This leprous plague, this offspring of crowded and dirty tenements and of foul ship-steerages, seemed doubly unholy here in the clean sanity of the hills. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West
At Maiden Bradley, in Somerset, was a colony of leprous sisters; and at Witham Church a leper window looked towards their house. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England
On its site once stood a hospital for fourteen leprous women, which was founded, as Stow quaintly says, "long before the time of any man's memory." The Strand District The Fascination of London
He expected Elisha to come out, and that there would be a fine scene while he called on the name of God, waved his hand over the leprous spots, and made a cure. Child's Story of the Bible
His leprous flesh can never come again like the flesh of a little child. The Atonement and the Modern Mind
And, indeed, it is but quite lately that a conglomeration of tottering and leprous houses, without owners, and never entered by the police, was353 torn down. The Story of Rouen
He was not before 1179 allowed even a leprous priest to say Mass for him. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England
A large number of leprous patients also visit the baths. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
In either case a tainted, leprous thing—a woman to be shunned by every man who valued a dignified and wholesome life. The Tyranny of the Dark
A little leprous greyness filtered into the dugout. One Man's Initiation—1917
He walked woodenly across the leprous field, skirting away from the Earth ships, toward a collection of tents and tin huts that had swallowed the other veterans. Victory
And Durtal took up these words, and spelt them over in terror, thinking, "Ah! yes, we have sinned and become like the leprous, O Lord!" En Route
It is a kind that I detest—absolutely leprous scoundrels excepted—more than I can bring myself to detest any other of God's creatures. A History of the United States
"Be calm, lord; if it had infected thee Thou wouldst be leprous this moment." The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
On such occasions, his white teeth were revealed like a row of fangs, and his leprous skin grew yet paler. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War
Hour after hour there floated before her the fezzes and khaki-covered backs of the two leading askaris, trim, narrow, jaunty backs flanking the leprous shoulders of the albino. Sacrifice
A wild and leprous moon sometimes shone through the troubled clouds of scudding sleet. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century
None who had been leprous could be lawfully restored to community life until pronounced clean by a priest. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
His shoes behind the door turned a leprous white from mildew and rotted to pieces while yet they were new. From Place to Place
There is not a profession round which drink has not thrown the spell of its sorcery; scarcely a household that has not been despoiled by its leprous pollution. Men in the Making
It was a way of holiness, where no unclean or leprous person was permitted to travel. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.
If Miriam will lovingly watch the boat on the Nile, Moses will help her when leprous disaster strike. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony
Clay anointings were for the blind, quickened ears for deaf mutes, leprous healings for diseased outcasts, and recalled vital breath to pulseless mortality, responsive to human prayer. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898
In a frenzy of rage, I took it up as if it were some leprous thing, and dropped it in the fire. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
One of our towers sailing high, suddenly went dark, turned over, wavered down, dismembered with leprous missing parts—and then in a puff was obliterated. Tarrano the Conqueror
Where that settles in the skin, a reddish ring soon appears, and gradually widens, leaving a leprous white patch of skin within it. Papers on Health
The sisters appear to have been nurses, for there is no mention made of any leprous sister. Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London
Whatso girl would touch thee, we think her capable of licking the breech of a leprous hangman. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
The railroad officials had given Judge Thayer to understand, directly, that this decision had come as a result of the town waking up and shedding its leprous skin. Trail's End
Instead of this leprous forbearance which we are taught to practice in our intimate relationships, there should be the most intense open antagonism. Fantasia of the Unconscious
Diseased, leprous, gruesomely weird with parts of its interior intact and other parts obliterated. The White Invaders
The large, lustrous eyes were untouched; but the fair cheek was one hideous, leprous sore. My New Curate
And the Lord heard it and his anger "was kindled against them," and my lady "became leprous, white as snow." Fair to Look Upon
Once alone I stepped out into a small, overhanging balcony, that clung like a beehive to the leprous grey of the wall, and, sitting well under cover of the battlements, looked around. Orrain A Romance
It turned over in its sleep, the cover was hurled aside, and a grotesque object, round, pulpy, webbed, and of leprous whiteness—an object which Letty could hardly associate with a hand—came grovelling out. Scottish Ghost Stories
We could see where the enemy light had struck, partially melting off some of the trees so that now they stood leprous. The White Invaders
She smiled faintly, and then a tear rolled down the leprous cheek. My New Curate
He was met by the little leprous priest Koah, swimming halfway out. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward
For underneath all the natural beauty of Monaco Durkin had been continuously haunted by the sense of something unclean and leprous and corroding. Phantom Wires A Novel
That is the basin of Purification, in which will be the water of Celestial Grace, water that doth not soil the hands, but purifies all leprous bodies. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
This oil has proved useful when applied externally for troublesome skin diseases of the leprous type. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
Along a weedy embankment there pants and clangs a patched and tarnished engine, its paint blistered, its parts leprously dull. Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought
Christ loves the unlovely, the deformed, the loathsome, the leprous. Making the Most of Life
When the Lord sends the curse of leprosy or pestilence into a family, every one flies and shuns the abode of the leprous or the plague-stricken. The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After"
The Khatkan was more than halfway along toward that promise of solid ground which the tangled mass of leprous vegetation led to, zigzagging expertly from islet to islet. Voodoo Planet
In the same page the leprous corpse touched by the tender spirit of Spring, so as to exhale itself in flowers, is compared to "incarnations of the stars, when splendour is changed to fragrance!!!" Early Reviews of English Poets
Under flying moons the shaggy hemlock grove was like a bearskin thrown over the white and leprous nakedness of stony flanks. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
In this wide universe, wherein we are growing slowly up to Godhood, only the poor leprous soul, whitened with malice and hate, deserves the angels' tears. A Certain Rich Man
When Joe saw the moon beginning to paint the clouds with leprous hues, and the great ring grew wider and wider, he looked at the mainsail, and wished the trouble over. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary
The leprous scales fell off by degrees, and in the course of a few weeks the leprosy gradually disappeared, and the whole herd being cleansed, was restored to a sound and healthy state. The Children's Portion
Gentlemen, we all well know that, unfortunately for our cause and country, the evils Speculation and Extortion, had spread their leprous wings and covered our land with destitution. The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution
A few honest folk, with the gift of a second sight in such matters, discover their uncanny presence—leprous impurity, insane blasphemy, and the stony grin of unearthly malice—and keep aloof. The House by the Church-Yard
The leprous mouse had been discouraging; that was all. None Other Gods
Isolated cases have been recognized in almost every state, and leprous cases are presented at the public charities of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, etc. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
"I saw the serpent of my Lady's heart, Lovely and leprous; and a violet sigh Shook the wan, yellowing leaves of threnody, Bruised in the holy chalice of my Art." The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts
But the prophet instead of coming to him, sent a message directing Naaman to wash in Jordan seven times, when his leprous flesh would be restored to health. Mother Stories from the Old Testament A Book of the Best Stories from the Old Testament that Mothers can tell their Children
Women born in the purple are of the same stuff as the leprous beggar-woman who lies in the street. I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross
The heads of families who commit or tolerate such atrocities become leprous, blind, deaf or dumb, or are carried off in early life by some terrible disease. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II
The usual vehicle by which the disease is transmitted is the secretions of a leprous patient containing bacilli or spores. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
Against his brother editors he hurled such epithets as "loathsome and leprous slanderer and libeller," "pestilential scoundrel," "polluted wretch," "foul jaws," "common bandit," "prince of darkness," "turkey buzzard," "ghoul." Fifth Avenue
There, too, a leprous thing with treacherous, gliding arms crawled after prey, and at sight of it Carette gripped my arm and murmured "Pieuvre," as though she feared it might hear her. Carette of Sark
Overhead the elms were russet from a sharp frost, and the golden leaves of the sycamores shone against the leprous whiteness of the branches. The Voice of the People
No marvel though the branches be infected, When poison hath encompassèd the roots; No marvel though the leprous infant die, When the stern dam envenometh the dug. A Study of Shakespeare
These leprous tubercles choose the face as their favored site. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
Beware this obstreperous, leprous beast-- A treacherous wretch, for I know him of old. The Glugs of Gosh
Rome is the leprous gentleman, and Luther is the man of God who told her how to become clean. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
Small grains are found under the tongue, as in leprous hogs. Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
But the greater part of her loathing was that which a woman with a simple heart of nature must feel for one who hated her child, which the sound must feel for the leprous. The Judge
The child of a leprous woman should be removed from the mother after birth and not nursed by another woman. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
Out at sea the tips of the waves became capped—leprous white arms seemed reaching hopelessly for help from the depths of the sea. The Eternal Maiden
So he prays you will never brand His innocent boy with this his father's guilt; Nor on his broken-hearted wife look cold, As though his leprous sin defiled these poor And helpless sufferers. Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851
It is in fact a peculiarly rapid decay caused by a kind of leprous growth which nothing can arrest. The Keeper of the Door
To the river, every man of you, and curse your leprous, indolent souls! The Sword Maker
For years he had been shut away from men, a leprous thing labeled "Unclean!" Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West
It had been leprous since the Chinese came. White Shadows in the South Seas
Therefore the Israelites waited for Miriam seven days, when she became leprous. Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
Poetry has no business to build its houses on the waste and leprous lands of human 417nature; and less business to call its work art. The Poetry Of Robert Browning
"Who loves," says William Jay, "to take his meat from a leprous hand?" The Christian Home
Then just against the Harrow Road I made one desperate bound— A leprous lamp-post and myself Lay mingled in a swound! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 21, 1891
"First time I ever knew that leprous scandal-scavenger and black-hander to send a man out in the open to get a story." No. 13 Washington Square
Brunner felt his heart heave, then fall in upon itself like collapsing leprous flesh. Oberheim (Voices)
The starved, ignoble country in Childe Roland, one of the finest pieces of description in Browning, wicked, waste and leprous land, makes Nature herself sick with peevish wrath. The Poetry Of Robert Browning
He is a good man, but he is leprous. The Lamp in the Desert
The body is therefore very subject to leprous complaints, which are perhaps irritated by the use of the pepper-root water or awa. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14
Yet, when I sent my love to thee,   Thou with a smile didst take it in, And entertain'dst it royally,   Though grimed with earth, with hunger thin,   And leprous with the taint of sin. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
The masses of coral rock in the shallow waters looked leprous, the surface was so glassy that it fell in splinters from the oars of the boat that towed them to shore. The Conqueror
From his back-tilted chair on the veranda, the road was visible for miles, as well as the river trail from the south, sneaking up through the cottonwoods and leprous sycamores. Pardners
There was a rumour that he was leprous. The Lamp in the Desert
A beggar rots and grovels, clutching at my skirt with     leprous hands. Profiles from China
The most polluted plays that ever oozed from the poisonous pen of leprous dramatist have won their deathful power through the medium of newspapers; the evil is stupendous! The Abominations of Modern Society
Miriam, leprous from God's hand, might have thus looked up to Him without the camp. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
His best chance was to consider them as harmless passengers, so he rode on, and the beggars—for they were no more—held up maimed leprous limbs to excite his pity. The Brook Kerith A Syrian story
He saw the whole arm, and the hand was leprous.” The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
The sight of a leprous man, or of a demon-distressed man, moved Him. Quiet Talks on Service
The confirmed awa drinker could be immediately recognized by his leprous appearance. The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient
Never a shadow of compunction crosses the leprous soul, as he stretches forth his arms to infold the clean woman! Paul Faber, Surgeon
As dark settled down over the Sahara, the leprous patches of white, saline earth took on a ghostly pallor. The Flying Legion
We will mottle thy face with leprous spots and cover thee with old woman's clothes, placing a hump upon thy shoulder. Mistress Penwick
There are leprous streaks of lime-wash trickling down her plates for a sign of this. Letters of Travel (1892-1913)
I will lift up my head: in leprous loves   Lost, and the soul's dishonourable scars— By God I was a better man than This   That stands and slanders me to all the stars. The Wild Knight and Other Poems
Then suddenly a leprous sun beat down upon her and she tried to lift her arms to screen herself from its fury, but could not. The Blood Red Dawn
Here is the leprous spot of society on which we desire to place our finger. Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out"
A hump was fastened to her shoulder; her face was darkened skillfully and leprous blotches painted thereon. Mistress Penwick
For instance, when I got there, I heard the British being accused of "imperialistic savagery" because they had removed the leprous beggars from the streets into a clean place where they could receive medical treatment. Jimgrim and Allah's Peace
For to the blind, dumb, deaf, and lame, dropsical, possessed, and leprous, shipwrecked, and captives, “ipsius mertis,” as a reward for her holy deeds, remedies are conferred.  The Saint's Tragedy
Calder gives an excellent account of menstruation at an ankle-ulcer, and Brincken says he has seen periodical bleeding from the cicatrix of a leprous ulcer. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Then, quite unexpectedly—oh! what a start it gave her!—the solitary white object burst upon her view, leprous and ghastly as the yawn of a cotton-mouth. Chita: a Memory of Last Island
A kind of square of leprous houses, some of which are attainable only by crazy wooden stairs without. American Notes
He hastily wrapped up the leprous fragment of fish; he gaped as she trailed out. Main Street
And now that we have removed that charge, has she not with her a leprous boy, to whose necessities she ministers hourly, by day and night?  The Saint's Tragedy
In a few months the blotches left from this eruption became leprous tubercles, and other well-marked signs of the malady followed. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
"Let us be calm," I muttered to myself, and ran into the shade of a leprous wall. Falk A Reminiscence
For the white leprous face of the sphinx was towards it. The Time Machine
X For weeks, for months I have not seen the sun; The minatory dawns are leprous pale; The felon days malinger one by one; How like a dream Life is! how vain! how stale! Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
Have ye any that are lame, or blind, or halt, or maimed, or leprous, or that are withered, or that are deaf, or that are afflicted in any manner? The Book of Mormon
There were no signs whatever of a multiple neuritis nor of a leprous condition. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
For one moment I had a vision of a horrible mask like a giant toad's, of a warty, leprous skin, and of a loose mouth all beslobbered with fresh blood. The Lost World
Above me towered the sphinx, upon the bronze pedestal, white, shining, leprous, in the light of the rising moon. The Time Machine
The walls had a leprous aspect, and were covered with seams and scars, like a visage disfigured by some horrible malady; a repulsive moisture exuded from them. Les Misérables
And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow. The Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version
The letter, a white leprous spot, lay upon the dirty tiles of the hall…. The Beautiful and Damned
And that other more famous island, la Cité, where Paris itself was born, where Notre Dame reared its twin towers above the melancholy, gray, leprous walls and dirty brown roofs of the Hôtel-Dieu. Peter Ibbetson
As an indication of anger, the symbolic cloud instantly removed from the tabernacle; and Miriam, the most forward, and perhaps the first in this transgression, became "leprous, white as snow." Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I
In winter, torrents of water uproot the heather, leaving on the slopes a leprous, whitened scar, badly tinted by the too feeble sun. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
In the Hadyth, or sacred traditions, a saying of Mohammed is recorded: “Fly from the leprous, as thou flyest from the lion.” Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred
The result dangled creaksomely from her hands, revealing new wrinkles and smooches and leprous patches of starch at every motion. Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings
Hawthorne's clasping the leprous child was but a shadow compared to that hour, but happily Mrs. Stowe was not Hawthorne and she combed and scrubbed faithfully. Authors and Friends
In the rear, over some low buildings, you could see the leprous facades of several five-storied houses rearing their tumble-down outlines against the sky. L'Assommoir
The walls were gray, covered with patches of leprous yellow, stained by the dripping from the slate-covered roof. L'Assommoir
Blue above him, blue beneath, blue in his brain, blue everywhere, save for this dull leprous white beneath his nose—blue emptiness, calling him, clutching him, waiting for him. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea
Later a leprous old woman to whom he gave some food presented him with a magic saddle that would carry him through the air. Filipino Popular Tales
He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow. The World English Bible (WEB): Exodus
The leprous were apart; those that were poisoned on one side; those that had got the plague on another; those that had the pox in the first rank, and the rest accordingly. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
The statue is very old, and the paint is scaling from it in places, so as to lend it a ghastly leprous aspect. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series
Christ does not wait to be moved by the prayers that come from these leprous lips, but He is moved by the leprous lips themselves. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
She threw it to the old leprous gardener, and the two were married; but the king drove his daughter from the palace. Filipino Popular Tales
You may have your leprous flesh made 'like the flesh of a little child.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
His white purity was a great deal nearer to the blackness of the woman that was a sinner, than was the leprous whiteness of the whited sepulchre of the self-righteous Pharisee. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII
Art was a palace once, things great and fair, And strong and holy, found a temple there: Now 'tis a lazar-house of leprous men. English Poems
To such horrors may a woman sink, when she has abandoned the love of God; and a fair face may hide a soul "leprous as sin itself." Seekers after God
Many of them are plainly half silly, or wholly idiotic; not a few are deaf and dumb; others are crippled or deformed, and numbers are leprous and scrofulous. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter
If the prophet would have come out and chanted incantations over him, and made mystical motions of his hands above the shining patches of his leprous skin, he could have believed in the cure. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
The Saxons exclude dumb, blind, leprous, and such like persons from all inheritance, as we do fools. The Anatomy of Melancholy
The site of the palace was occupied, even before the Conquest, by a hospital dedicated to St. James, for "fourteen maidens that were leprous." Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1
They are my brothers, Frank, come out of Yorkshire To the tavern here, to ask their portions: They call my pleasures riots, my company leprous; And like a schoolboy they would tutor me. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9
The weight   Of sin oppressed her heart; for all the blame,   And the poor malice of the worldly shame,   To her was past, extinct, and out of date;   Only the sin remained—the leprous state. England's Antiphon
Many of them had a leprous look: compared with their already considerable volume, how small our little ship, over whose mast some of the icebergs already towered, must have appeared! An Antarctic Mystery
Besides, he had told himself a dozen times, there really existed no sane reason in the world why he should avoid Ben Gaynor's family as though they were leprous. The Everlasting Whisper
By 'the leprous corpse' Shelley may mean, not the corpse of an actual leper, but any corpse in a loathsome state of decay. Adonais
In that author's work, entitled the "Philosopher's stone," mention is made of medicine that cures all leprous diseases. Thaumaturgia
All do not appear to be lepers who are leprous The Hawaiian Archipelago
So the Lord proposed two other tests: the first was that Moses should have his hand smitten with leprous sores and restored immediately by hiding it from sight in "his bosom." The Emancipation of Massachusetts
They turned down a narrow street between grey stucco walls leprous with moss and water stains. Three Soldiers
The leprous corpse, touched by this spirit tender, Exhales itself in flowers of gentle breath. Adonais
Let the great host of the lame, blind, diseased, and leprous answer. A Day of Fate
But if he still Persist in his abomination will, Then fly him, 'cause he is a leprous man, Count him with heathens and the publican. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
This was a new thought to Dickon, though he had always known the stories of the healing of the blind and the leprous, and the birth at Bethlehem. Masters of the Guild
Basking at noon under the Syrian fans, While Naaman, the leprous mighty captain, Proud glowing flesh now silver-skinned and tainted, Walked in contagion here and there, apart. Preludes 1921-1922
Now she lies hideous with a leprous sore   No skill can cure—no pardon purify. Flint and Feather
Nothing had been changed in the cheerless room on the ground floor, with its veneered mahogany furniture and its yellowish leprous wall-paper, peeling off at the seams here and there. The Stillwater Tragedy
But I do care if you are leprous. The Beetle
All about them was a flat, floe-clogged sea, leprous and mottled in the deep twilight that midnight brought in this latitude. The Spoilers
Had she come back to me leprous of body and abominable of spirit, it would not have mattered. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel
And an indignant world, transfixed with hate   Of such disease, cries, as in Herod's time, Pointing its finger at her festering state,   "Room for the leper, and her leprous crime!" Flint and Feather
O thou base world, how leprous is that soul That is once lim'd in that polluted mud! The Merry Devil
Not the men who stand at the head of the one English profession which more than all others has escaped the leprous taint of that national moral blight that calls itself "respectability." The Woman Who Did
They found the sultan of the place, an old man named Kimwere, sick, emaciated and leprous. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Hauled stark over the gunwale he breathes upward the stench of his green grave, his leprous nosehole snoring to the sun. Ulysses
The breathing grew more laboured, the leprous eyes were clouded, the once stalwart frame was fast becoming rigid. Heroes Every Child Should Know
The leprous company of his sins closed about him, breathing upon him, bending over him from all sides. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ay, with red cautery and a burning brand Purge thou the leprous leaven of the land; Take to thee fire, and iron in thine hand,    Till blood and tears have washed the soiled limbs white. Songs Before Sunrise
The Jordan was running beneath our feet,—the Jordan in which the leprous king had washed, though the bright rivers of his own Damascus were so much nearer to his hand. A Ride Across Palestine
Dust slept on dull coils of bronze and silver, lozenges of cinnabar, on rubies, leprous and winedark stones. Ulysses
His theme was the story of the leprous man who dared to come to the Great Healer in all the hideousness of his disease and who was straightway cleansed. The Prospector
She is very ugly, lame, leprous, and foolish. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement]
Quoth the leprous woman, "As for me, I had a woman with me and imputed to her that of which I knew her to be guiltless, and beat her grievously; and this is my offence." The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05
How should aught move me Fallen from such tongues as falsehood finds the same - Such tongues as fraud or treasonous hate o'erscurfs With leprous lust—a prince's or a serf's? Locrine: a tragedy
He and his three sons are the four leprous men who informed the king of Israel of the precipitate flight of the Syrian host. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4
Goliath was stricken with leprosy because he reviled God; the daughters of Zion became leprous in punishment of their unchastity; leprosy was Cain's punishment for the murder of Abel. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3
Ah God, some prodigy of thine will stop This planned piece of deliberate wickedness In its birth even! some fierce leprous spot Will mar the brow's dissimulating! A Blot in the 'Scutcheon
He carefully called her attention to every leprous taint upon his neighbours' persons, to every rag in their foul clothing, to every slimy and fetid pool that lay beside their path. Democracy, an American novel
When the Lord sends the curse of leprosy or pestilence into a family, every one flies and shuns the abode of the leprous or plague-stricken. The Man in the Iron Mask
Then scowling Hate turns deadly pale, —Then Passion's half-coiled adders spring, And, smitten through their leprous mail, Strike right and left in hope to sting. The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
Thou who didst suspect them wrongly, put not they hand into thy bosom,…..and he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3
The leprous wall of evil, suddenly covered with blossoms, affords a pendant to the wreath of Juliet. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
The end of the room was rendered attractive by a tent-like cozy-corner built of savage weapons and Oriental cotton stuffs long ago become stringy and almost leprous in hue. T. Tembarom
But the tree was guarded by a hideous old hag, covered with sores and leprous scales, loathsome to behold. Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches
Mine was a leprous, sinful soul, child, when I came into Languedoc. Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...
Both Aaron and Miriam became leprous, for this is the punishment ordained for those who speak ill of their neighbors. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3
Not for restoration to health and fortune, not for any blessing of life, not for life itself, would she have left her leprous kiss upon his cheek! Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ
His words were unnecessary; I shunned it as a leprous thing. The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
Never did they chance to enter one of those nauseous dwellings wherein hunger, grief, humiliation, all physical and moral ills are written in leprous mould on the walls, in indelible lines on the brows. The Nabob
It was not as the fear which one has of a dangerous wild beast, but as the loathing which is inspired by a thing diseased, leprous, contagious.... The Yellow Claw
Two men once knocked at a magnate's door, the one being a friend, who had a request to make, and the other a leprous beggar. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3
Tirzah shrank from him, as if he were the leprous one. Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ
"Urge me not, mother," answered Hamish—"or put the leprous toad into a flagon, and I will drink; but from that accursed cup, and of that mind-destroying potion, never will I taste more!" Chronicles of the Canongate
No marvel though the branches be then infected, When poison hath encompassed the root: No marvel though the leprous infant die, When the stern dame invenometh the Dug. King Edward III
In another place the smoke was of an awful opaque ivory yellow, such as might be the disembodiment of one of their old, leprous waxen images. Manalive
If the figure-head at the pier end, with its perpetual gesture and its leprous whiteness, reigned alone in that hamlet as it seemed to do, it would not have reigned long. The Ebb-Tide
In parts, where the ashes lay dry and uncommixed with the boiling torrents, cast upward from the mountain at capricious intervals, the surface of the earth presented a leprous and ghastly white. Last Days of Pompeii
They would put their hands into their bosom, and draw them out white with leprosy, exactly like Moses, but their flesh remained leprous until the day of their death. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 2
Should he eat his words, may his body be suffocated beneath five cart-loads of books and his weary ghost chained to that of a leprous mule. Kai Lung's Golden Hours
A faint cry from Smith—and as if it had been a leprous thing, I dropped the cane instantly. The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu
The Lord now bade Moses put his hand into his bosom and take it out again, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 2
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