What child now dares lose themselves among these rasping ghouls, whose shrouds come peeling off in leprous strips?. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Cork Report:] Reference
Or he can be me, and surrender to leprous self-pity. From Wordnik.com. [Bad parroting skills: Gene confronts a beast ... and his mortality] Reference
For the white leprous face of the sphinx was towards it. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
Dr. Cullen found it most useful in leprous skin disease. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Small grains are found under the tongue, as in leprous hogs. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference
Miriam, leprous from God's hand, might have thus looked up to. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
It was by the law considered as unclean to touch a leprous man. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
Raquel turned away from him, a tourist avoiding a leprous beggar. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
She smiled faintly, and then a tear rolled down the leprous cheek. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
He walked woodenly across the leprous field, skirting away from the. From Wordnik.com. [Victory] Reference
At the "dead line" fence between this and the leprous part of the island. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in the Orient] Reference
Here nothing lived, not even the leprous growths that feed on rottenness. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
A red-skinned creature with leprous eyes stood in the center of the circle. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Either acknowledge thyself all over leprous, or thou shalt not be cleansed. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
Therefore the Israelites waited for Miriam seven days, when she became leprous. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
I undressed mechanically, brushed out my hair at the leprous mirror, and thought. From Wordnik.com. [A Letter of Mary]
Nanahuatl, the leprous, and building a pyre, the victim threw himself in its midst. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
‘My dear, I look quite leprous, Max Factor pancake this minute, where can I find it?’. From Wordnik.com. [Tour de Force]
The large, lustrous eyes were untouched; but the fair cheek was one hideous, leprous sore. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
She reached out a hand to pluck at his sleeve, but he stepped back sharply as if she were leprous. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Evil]
The leprous person was, in order to avoid contagion, very properly separated from the congregation. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
And the Lord heard it and his anger "was kindled against them," and my lady "became leprous, white as snow.". From Wordnik.com. [Fair to Look Upon] Reference
And the famous Dowd Report on Rose managed to make its morally leprous subject look upstanding by comparison. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Lawyer: McCain Did Nothing Wrong Amid Keating Five Scandal] Reference
Above me towered the sphinx, upon the bronze pedestal, white, shining, leprous, in the light of the rising moon. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
They squatted there like two obese, leprous Buddhas, peering at me and gulping in the guilty way that toads have. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
It was a city of the dead, under an Earth leprous-looking with black spots where the clouds apparently had parted. From Wordnik.com. [Out Around Rigel] Reference
The sun was too low to warm the ancient square, and the leprous patches on the plane tree trunks looked worn, sick. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
Sure, these strange beings were odd-looking, with their imposing, bloated heads and multiple arms and leprous skin. From Wordnik.com. [Impossible Places]
They looked down at him for a few moments, folds of isolation membrane draped around their faces like leprous skin. From Wordnik.com. [Starfish] Reference
The leper gave him a rupee coin, which the beggar threw back at him, screaming, when he noticed the leprous wounds on his hands. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Nutshells] Reference
They were not touched by the contagion when they touched the leprous person; he, by his touch, heals him that hath the infection. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
With a rattle of bone and ivory, of tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl, the leprous-skinned warrior disentangled himself from Elric. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortress of the Pearl]
Perhaps the cure of leprous Naaman by bathing in the Jordan, and the restoration of the sight of the blind man by washing in the Pool of. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
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