The old oak tree had a huge canker on its side. From LearnThat.org.
According to him, I was the canker in their midst. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I didn't mean to, Bill, but it's like a friggin 'canker sore. From Wordnik.com. [I Have a Feeling this Can't Be Good News, Either] Reference
Probably the most common is the Aphthous Ulcer otherwise known as a canker sore. From Wordnik.com. [Aphthous Ulcers (Canker Sores)] Reference
The canker is a very destructive disorder, and extremely difficult to eradicate. From Wordnik.com. [The art of promoting the growth of the cucumber and melon in a series of directions for the best means to be adopted in bringing them to a complete state of perfection] Reference
Unfortunately, crabapples are host to a multitude of pathogens, such as canker, blackspot, cedar-apple rust, and dreaded fireblight. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
They've got a disease called bleeding canker which is fast. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Threats close Pakistan schools] Reference
Page 237 body politic, there is a foul and deadly canker which is corroding its vitals. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Opinions of Julius Melbourn; with Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, John Randolph, and Several Other Eminent American Statesmen] Reference
And it seems there's a canker that Time will not heal. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic] Reference
Note exposed dead part of trunk showing old canker disease. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947] Reference
No outbreak of canker worms appeared in the spring of 1952. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952] Reference
And their speech spreadeth like a canker: of whom are Hymeneus and. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 62: 2 Timothy The Challoner Revision] Reference
It is defoliated by both the tent caterpillar and the canker worm. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924] Reference
The peculiar mottled appearance of the inner bark of the canker. 3rd. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912] Reference
And their speech spreadeth like a canker: of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
Mucous erosions, canker sores, little ulcers, etc., are produced in this way. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Another blighted at the base and I cut the canker out, but I fear it's going. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948] Reference
The citrus canker is now threatening the orange orchards of the Southern states. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
Dormant spray with "Scalecide" in middle April against the canker worms and mites. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
The surface of the canker is black and rough and covered with minute black pimples. From Wordnik.com. [Apple Growing] Reference
At the base of the blighted part a lesion, or reddish brown canker, is usually found. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912] Reference
The virulence of the canker, however, at last enforced the necessity of a resolute cure. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
Since that is true, the canker might enlarge later on from this same source of infection. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952] Reference
She had suffered from canker, indigestion, and diarrhoea for a year previous to her delivery. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Then came a canker worm invasion with partial or complete defoliation of even the forest trees. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924] Reference
The canker-worms and the destructive tent-caterpillars also cause the death of many fruit trees. From Wordnik.com. [Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation] Reference
A tall and beautiful No. 46 that had a bacteriological canker near the root has thoroughly healed. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943] Reference
And the gibe went again as a poisoned shaft to the wound that was lying as a canker in the breast of Stanley. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
They will have blight canker growth from 10 feet down to the ground but it doesn't go into the cambium region. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948] Reference
The last, that it is the canker and ruin of many men's estates; which in process of time breeds a public poverty. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
The fellow with the canker at his heart is not the battler but the envious shirker who is too "proud" to risk a fall. From Wordnik.com. [If You Don't Write Fiction] Reference
'Is as reputable a citizen as any that treads on the High Street, and yet for a' that he may hae a canker o 'the soul. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
Black walnuts suffer from leaf-spot, blight, or canker, especially in seasons when the trees have been weakened by drought. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943] Reference
His terrible acts were the outcome of long and earnest thought; they were born of his mental analysis of the social canker. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
I think those who are familiar with the apple canker will notice the resemblance, in at least one or two of these photographs. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference
Then the bad fairy, ugly little sprite that he is, adds a portion of evil, perhaps it is envy that eats the soul like a canker. From Wordnik.com. [Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer] Reference
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