The kinds of pitsand are these: black, gray, red, and carbuncular. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
The organ is much shrunken and presents rough, uneven edges, with carbuncular non-suppurative sores. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
In coarse grained gravel and carbuncular sand the supply is surer and more lasting, and it has a good taste. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Also maybe there is someone who is equivalent to La Toynbe in general smugness, what about the vile carbuncular growth that is Balls?. From Wordnik.com. [Labour Pains] Reference
Four hundred years ago you landed in the Tropic of Capricorn on the carbuncular plank of ships steered by dark stars the pale beetle of the seas. From Wordnik.com. [[Jose] Oswald de [Souza] Andrade] Reference
Just as Mr. Eugenides is not a Phoenician sailor, and Tiresias is not a young man carbuncular, so also the Lady of Ash Wednesday II is not the "veiled sister" of section V. From Wordnik.com. [Eliot's 'Headland'] Reference
The Tuscan stone is softer in quality than tufa but harder than earth, and being thoroughly kindled by the violent heat from below, the result is the production in some places of the kind of sand called carbuncular. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
If he had turned those stomachs wrong side out and gazed upon their inner walls through that opera-glass with which he has been looking so intently lately upon Mrs. Langtry, he would have found that there was not even the undigested corner of a carbuncular potato to stop the pyloric orifice; he would have found upon those inner walls not a morsel of those things which perish with using. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference
Yes, but it's better than dangerously carbuncular. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
He was suffering severely from a carbuncular boil on the thigh, which he refused to have properly opened. From Wordnik.com. [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference
It consists of a flat carbuncular or kerion-like inflammation, somewhat elevated, and usually a dime to silver dollar in area. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
When people typed the name into Google, the search engine auto-corrected the made-up word "Narbacular" to one more associated with skin infections: "carbuncular.". From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
A more severe staphylococcal infection may give rise to a carbuncular swelling with great œdema, and lead to infective phlebitis of the facial vein and general septicæmia. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
He returned more distempered, and fell into a succession of boils, fevers, and St. Anthony's fire -- indeed, I think, into such a carbuncular state of blood as carried off my brother. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
It appears that buboes and inflammatory boils did not at first appear, but the disease in the form of carbuncular affection of the lungs (anthrax artigen) caused the fatal issue before the other symptoms developed. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Although most of Swiveller's quotations are from songs, he does not always confine himself to them, as for instance, when he sticks his fork into a large carbuncular potato and reflects that 'Man wants but little here below,' which seems to show that in his quieter moments he had studied Goldsmith's Hermit. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Dickens and Music]
If he was a carbuncular 17-year - old. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2000] Reference
A large carbuncular potato, ‘be the worst of our lives!. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Curiosity Shop] Reference
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives. From Wordnik.com. [The Waste Land] Reference
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