Adjective : a carbuncled ring. From Dictionary.com.
Let us, then, try to forget the carbuncled nose, the snuffy waistcoat, the unorthodox sneer. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
He had indeed all the outward signs of a sot; a sleepy eye, a rubicund face, and carbuncled nose. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
The bar-owner with carbuncled cheeks had known him for years and the final edition of the paper was spread out in front of him. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Little Joke]
He was about fifty years of age, with a carbuncled countenance, high but narrow forehead, grey eyebrows, and small, malignant grey eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
While at that work, Jarvis exclaimed, "I shall secure him to a nicety, if I am so fortunate as to get plaster enough for his carbuncled nose.". From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
His aunt took him to see Dr. Ignacio Sebrango, a pulmonary specialist with carbuncled arms, who said that Enrique's condition was psychological and had nothing to do with the excellent health of his lungs. From Wordnik.com. [‘A Handbook to Luck’] Reference
We aim to create a real space for discussing, engaging and enjoying perhaps occasionally even campaigning for the multilayered complexities of a city that is comfortable to wear its carbuncled heart on its sleeve. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
The Administration and the Congress have a responsibility to negotiate legislation, and we can only hope it isn't carbuncled to a point that makes it impossible for Treasury to hold a decent mortgage-backed securities auction, or allow markets to clear. From Wordnik.com. [The Candidates Vote 'Present'] Reference
On a clear day she could even make out the great Metropolis to the south, a kingdom she had read was crafted entirely from a million glittering shards of glass, a translucent spectacle that was the new wonder of the civilised world, a world away from her gnarly, carbuncled mountains, with sturdy rock pigeons the only neighbours of her craggy roost, resplendent in their iridescent blue and purple coats. From Wordnik.com. [an urban fairy story - the new gothic?] Reference
It was not a nose snubbed at the extremity, gross, heavy, or carbuncled, or fluting. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob Faithful] Reference
He had a great mulberry-coloured face, a big, carbuncled nose, fierce eyes, and a grim and brutal mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle] Reference
Paine, foreign Benefactor of the Species, with that 'red carbuncled face, and the black beaming eyes;' Herault de Sechelles. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Disgust and edacity; laziness that cannot rest; futile ambition, revenge, non-admiralship: -- O, within that carbuncled skin what a confusion of confusions sits bottled!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
A Christmas Tale - there's even a sage in Abel, a man so homely and carbuncled that even he calls himself an "old toad" - but the tone is one of palate-cleansing astringency. From Wordnik.com. [AltWeeklies.com Site Feed] Reference
Nay next we behold carbuncled swollen Jourdan himself shew copper-face, with sabre and four pistols; affecting to talk high: engaging, meanwhile, to surrender the Castle that instant. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
And when he suggested in a whisper that perhaps the circumstance need not be mentioned to Mrs. Masters, Nickem winked again and put his fore-finger to the side of his big carbuncled nose. From Wordnik.com. [The American Senator] Reference
Tiberius makes a long speech glorifying himself; a parasite named Serybil flatters him on his good looks, and he in return blesses Serybil's face, which was probably carbuncled as richly as Corporal Bardolph's. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England] Reference
Now and then you might see the curious puzzled face of some greenhorn about town, or perhaps a Cantab; and men of grave age, and grayhaired, were there, and amongst them a wondrous proportion of carbuncled faces and bottle-noses. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
Through whose shaggy beetle-brows, and rough-hewn, seamed, carbuncled face, there look natural ugliness, small-pox, incontinence, bankruptcy, -- and burning fire of genius; like comet-fire glaring fuliginous through murkiest confusions?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
A small figure opened it within, meanly dressed, having an old top-coat, without an under one; a dirty silk handkerchief loosely thrown around his neck, a long beard of more than a week's growth, a face well carbuncled as the setting sun, and the whole figure staggering under a load of inebriation. From Wordnik.com. [The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816] Reference
A parasite named Serybil flatters him on his good looks, and he in return blesses Serybil's face, which was probably carbuncled as richly as Corporal Bardolph's. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters]
He has deserved it, were it carbuncled. From Wordnik.com. [Antony and Cleopatra] Reference
He has deservd it, were it carbuncled. From Wordnik.com. [Act IV. Scene VIII. Antony and Cleopatra] Reference
A rare carbuncled sword, and arrows bore. From Wordnik.com. [Malayan Literature] Reference
Were it carbuncled. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and Precious Stones Treating of the Known References of Precious Stones in Shakespeare's Works, with Comments as to the Origin of His Material, the Knowledge of the Poet Concerning Precious Stones, and References as to Where the Precious Stones of His Time Came from] Reference
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