I probed my soul, and found it cankered and rotten.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Skin] Reference

Crucifixes, vestments, wax apples green or cankered.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Pregnant Widow'] Reference

She believed her daughter to be cankered to the core.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket] Reference

I'm a curious cankered carlie, my name is Willie Stroth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miller o' Straloch] Reference

Canst thou assain a heart diseased or heal-a cankered brain?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

‘Because he was once at fault, will he be cankered always?’.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference

Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 66: James The Challoner Revision] Reference

And who so bold or malicious, or age cankered as to dispute the dictum?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference

‘But you do not pluck those that have become cankered in the blowing.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference

The fruit, instead of being sweet and wholesome, has proved cankered and bitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Libertas Praestantissimum] Reference

Narrow, dark, it wormed its way through a cankered and little-traversed part of old London.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half A Chance] Reference

The prince was a wretched, whimpering little creature, with a cankered body and a blighted soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference

The meat was tough, stringy, and salty enough to make the cankered lining of the gunslinger's mouth sing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gunslinger]

Like a cankered root he is changing, growing toward winter, growing whiter, toward the idleness and the famine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravity's Rainbow]

A further aspect of the badly-cankered foot is to be found in an apparently enormous increase in the length of the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference

Why is a cankered tie indissoluble, notwithstanding the great maxim adopted by the code, Quicquid ligatur dissolubile est?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

I causer, for Sir Launcelot and his blood, through their prowess, held all your cankered enemies in subjection and daunger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference

For we who are about to die, we saw a shape in war, a blind, castrated wreck with cankered mind in flail of fury, saw it lamed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lucifer Cantos 10/13] Reference

The village milliner, a cankered old carle, who had made caps and bonnets for the vicinage during the last forty years, led the battle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 348, December 27, 1828] Reference

He longed “to see these poor, cankered, angular ladies transformed into cheerful, amiable wives with something really to live for.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference

We left him standing in the low pink sun, small as a cankered rose, spiky, thorny, a thing of dread, only to be encountered with shears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cider With Rosie]

Do not try to remove cankered areas from the trunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [JSOnline.com] Reference

What ails ye to be cankered, man, wi 'your friends?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary — Volume 02] Reference

But it rusted and cankered at your father's heart for years. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oliver Twist] Reference

A sour, cankered, curious body -- she's dead and rotten lang ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith] Reference

Is not thy effrontery impenetrable, and thy heart thoroughly cankered?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference

Twa auld cankered carles are no fit company for twa young folks like you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Sunbonnet] Reference

I went in with him and went to bed, but my trouble had now cankered too deeply to be easily calmed.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine] Reference

Thou that for loving censures the votaries of love, Canst thou assain a heart diseased or heal a cankered brain?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference

Thou, that for loving censurest the votaries of love, Canst thou assain a heart diseased or heal a cankered brain?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV] Reference