The weight of the oleaginous air they were breathing lightened perceptibly, while the nearest sphacelated fungi seemed to recoil from the unrelenting cheerfulness, a perception that turned out to be anything but imaginary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference

The ligature was removed in seven days, and the sphacelated portion of the liver came off with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Its texture was extremely tender, being easily perforated with the finger, was of a livid red colour, and evidently in a sphacelated state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

His belly which at first was only hard, now evidently contained a large quantity of water, his legs were more swelled, and a large sphacelated sore appeared upon each outer ancle.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases] Reference

Take a gentleman's advice and apply the soft pedal to your wheezy calliope -- get off the political stage in time to avoid the coming cataclysm of sphacelated cabbage and has-been cats.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference

When America's greatest lexicographer writes me an ungrammatical message on a double-barreled slate, signs it "noeh webstur," and instructs his terrestial to deliver it to me on payment of one cart-wheel dollar, I suspect that there's something sphacelated in the psychological Denmark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference

To some others he spoiled the frame of their kidneys, marred their backs, broke their thigh-bones, pashed in their noses, poached out their eyes, cleft their mandibles, tore their jaws, dung in their teeth into their throat, shook asunder their omoplates or shoulder-blades, sphacelated their shins, mortified their shanks, inflamed their ankles, heaved off of the hinges their ishies, their sciatica or hip-gout, dislocated the joints of their knees, squattered into pieces the boughts or pestles of their thighs, and so thumped, mauled and belaboured them everywhere, that never was corn so thick and threefold threshed upon by ploughmen's flails as were the pitifully disjointed members of their mangled bodies under the merciless baton of the cross.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1] Reference

To some others he spoiled the frame of their kidneys, marred their backs, broke their thigh-bones, pashed in their noses, poached out their eyes, cleft their mandibles, tore their jaws, dung in their teeth into their throat, shook asunder their omoplates or shoulder-blades, sphacelated their shins, mortified their shanks, inflamed their ankles, heaved off of the hinges their ishies, their sciatica or hip-gout, dislocated the joints of their knees, squattered into pieces the boughts or pestles of their thighs, and so thumped, mauled and belaboured them everywhere, that never was corn so thick and threefold threshed upon by ploughmen’s flails as were the pitifully disjointed members of their mangled bodies under the merciless baton of the cross.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference