How To Use leprous In A Sentence
- Matthew, in annexing this cure to that of the leper, who was a Jew, intimates this; the leprous Jews Christ touched and cured, for he preached personally to them; but the paralytic Gentiles he cured at a distance; for to them he did not go in person, but sent his word and healed them; yet in them he was more magnified. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
- An audible hissing pop accompanied the loosening of the last bolt, and at the sight of my leprous fore-arms and the great plates of scabrous horn which have overgrown my chest, the roust-abouts screamed like a pair of God-damned fat ladies.
- Its surface was mottled with great ugly spots, leprous with the scaly markings called faculae and granulations. Starchild Omnibus
- There are various things to avoid, washer-men's donkeys and pariah dogs, unyoked ticca-gharries, heaps of rubbish, perhaps a leprous beggar. Hilda A Story of Calcutta
- It is in fact a peculiarly rapid decay caused by a kind of leprous growth which nothing can arrest. The Keeper of the Door
- What child now dares lose themselves among these rasping ghouls, whose shrouds come peeling off in leprous strips? Wine Poetry
- Kwaque serving and loving his master and thickening and darkening and creasing his brow with the growing leprous infiltration; Ah CHAPTER XII
- Founded as a hospital by Eudo the Steward, to support four leprous residents, its chapel became a parish church and was able to survive the Dissolution.
- When a child of a respectable family disappeared without a trace in 1750, riots, spurred by rumors that the children's blood was being drained to cure leprous princes, broke out in several of the city's districts.
- If they have, you can embellish the tale of the Leprous Pavanne from the Introduction in a similar way.
