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How to use leprous in a sentence

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When I nursed in a clinic near Bombay, a small girl, shielding all her leprous sores, crept inside the door.
By 724 BC the leprous king Uzziah of Judah had not been seen for a while and finally in that year he died.
Her impact on the leprous Syrian Commander is, of course, decisive for the narrative.
The Lazarus of the parable appears on crutches with dogs licking his leprous sores, a citation from Luke.
So you think you will just lie low and say nothing, do you, you leprous swine?
By all means be appalled by the leprous beggars, but don't allow this to blind you to the rich educational diversity the Third World has to offer.
The most common type of leprosy causes the pallidness of the skin which proves that people had to have melanin first in order for them to become leprous.
While leprous signs wracked the entire body, notably disfiguring the face, making public a private sin, it was on the genitals that the first signs of syphilis would appear.
In 1180 he married Sibyl, sister of the leprous Baldwin IV, king of Jerusalem.
Let us begin our lesson with this Old Testament story relating the experience of Naaman the Syrian, a leprous man in search of healing.
Had they experienced their own leprous condition lifted, so that they knew themselves no longer as outcasts but as accepted by God?
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.
Four leprous men were outside the walls of the city and starving to death.
Sometimes, in Africa and in Latin America among the many beggars, besides leprous or sick people, we encounter whole families who have lost their houses.
Ranging from deformed and leprous to ethereal and slumberous, Helnwein's images transcend their grotesque implications and are bathed in amniotic tranquility and compassionate reverence.
Their surfaces range from the stark cratering of Earth's moon through the cantaloupe-skin of Triton, which circles Neptune, to the cue-ball-smooth ice of Europa and the lurid leprous sulphur of Io, both companions of Jupiter.
The surgeons, in their turn, invent a method of leprosy surgery, a direct intervention in the leprous nerve, which proves to be palliative in cases of serious impotence.
As an example, the feast of Sant'Egidio, a benedictine abbè protector of disabled and leprous, who lived in the beginning of the eighteen century.
The blind pupils, from where ran out of mucus, rolled in major orbits, the gash of the mouth, broad, without lips, yawned a such clamping plate, starting from crumplings of a leprous skin.
Examples from Classical Literature
He liked what he had said about the leprous play, before Joseph's appearance.
The planet must be cleansed of that leprous form of life, else there would be no peace.
But, unlike the case of the leprous garment, this does not end the ceremonial.
This caused an exposure of his arms, by which it became manifest that he was leprous.
A kind of square of leprous houses, some of which are attainable only by crazy wooden stairs without.
She smiled faintly, and then a tear rolled down the leprous cheek.
He was not before 1179 allowed even a leprous priest to say Mass for him.
And he thought of the photograph on Petersen's leprous wall.
The loss of the eyeball may be a leprous sign, or perhaps from tumour.
When the Lord sends the curse of leprosy or pestilence into a family, every one flies and shuns the abode of the leprous or plague-stricken.
When one is far off and alone, it would not be well to grow blotched and leprous of a sudden,' said Mahbub.
Instead of the child of his hopes he sees a shriveled and leprous corpse.
For the white leprous face of the sphinx was towards it.Above me towered the sphinx, upon the bronze pedestal, white, shining, leprous, in the light of the rising moon.
For one moment I had a vision of a horrible mask like a giant toad's, of a warty, leprous skin, and of a loose mouth all beslobbered with fresh blood.
From the boat-deck, with a bowline under Kwaque's arms and a turn of the rope around a pin, Dag Daughtry had lowered his leprous servitor into the waiting launch.
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