When people claim to be reincarnated, for some reason, they tend to have been the Queen of Sheba, and not some scrofulous beggar. |
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His discretion in the face of so scrofulous and untutored a palate as mine was marvellous. |
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In 1712, the scrofulous two-year-old son of a Staffordshire bookseller was brought to London for presentation to Queen Anne. |
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Some of those who parted with their money to bet on the really scrofulous nags would undoubtedly say that was the best place for them. |
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No king touched so much for the king's evil, that class of unpleasant glandular and scrofulous disorders that kings were reputed to be able to cure. |
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Prolonged cough of scrofulous children, bronchial catarrh, laryngeal catarrh of different type, certain forms of whooping cough. |
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But children, dogs, and scrofulous pigeons mean bugs aplenty. |
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He had inherited from his parents a scrofulous taint, which it was beyond the power of medicine to remove. |
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It's a Dali-esque frightmare of liquescent forms, a pseudo-organic samplescape congested with scrofulous sound tentacles and slithery slimeshapes. |
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