“At this moment the door opened, and Doctor Dillon's carbuncled visage and glowing eyes appeared.”

“Grey carbuncled shells of giant clams open up to reveal a flesh of startling beauty, soft mauves dotted with electric blue and the palest of yellow.”

“And he is clear-skinned as a girl, while here I am, fanatically clean, pocked, pimpled, and carbuncled as a Hogarth.”

“The returns of the Registrar-General for this year exhibit a higher mortality from carbuncular diseases than those of any preceding one.”

“Two cases of anthracoid or carbuncular eruptions due to iodides are reported.”

“With his carbuncular face and scrawny body, stooped in a three-piece woollen suit, this Lear might be an aged industrialist.”