blain

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Or if the ache of travel and of toil   Would sometimes wring a short, sharp cry of pain From agony of fever, blain, and boil,   'Twas but to crush it down and on again!

From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by Blaikie, William Garden

For their sakes also puttest Pharaoh to pain By ten diverse plagues, as I shall here declare: By blood, frogs, and lice; by flies, death, blotches, and blain.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew

But I—" "We're blain beoble, miss, but we got a respegtable standing in the neighborhood for fifteen years.

From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie

That is a lie, because I sboke as blain as anythin'.

From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William

De moonlighdt blayed oopon de drees,     It shined oopon de blain, Two forms rode in de mitnight woods,     Und nefer coomed again.

From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey