blain
Example Sentences
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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
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
It alwish seemed to me to be a beeg fish story, but it ish all blain to my mint now.
From Recitations for the Social Circle by Harvey, James Clarence
That is a lie, because I sboke as blain as anythin'.
From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William
"I guess you know it, Miss Lilly, that with all the honors we got by our daughter, we're still blain, respegtable beoble."
From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie
