blain

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"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

They haf daken atfandage of our bresence to regover a bortion of the blain.

From Overland by De Forest, J. W. (John William)

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

In addition to these, blain, "to become white," is a Scand. loan-word, but rather from Dan. blegne than Norse blæikna, cp. blake above.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias

Can't you virshta blain Eenglish ven you hears it?

From The End of the World A Love Story by Eggleston, Edward