blain
Example Sentences
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Thorn and snow, blain and ache and bruise, were gone.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare
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 William Carew Hazlitt
And no philosophic theory condescends to bring the Ideal, the Absolute, and the Unconditioned, into such close and intimate connection with the frog-spawn of the ditch and the blain upon the tortured skin.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. Chadwick
The blain is more frequent in spring and summer than at other seasons of the year.
From The Dog by William Youatt
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 William Garden Blaikie
