blain

Example Sentences

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The blain is more frequent in spring and summer than at other seasons of the year.

From The Dog by Youatt, William

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

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 Chadwick, G. A.

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

Thorn and snow, blain and ache and bruise, were gone.

From The Three Mulla-mulgars by De la Mare, Walter