hankering
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It had been, for more than two years, cankering the public mind.
From Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. by Quincy, Josiah
And vppon the Plate well Wroughte, Grauen and Enameled, the Golde for all the Rust cankering the Plate, did yet appear.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William
I still say that ignorance, like horse piss, stinks, cankering the mind.
From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander
This incapacity chagrins me; sometimes I have a feeling of cankering care on the subject, but I combat it as well as I can; it does no good. p.
From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Shorter, Clement King
Their dirge is triumph; cankering rust, And time, that turneth all to dust, That tomb shall never waste nor hide,— The tomb of warriors true and tried.
From Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
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