blain

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Nevertheless the blain grew chillier and chillier until at last they were compelled to send for a physician.

From Bill the Minder by Robinson, W. Heath (William Heath)

"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