leper
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"Hapcheon already had a leper colony," Mr Shim explains.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025
Chief among the rudely treated are women of childbearing age and the denizens of a leper colony outside Nazareth’s gates.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022
There is a moment in Warner’s novel when the bishop’s clerk journeys to a leper house and participates in an impromptu recital of Ars Nova, a new style of polyphonic music.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2021
A triumphant McKissick called Wood's supporters "a fringe, rogue group" and vowed to turn them into a "leper colony" by building parallel Republican organizations in their territory.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2021
St. Moling did but he no sooner had the leper up on his back than the leper started to complain.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
“People with AIDs were considered to be the lepers of the time,” Pieters said in a recent interview at his Silver Lake home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
"I simply hope that people who, in my opinion, have been treated rather like lepers, are now on a journey which treats them as people with a health condition."
From BBC ● May 16, 2022
Mind you, this is the supremely healthy, singing-and-dancing variety of lepers.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022
He was with the thieves, and the prostitutes, and the tax collectors, and the lepers.
From Salon ● May 22, 2019
For this reason, the treatment of lepers has historically been brutal in many parts of the world.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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