lazarus

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A troop of lazars, with sheets folded around them, glided, like phantoms, along Paul's Walk, and mimicked in a ghastly manner the air and deportment of the gallants who had formerly thronged the place.

From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison

The meate that was ordained, as soone as the dead corps friends and all the Bonzii are gone, is left for such as serued at the obsequie, for the poore and impotent lazars.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard

Here, greatness prostrate falls; there, strength gives place; Here, lazars smile; there, beauty hides her face.

From The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Young, Edward

Yet there came to him lazars and lepers, lame and blind.

From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Morris, Richard

The sun was getting low, as Mr. Fogo and Caleb stepped ashore on the ruined quay at Kit's House, not far from the spit of land where the lazars were buried.

From The Astonishing History of Troy Town by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir