purulence

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A mortal poison pervaded the whole system, by means of which every thing received was converted into bane and purulence.

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The outer surface is always smooth, and no indication of purulence, softening, or scab formation is ever exhibited.

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I felt as if I must run away from it and those terrible dressings, reeking with purulence, where ears and eyelids and lips come off and fingers and hands peel like a glove.

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Already the exploiting class, as it neared the term of its depleted life, was but a mass of purulence.

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One eye, the left eye, had completely foundered among bubbling purulence, and the other, which remained half open, looked like a deep, black, ruinous hole.

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