tetter

Example Sentences

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Mrs. Bains put a hand on the taller boy’s hair and fingered it lightly, absently searching with her nails for tetter spots.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

It is crusted and scabbed with yellowish tetter, like sulphur or the rancid fat on meat.

From The Old Front Line by Masefield, John

Its use undeniably produces scrofula, salt-rheum, tetter, ringworm, humors in the blood, rheumed eyes, enlarged glands, sore eyes, and lastly, cancer.

From Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants. by Bill, Ledyard

His cheeks were pallid and lank, his eyes sunken, his forehead overshadowed by coarse straggling hairs, his teeth large and irregular, though sound and brilliantly white, and his chin discoloured by a tetter.

From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Brown, Charles Brockden

This is a pitiful letter For want of a better; But plagued with a tetter, My fancy does fetter.

From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan