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

Half the world breaks out with action; its performance is cutaneous, of the nature of tetter.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various

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

It seemed like a pathological chart presenting a face broken out with an unseemly tetter.

From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by Hosmer, James Kendall

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