blain
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Or if the ache of travel and of toil Would sometimes wring a short, sharp cry of pain From agony of fever, blain, and boil, 'Twas but to crush it down and on again!
From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by William Garden Blaikie
In addition to these, blain, "to become white," is a Scand. loan-word, but rather from Dan. blegne than Norse blæikna, cp. blake above.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
De moonlighdt blayed oopon de drees, It shined oopon de blain, Two forms rode in de mitnight woods, Und nefer coomed again.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Charles Godfrey Leland
That is a lie, because I sboke as blain as anythin'.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
But I—" "We're blain beoble, miss, but we got a respegtable standing in the neighborhood for fifteen years.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
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