blain

Example Sentences

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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 Blaikie, William Garden

They haf daken atfandage of our bresence to regover a bortion of the blain.

From Overland by De Forest, J. W. (John William)

"I guess you know it, Miss Lilly, that with all the honors we got by our daughter, we're still blain, respegtable beoble."

From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie

That is a lie, because I sboke as blain as anythin'.

From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William

Can't you virshta blain Eenglish ven you hears it?

From The End of the World A Love Story by Eggleston, Edward