blain

Example Sentences

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For their sakes also puttest Pharaoh to pain By ten diverse plagues, as I shall here declare: By blood, frogs, and lice; by flies, death, blotches, and blain.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Thorn and snow, blain and ache and bruise, were gone.

From The Three Mulla-mulgars by De la Mare, Walter

"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

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

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

The blain is more frequent in spring and summer than at other seasons of the year.

From The Dog by Youatt, William