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  • I carried her into the church like a pieta, blood dripping in the aisle from her open stigmata.†  (source)
  • It had nothing to do with my smacking LaRue's imaginary stigmata on the track.†  (source)
  • I read about the other stigmata of syphilis: mulberry molars, saber-shinned tibias, and deafness.†  (source)
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  • It was the modern stigmata.†  (source)
  • So I asked her if there wasn't any place she would like to go to for a day or two to brace herself up a little," went on Clyde, only here on account of the blackness of the lie he was telling he twisted and swallowed in the weak, stigmatic way that was his whenever he was attempting something which was beyond him—any untruth or a feat of skill—and then added: "And she said yes, maybe to one of those lakes up in the Adirondacks—it didn't make much difference which one—if we could afford it.†  (source)
  • Many of these stigmata appeared to be infected.†  (source)
  • Perhaps still better to put it out over a clandestine beam attributed to the Terran scientists still with us while our official channels display the classic stigmata of tight censorship.†  (source)
  • She too arrived at close range, looked at the burns and scars on Virgie's hands, as Missie Spights had done, making them stigmata of something at odds in her womanhood.†  (source)
  • All the physiological stigmata of old age have been abolished.†  (source)
  • And every evening mothers wailed thus, with a distraught abstraction, as their eyes fell on those fatal stigmata on limbs and bellies; every evening hands gripped Rieux's arms, there was a rush of useless words, promises, and tears; every evening the nearing tocsin of the ambulance provoked scenes as vain as every form of grief.†  (source)
  • So captivated was he by this savor of sensuality and varietism that was about her, the stigmata of desire manifest in her gestures, moods, voice, the way she dressed, that he could not think of relinquishing her.†  (source)
  • How the stigmata ...the marks of the nails ...appeared in your palm and you swooned at the holy vision....†  (source)
  • She too arrived at close range, looked at the burns and scars on Virgie's hands, as Missie Spights had done, making them stigmata of something at odds in her womanhood.†  (source)
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