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leprosy
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  • But the most terrible of the afflictions were men and women with leprosy.  (source)
  • These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, "Business as usual."  (source)
  • If he could have infected the whole lot of them with leprosy or syphilis, how gladly he would have done so!  (source)
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  • I know I am like a leprosy.  (source)
    leprosy = an infectious bacterial disease that affects skin and nerves
  • Through some strange quickening of inner life the leprosies of sin were slowly eating the thing away.†  (source)
  • I said, "I'm like the lepers in the olden Bible days," and he gave me a nogie and said leprosy is now called Hansen's disease and can be cleared up easily with antibiotics, which hopefully they'll be able to do soon with AIDS.†  (source)
    editor's notes: Hansen's disease is more commonly called leprosy.
  • During this time, leprosy was widespread on all the islands.†  (source)
  • Through some strange quickening of inner life the leprosies of sin were slowly eating the thing away.†  (source)
  • That won't do, says the leper, I barely have a hand left with the leprosy and I can't hold on and blow into your hand.†  (source)
  • Leprosy?†  (source)
  • They are used to gunfire and leprosy but not true love.†  (source)
  • He donated money to orphanages and leprosy clinics.†  (source)
  • Let the flesh instruct the mind....It brought back to me that book of poems I'd held in my hand when she first spoke these words to me, and I save the verse upon the page: Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.†  (source)
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