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chronic bacterial disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions; characterized by inflamed nodules beneath the skin and wasting of body parts- Hundreds of thousands of new cases of leprosy are contracted each year; though it is rare in developed countries.
- That momentary happiness had been smitten with a blight, a leprosy; Stephen thought more lightly of her than he did of Lucy.George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
- 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.Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
- They are used to gunfire and leprosy but not true love.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- And even then it's got to be to call your mother to say that the school nurse has just diagnosed leprosy or something.Paul Zindel -- The Pigman
- I know I am like a leprosy.John Steinbeck -- The Pearl
- Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
- He believed himself to be rotting with a leprosy.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- During this time, leprosy was widespread on all the islands.Bethany Hamilton -- Soul Surfer
- But poverty may be as bad as leprosy, if it divides us from what we most care for.George Eliot -- Middlemarch
- When he did, the rose-tan of his cheek looked struck as by white leprosy.Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
- He donated money to orphanages and leprosy clinics.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- The royal Confessor was endowed by heaven with power to cleanse the ulcers of the body, but only God himself can cure the leprosy of the soul.Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
- Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt,— Whom leprosy o'ertake!William Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra
- But the most terrible of the afflictions were men and women with leprosy.Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club
- Cecily repeats, making the word sound like leprosy or syphilis.Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
- One character fails to recover health but nearly wins the lottery, while another, although not cured of leprosy, sprouts sunflowers from his sores.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- Park could tell her that he had lice and leprosy and parasitic worms living in his mouth, and she would still put on fresh ChapStick.Rainbow Rowell -- Eleanor & Park
- If he could have infected the whole lot of them with leprosy or syphilis, how gladly he would have done so!George Orwell -- 1984
- He was a leper, and the polite name for leprosy was "the white skin."Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
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