What is "weal"

Usage examples of "weal".

Greenbaum, the dolichocephalous Scherer and the acephalous Hunn, had ever done a stroke of productive work or contributed anything toward the common weal.

I ignored this mutinous outburst and sprayed the ugly scarlet weals, coating them with a protective and soothing skin, and then I lifted her into my arms and held her like that while the morphine smoothed out the fearful burning agony of the stings and Chubby ran us back to the island.

AIDE To France, And to posterity through fineless time, Must you then answer for so foul a blow Against the common weal!

When she was finally able to lift the kameez without pulling at the broken skin underneath, she laid her forehead against each swollen, infected weal.

I, Nai the Hever, in my official capacity as Servant of the Thariot Servantry, hereby request and contract with the Honorable Jubal Droad that he undertake a task at his inconvenience and peril in furtherance of the public weal.

And in the mid rout, Zigg stole an instant to charge me by my love for him ride to Krothering as if my life lay on it and the weal of all of us, and bid you fly hence to Westmark or the isles or whither you will, ere the Witches come again and here entrap you.

For weal or woe she will him not forsake: She is not weary him to love and serve, Though that he lie bedrid until he sterve.

State from exercising such powers as are vested in it for the promotion of the common weal, or are necessary for the general good of the public, though contracts previously entered into between individuals may thereby be affected.

Seeing that still she did not quite understand, the black boy opened his Acan jerkin and showed her lying upon his chest, which was most hideously wealed, a little bag that he had made himself out of opossum fur,--the kind of bag that is recognised at once among aboriginal tribes as containing the precious pituri, and the possession of which ensures safety to its bearer, no matter how hostile the people among whom he travels.

It swept across the river to Shepperton, and the water in its track rose in a boiling weal crested with steam.

She was only about twenty yards from him now and he could see her plainly, the wild white hair, the nightdress sticking to her body, the swinging, pendulous breasts, the arms with their weals of crepy skin.

Greenbaum, the dolichocephalous Scherer and the acephalous Hunn, had ever done a stroke of productive work or contributed anything toward the common weal.

Dandy had been more than enthusiastic in his use of Lolli and not only had he left her heavily bruised but there was hardly an inch of her flesh that was not striated with raised tramline ridges or livid weals from his use of the cane and the whip.

She was stroked and caressed, his lips running over the painful weals and tramlines until all her pain was swept away by a rising tide of arousal that left no place for anything but feelings of sexual gratification.

I have to be damned careful in complaining about anything, lest my complaint be the cause for a poor bastard of an underservant to suffer wealed, bruised, bleeding flesh or broken bones, simply on account of His Grace being displeased in some more than likely trivial way.