Pariahs

Usage examples of lepers.

Big Caciques, to hurt him, struck hard at the lepers, struck hard at Culion.

Islands that Governor-General Wood, giving no intimation of his intention, no chance for preparations to be made, walked in upon a roomful of lepers, male and female, herded together for future disposition.

The care of lepers, since history began, had always been left to charity.

Excellency not to abandon us without the assurance that the great and noble work you have undertaken for the despised lepers shall be continued.

Hundreds of lepers who had still remained in hiding came forward and begged to be taken to the Island.

Filipino with regard to Filipino lepers had become and definitely remained that of hostility.

We do not consider the disease very horrible and we want to keep our lepers in our own households at home.

Five thousand lepers had been segregated--a thing new in the Orient--and the spread of leprosy had been brought under control.

I should have been shocked, if, at that moment, I could have caught a vision of myself a month later, ashore in the most cursed place on earth and having a disgracefully good time along with eight hundred of the lepers who were likewise having a good time.

For instance, in the afternoon of the Fourth of July all the lepers gathered at the race-track for the sports.

And all the while nearly a thousand lepers were laughing uproariously at the fun.

Molokai that neither the lepers, nor those who devote their lives to them, have received a fair deal.

A newspaper writer, who, of course, had never been near the Settlement, vividly described Superintendent McVeigh, crouching in a grass hut and being besieged nightly by starving lepers on their knees, wailing for food.

I heard the lepers wailing for food--only the wailing was peculiarly harmonious and rhythmic, and it was accompanied by the music of stringed instruments, violins, guitars, ukuleles, and banjos.

On returning to their own houses, after having been among and handling lepers, the non-lepers, such as the physicians and the superintendent, merely wash their faces and hands with mildly antiseptic soap and change their coats.