What is "leper"

Usage examples of "leper".

As if apologetically, the almoner began to speak of the leper house and the various inmates.

The almoner had already hinted that the harvest had not been as good as had been hoped, and that it would be best if the lepers could reduce their demands on the church.

Even so, according to them the anointing took place at the house of one Simon the Leper.

I did not in earnest think him leprous, but boys that age are cruel, and once the Leper became his name among us, to distinguish him from the other monks at St Viktor the Hunchback, the Pig, the Furnace, the Cesspit and the Mole I could not banish the notion.

San Francisco where the heteros joked about their minority status, in the Latino community to be gay was to be a leper.

There were only a handful of leper colonies, or leprosariums, left in the world and none of them was affiliated with the name Alma.

Last, a private message had been sent to the abbot through intermediaries, that unless she was brought safely out of the monastery within twenty-four hours, Naga, the only son of Toranaga within reach and any of his women that could be caught, would, unhappily, wake up in the leper village, having been fed by them, watered by them, and serviced by one of their whores.

It was very hot below, but when I went up on deck it was cool, and in the colored dawn we were just running up to the island-group of which Pinang is the chief, and reached the channel which divides it from Leper Island just at sunrise.

Let writers of fiction assume that the public knows there are foul things, and needs not to be reminded of them, and let the romancist avoid them as he would a land of lepers.

Good-n-Plenty, Spittoonz, Yummy-Mummies, Monkey-Doodles, Bytz-o-Hades, Watermelon Yeehaws, Woolly-Booger Sugar Sticks, Goopyloopies, Mount Caramels, Tootsie Rolls, Big Fat Logs, Gooey-Goony Moon Fruities, Frog Boogers, Newtonian Apple-Bombs, Slug-Bumpies, LavaLumpos, Butternutty Yumdumz, Slimy-limey Leper Tongues.

If the leper is in hiding, he cannot be operated upon, the necrosis will continue to eat its way up the bone of the leg, and in a brief and horrible time that leper will die of gangrene or some other terrible complication.

Whether we are being inspired by a story about Saint Francis kissing a leper or by seeing how, in our own day, Mother Teresa of Calcutta spent her life serving the poorest of the poor, we are being inspired by the mind of Christ that flows from deep prayerful oneness with God.

He took ship eastwards, and visited the great leper hospital at the Island of Scio, where everything was done to make the poor creatures as comfortable as possible.

Harlots and scurfy knaves became religious fanatics, determined to crawl the length of the country or wash the feet of every leper they could find.

Everybody else was an unclean alien, an uncircumcised dog, an uncovenanted leper.