When they reached Yaroslavl the wound had begun to
fester (Natasha knew all about such things as festering) and the doctor had said that the festering might take a normal course.
I think thou observedst, it is probable the wound will fester, so as to occasion danger to the limb in this cold weather?”
“Out of nater, sir, quite out of nater,” said Elnathan, attempting to expectorate, but succeeding only in throwing a light, frothy substance, like a flake of snow, into the fire—” quite out of nater that a wound so well dressed, and with the ball in my pocket, should fester. I s’pose, as the Judge talks of taking the young man into his house, it will be most convenient if I make but one charge on’t.”
All the hate and scorn and love of a deep nature such as the shy man is ever cursed by
fester and corrupt within, instead of spending themselves abroad, and sour him into a misanthrope and cynic.
But they are such only when they seek to gratify the passion of revenge upon their enemies; and I ask whether the mere eating of human flesh so very far exceeds in barbarity that custom which only a few years since was practised in enlightened England:--a convicted traitor, perhaps a man found guilty of honesty, patriotism, and suchlike heinous crimes, had his head lopped off with a huge axe, his bowels dragged cut and thrown into a fire; while his body, carved into four quarters, was with his head exposed upon pikes, and permitted to rot and
fester among the public haunts of men!
His forearms were black and blue from wrist to elbow, what of the countless blows he had warded off, and here and there the tortured flesh was beginning to
fester. His head and arms and shoulders ached, the small of his back ached, - he ached all over, and his brain was heavy and dazed.
And beneath will be the abyss, wherein will
fester and starve and rot, and ever renew itself, the common people, the great bulk of the population.
It would appear that they are a half-brute, half-human species, a race apart, wherein there is no such thing as sex; that they are hatched out by the sun like turtle eggs, or receive life in some similar and sordid fashion; and that all their days they
fester in brutality and viciousness, and in the end die as unlovely as they have lived.
Malaria still
festered in me and put me on my back in shivering delirium at the most unexpected moments, compelling me to cancel a double lecture tour which had been arranged.
The hot summer was on-- Jacobus Laningdale had selected the time shrewdly--and the plague
festered everywhere.
Although lately some spark may have been shown by one, which made us think he was ordained by God for our redemption, nevertheless it was afterwards seen, in the height of his career, that fortune rejected him; so that Italy, left as without life, waits for him who shall yet heal her wounds and put an end to the ravaging and plundering of Lombardy, to the swindling and taxing of the kingdom and of Tuscany, and cleanse those sores that for long have
festered. It is seen how she entreats God to send someone who shall deliver her from these wrongs and barbarous insolencies.
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