Etymology
Origin of carbuncled
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And Falstaff, cracking a kindred joke on Bardolph's carbuncled nose, avows his opinion that it will serve as a flaming beacon to light lost souls the way to purgatory!
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
Fare thee well then on thy lonesome path, and we that are not so much afraid of carbuncled faces, pot-bellies and short breath, proceed along our road.
From The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels by Connop Thirlwall
Let us, then, try to forget the carbuncled nose, the snuffy waistcoat, the unorthodox sneer.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various
Through whose shaggy beetle-brows and rough-hewn, seamed, carbuncled face there look natural ugliness, small-pox, incontinence, bankruptcy,—and burning fire of genius, like comet-fire glaring fuliginous through murkiest confusions?
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
At this moment the door opened, and Doctor Dillon's carbuncled visage and glowing eyes appeared.
From The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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