Etymology
Origin of carbuncled
Example Sentences
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Through whose shaggy beetle-brows, and rough-hewn, seamed, carbuncled face, there look natural ugliness, small-pox, incontinence, bankruptcy,--and burning fire of genius?
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09 European Statesmen by John Lord
It was not a nose snubbed at the extremity, gross, heavy, or carbuncled, or fluting.
From Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat
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 The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
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
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
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