Example Sentences

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Here, Dr. Faustus was still going down to very red and yellow perdition, under the superintendence of three green personages of a scaly humour, with excrescential serpents growing out of their blade-bones.

From Reprinted Pieces by Dickens, Charles

His ugliness was not unamiable; it was accidental, external, excrescential.

From Dark Lady of the Sonnets by Shaw, Bernard