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Where pieces of the plaster mold had stuck to the bronze, it was leprously splotched.

From Time Magazine Archive

California's William Geis, the gutsiest of the out-of-town recruits unearthed by the traveling scouts, displays Perusal's Oar, a leprously painted dream abstract crowned by a monster lobster claw.

From Time Magazine Archive

A rickety chair, two hollow barrels, a plank, paper, pens, and infernally black ink, four leprously dingy white walls, no carpet, a cup of water, and a dry biscuit or two.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Along a weedy embankment there pants and clangs a patched and tarnished engine, its paint blistered, its parts leprously dull.

From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)