Example Sentences

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This rule applies to derivatives, but not to compounds: thus, we write merciful, and mercy-seat; penniless, and pennyworth; scurviness, and scurvy-grass; &c.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

I guessed that my beautiful stepmother intended me some such scurviness from the circumstance of her having kept me in ignorance of my father's death.

From Saint Martin's Summer by Sabatini, Rafael

A staggering hound, with scurviness and sores, came up the steps, then on the porch, and licked his face....

From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by Moore, John Trotwood