stitch abscess

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An abscess around a stitch or suture.

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Which form is used to state an obligation or duty someone has?

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In that way that was cathartic too, to sort of stitch up all those pieces and see how that is.
Richard Blanco’s Gay Latino Poet Survival Kit|William O’Connor|October 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In fact, by the way he challenged my thoughts on the case, I thought perhaps he was aiming to stitch up the media.
What It's Like to Watch Kate Beckinsale Play You in a Movie|Barbie Latza Nadeau|September 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Various scratches and cuts line her arms and face; a pus-filled abscess burns on her right arm.
Hallucinating Away a Heroin Addiction|Abby Haglage|May 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Advice that was given me by Florence Ridley, a professor in graduate school: Stitch, stitch.
How I Write: Diane Johnson|Noah Charney|January 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST

When he finally goes to see a dentist, he learns that he has an abscess: the tooth is rotten, threatening to overtake his jaw.
‘Mad Men’ Returns: A Recap of Season Five|Jace Lacob|April 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Rapport, who took the lovers part, had been kept awake all night by an abscess on his finger, and was nearly fainting.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky|Modeste Tchaikovsky
Net five rows, then take a mesh a very little larger, and widen by netting two stitches in every stitch.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness|Florence Hartley
If he has opened his abscess with a bronze lancet and has made him lose his eye, he shall pay money, half his price.
The Oldest Code of Laws in the World|Hammurabi, King of Babylon
But Tilly only laughed, and Cordelia forgot her question with the last stitch she put into her tassel.
The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch|Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
It gives order to the thoughts, fixes by a stitch the moment that passes what would otherwise pass with it.
The Nabob|Alphonse Daudet