Word: leprous
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After a thoroughly thrilling set-to with the Knights Templars, who are painted as Black-Mass men and whose assassins invariably go disguised as leprous beggars, O'Neill and Kothra hump themselves furiously on dromedary-back to the marge of the Lake of Galilee. The bloodhounds are coming! Quick, quick! Will he embrace Islam to save them both? Yes, yes! So, discreetly, they strip off their clothes and swim together out of the last chapter, presumably to board a Bedouin fishing smack, get back to Damascus and live in flower-fragrant happiness ever after...
...press in general displayed a friendly spirit of welcome, gave publicity to a remark made by Lady Astor as she sailed for England last week: "There is no woman in all Europe who has a better War record than Queen Marie. Do you know she went into leprous buildings where all others were afraid to go and where the dead were piled high and people were dying of disease...
...fruits, observing luxuriant inhabitants of the air where "giant ferns grew rank by fetid fens." Octans neatly despatched a ghost leopard that infested their paradise and all was serene until she asked him to pick a certain blue lotus. Then an "odious ophidian," a python regius of "lethal length," "leprous luster" and "fetid folds," embraced and kissed him so strenuously that he died, shattering her "cordon of dreams." She hated to leave when the battleship came to rescue...
York House. On the site of "a hospital for 14 maidens that were leprous," dedicated to St. James the Less, Henry VIII built a palace, which he inhabited with Anne Boleyn until he tired of both. With the burning of the great Palace of Whitehall, the sovereigns of England from William III to George IV maintained there the Court of St. James's, still a synonym for the Court of Britain. There Charles I slept out the night before his execution; there the ill-starred Marie de Medici, Queen of Henry IV of France, found a refuge; there George...
...course both extremes are absurd. College men today are no more persons of sterling Christian character and high moral worth than they were inherently wicked, depraved, and leprous in the two years which followed the signing of the armistice. Their only fault was that they were and are young, and, being more receptive to new influences than their elders, unconsciously responded more immediately to changing conditions of time and circumstance. After the war, sensing the general relaxation, they let down, while their elders still held blindly on. Presently they felt the coming of what is hoped will...