Word: scabrously
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...world of sunlight sleeping in ageless gardens; his occupations hunting and lovemaking; he passed from gratification to gratification, looking for the answer to a question he had never phrased. Sometimes, when he traveled over his estates, he saw unpleasant things-a man dreadfully undone by age, a body scabrous with disease, a corpse putrefying in a field-but Channa, his charioteer, had a comment which illumined all such offensive testimonials of hu- man mortality. "That is the way of life," said Channa...
Some of them were old, with peaked brown faces gouged and distorted by the wild turmoil in their heads; some were boys who admired the carpenter because of his sorrowful eyes and comely figure; others peddlers and harlots, cripples scabrous with loathsome diseases, twitching paralytics, and mahogany-faced bushmen who had heard of Vespaciano and had come down from the hills. To them he talked of what had been revealed to him; some he healed, using the same formula with which he had raised his first patient, and it came to the ears of certain authorities that this formula...