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The teeth are sometimes covered with dark sordes (foul accumulations) early in the fever, and the appearance of the tongue varies, sometimes being coated a yellowish brown, sometimes red and dry, at other times thickly coated and white.— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Oil, sweat, filth; or the sordes of the body: an excrementitious viscosity, the excrements of oil and other ointments used about the body, and mixed with the sordes of the body: all base and loathsome.— Meditations
You cleanse away carefully the sordes and caput mortuum, letting all that is volatile evaporate.— A Tale of a Tub
Do Morti; -- reddo caetera, Christe! tibi. [sordes.]— Literary Remains, Volume 1
Tolle culpam, sordes munda.— A Handbook for Latin Clubs

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