Leper's

For a moment more the mute and the leper stood in sight, while the former adjusted his heavy burden; then, without one backward glance upon the unkind human world, turning their faces toward the ridge in the depths of the swamp known as the Leper's Land, they stepped into the jungle, disappeared, and were never seen again.

Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools 1910

Pentecost along to the north, you will sight Leper's Island as soon as you round the north point.

Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884

Leper's Island, which was the place they wanted to reach.

Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884

For a moment more the mute and the leper stood in sight, while the former adjusted his heavy burden; then, without one backward glance upon the unkind human world, turning their faces toward the ridge in the depths of the swamp known as the Leper's Land, they stepped into the jungle, disappeared, and were never seen again.

Old Creole Days 1879

Away where the waters of the Mississippi and of Lake Pontchartrain had formed a high ridge of land, was the "Leper's Bluff;" and among the reeds from the city thitherward always lurked a host of criminals.

The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland 1875

'We must take our large parties from islands where there is as yet no permanent teacher: Ambrym, Leper's Island, the Solomon Islands.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

At Leper's Island St. Barnabas Day was celebrated by bringing off two boys, but here again was peril.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

Leper's Isle owes its unpleasant name to its medicinal springs.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

At 'the grand island, miscalled Leper's,' the Bishop slept ashore for the first time, and so also at Whitsuntide.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

'Leper's Island is very pleasant; I longed to stay there.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873