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  • noun Plural form of blain.

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Examples

  • Egyptians with blains, it was necessary that Moses should scatter ashes in the air (Exod. ix: 10); the locusts also came upon the land of Egypt by a command of God in accordance with nature, namely, by an east wind blowing for a whole day and night; and they departed by a very strong west wind (Exod. x: 14, 19).

    Theologico-Political Treatise 2007

  • And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Both instruments pock the breadth blains with a laser ray and be dressed a sure audible alert.

    Skip this delagar 2006

  • When once I had seen from the leads of our house the quag of reeking life around, the stubs and snags of chimney-pots, the gashes among them entitled streets, and the broken blains called houses, I was quite ashamed of paying any thing to become a Christian.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Spotted with nameless scars and lurid blains, 3980

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains Rev. 16.2 upon man, and upon beast.

    Exodus 9. 1999

  • And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.

    Exodus 9. 1999

  • His horses died, but Arabia was near to replenish his stables; the pests annoyed him, but his servants fended them from him; the blains troubled him, but his court physicians were able and gave him relief; the thunders frightened him, but his fright passed with the storm.

    The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

  • We had lice, boils and blains, and flies -- particularly and perpetually, flies.

    With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett

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