cankering

Love turned to hate and treachery, and bitter, cankering pain.

Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010

A cankering disease, due, it is believed, to the action of certain bacteria, presently seized upon it.

The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

But it was too much to hope for a long-lasting federal law, if only because of the “cankering jealousy of the general government with which some of the states are so deeply affected.”

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

But it was too much to hope for a long-lasting federal law, if only because of the “cankering jealousy of the general government with which some of the states are so deeply affected.”

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

But it was too much to hope for a long-lasting federal law, if only because of the “cankering jealousy of the general government with which some of the states are so deeply affected.”

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

A cankering disease, due, it is believed, to the action of certain bacteria, presently seized upon it.

The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006

The Marchesa was attentive, and the Confessor added, “She is not immortal; and the few years more, that might have been allotted her, she deserves to forfeit, since she would have employed them in cankering the honour of an illustrious house.”

The Italian 2004

To Madame Hanska he revealed more the cankering disappointment, just as he had a twelvemonth previously, after the mishap of the School for Husbands and

Balzac 2003

In vain, you will have harassed your mind with cankering thoughts for half a lifetime; for it will be just as if you had gone through the confused mazes of a dream on the third watch!

Hung Lou Meng 2003

Thus thought Maria — These are the ravages over which humanity must ever mournfully ponder, with a degree of anguish not excited by crumbling marble, or cankering brass, unfaithful to the trust of monumental fame.

Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman 2002