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- adverb In a
leprous way.
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Examples
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Its dripping scales shone leprously in the moonlight as it reared its form high above the deck, while the stricken man screamed and writhed like a mouse in the fangs of a python.
The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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Its dripping scales shone leprously in the moonlight as it reared its form high above the deck, while the stricken man screamed and writhed like a mouse in the fangs of a python.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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Its dripping scales shone leprously in the moonlight as it reared its form high above the deck, while the stricken man screamed and writhed like a mouse in the fangs of a python.
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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Its dripping scales shone leprously in the moonlight as it reared its form high above the deck, while the stricken man screamed and writhed like a mouse in the fangs of a python.
Conan of Cimmeria Howard, Robert E. 1969
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It was leprously stained and discolored, by no means the brilliant white fat crescent it should have appeared.
Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963
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Lucky is the circumcised Jew who has, in the time of need, the good fortune to have the Hebrew charm applied to his leprously-inclined body; and thrice fortunate is he, whoever he may be, that has it constantly at his command, and can claim it as his family relic.
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Along a weedy embankment there pants and clangs a patched and tarnished engine, its paint blistered, its parts leprously dull.
Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906
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