leper

IPA: ɫˈɛpɝ

Examples of "leper" in Sentences

Board of Health, and the leper is ordered straight to Molokai.
In the first place, the leper is not torn ruthlessly from his family.
Today, the term leper is often used to refer to a person excluded from society.
Nor, after having been declared a leper, is the patient immediately rushed off to Molokai.
Such a leper is a lonely outcast, living in constant fear of discovery and slowly and surely rotting away.
But only making the country worse for another 4-8 years and turning your candidate into political leper is not the way to do it. sheep
On the other hand, if that same leper is in Molokai, the surgeon will operate upon the foot, remove the ulcer, cleanse the bone, and put a complete stop to that particular ravage of the disease.
If the leper is in hiding, he cannot be operated upon, the necrosis will continue to eat its way up the bone of the leg, and in a brief and horrible time that leper will die of gangrene or some other terrible complication.