Fungous

Swells fungous from the rotten bough, grey mother of Pieria! ❋ Unknown (1921)

I shall sing a Song of the Sword, too, should the sword "thrust through the fatuous, thrust through the fungous brood." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Baillie described cancers of the lung (“as large as an orange”), stomach (“a fungous appearance”), and the testicles (“a foul deep ulcer”) and provided vivid engravings of these tumors. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

If you have had the management of the case from the first, you must not at once saw the bone down to the meninx; for it is not proper that the membrane should be laid bare and exposed to injuries for a length of time, as in the end it may become it may become fungous. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Watery ophthalmies of a chronic character, with pains; fungous excrescences of the eyelids, externally and internally, called fig, which destroyed the sight of many persons. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There were fungous growths, in many other instances, on ulcers, especially on those seated on the genital organs. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The original hand-to-mouth entertainers take their show on the road through the fungous, unillumined woods of aeon-decayed New England, wherein lurk the unhallowed, polypous horrors of immemorial abysses. ❋ Curufea (2007)

Pessimism goes against the grain of the human condition, and for that matter, of the animal condition, and no doubt of the vegetable and fungous conditions as well. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And there is another preparation of the same: - The strongest vinegar of a white color, honey, Egyptian alum, the finest natron; having toasted these things gently, pour in a little gall; this cleanses fungous ulcers, renders them hollow, and is not pungent. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But when cleaned the wound must be dried, for thus the wound will most speedily become whole, when flesh devoid of humors grows up, and thus there will be no fungous flesh in the sore. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The sympathy of unlikeness might lead the scion of some family, hollow and fungous with antiquity, and as yet unmarked by a mesalliance, to be won over by her story; but the antipathy of resemblance would be ineradicable. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It was an afternoon which had a fungous smell out of doors, all being sunless and stagnant overhead and around. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But as to the persons that were attached to these noses, fancy any distortion, protuberance, and fungous embellishment that can be produced in the human form by high and gross feeding, by the bloating operations of malt liquors, and by the rheumy influence of a damp, foggy, vaporous climate. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Four more Ter-men, warriors by their looks, herded them through an archway into a large room which positively glowed with fungous light. ❋ Lumley, Brian (1986)

The place was lighted with the same fungous blue glow of the upper tunnels, which light was supplemented by the rather more rotten luminescence of- ❋ Lumley, Brian (1986)

We also had considerable plum pocket and fungous growth one season about ten years ago. ❋ Various (N/A)

I don't know whether I am out of place with this topic of mine or not with a Minnesota audience, but I came through the exhibit rooms as I came up to the hall, and whether you spray or not you certainly need to, for I saw all sorts of fungous diseases upon your fruit. ❋ Various (N/A)