chilblain

How To Use chilblain In A Sentence

• It is used as a substitute for tar and as an external application for rheumatism or chilblains.
• The thought of chapped hands and chilblains was almost terrifying, and his heart sank at sight of the double storm-windows, which he knew were solidly fastened and unraisable, while the small ventilating panes, the size of ladies 'handkerchiefs, smote him with sensations of suffocation. THE PRODIGAL FATHER
• Mind, and muscle, and stamina, and soul, were challenged in a contest with this Shorty, a man who had never opened the books, and who did not know grand opera from rag-time, nor an epic from a chilblain. THE STAMPEDE TO SQUAW CREEK
• As a result of these walks in the cold mornings I got bad chilblains on my hands.
• Allen kept staring at Earl's sternum, bare; the young, healthy skin fogged with red chilblain under the clumsy coat. ABSOLUTE ZERO
• It is not easy to believe that others are more successful, but the popular renown of the specific survives in spite of all, probably thanks to a simple accident of identity between the name of the remedy and that of the infirmity: the Provençal for "chilblain" is _tigno_. Social Life in the Insect World
• I am too old to have anything other than chilblains as a sign of physical inflammation from the chest down.
• You don't hardly hear of chilblain feet now, but then most every child you saw had cracked heels. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4
• There was no change of clothing to be had; wet boots enclosed ill-stockinged, chilblained feet; bodies remained unwashed through lack of basic facilities, or from sheer tiredness.
• Just ask the chilblained citizens of Minnesota.