How To Use Chilblain In A Sentence
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It is used as a substitute for tar and as an external application for rheumatism or chilblains.
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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
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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
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As a result of these walks in the cold mornings I got bad chilblains on my hands.
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Allen kept staring at Earl's sternum, bare; the young, healthy skin fogged with red chilblain under the clumsy coat.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
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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
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I am too old to have anything other than chilblains as a sign of physical inflammation from the chest down.
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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
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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.
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Just ask the chilblained citizens of Minnesota.
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There are people who believe that their Sony-Ericsson scarab not only spreads sweetness and light, but can also cure chilblains.
IPhone worship has seen the media lose all sense of proportion
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To prevent chilblains, avoid exposure to cold.
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In the London cold, ‘She developed chilblains, and this annoyed her’.
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The soles of his feet were raw with chilblain.
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In addition, because the cold is more restrictive to your blood supply, you can suffer chilblains and damage to tissue.
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Consequently, this will result in chilblained or frostbitten hands, feet, and ears.
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Most went barefoot, and some suffered chilblains.
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When the chilblains vesicate, ulcerate or slough, it is better to omit the aconite and apply the other components of the liniment without it.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
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Allen kept staring at Earl's sternum, bare; the young, healthy skin fogged with red chilblain under the clumsy coat.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
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Spring and a release from scratchy underclothes and chilblains and runny noses and afternoon dusk and drafty passages.
Earl of Durkness
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If chilblains develop, don't scratch them; soothing lotions such as witch hazel or calamine will take away most of the discomfort.
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Childhood memories, of toasty firesides, warm bedtime drinks and even playing in the snow are all very quaint and charming but I can do without chilblains, in memory or in reality.
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In modern, centrally heated homes, chilblains occur less and less.
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Many people suffered badly with chilblains on their feet, hands or ears, but no uniform regulations were bent to allow for more protection for the sensitive areas which itched and caused a lot of discomfort.
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As a cream or ointment, it can be applied directly to bruises, sprains, strains, chilblains or painful varicose veins - but only on unbroken skin.
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The inevitable coughs and colds of winter, the chilblained hands and heels, kept him busy replenishing the medicine cupboard in the infirmary, and thanks to the necessary brazier his timber workshop was somewhat warmer to work in than the carrels of the scriptorium.
The Confession of Brother Haluin
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DESCRIPTION: A chilblain is the swelling and inflammation of body tissue as a result of exposure to cold temperatures.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
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Undue muscle tension causes bodily deformity, and vagotonia results in the production of such conditions as chilblains, asthma, intestinal trouble, etc.
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Standing, barefooted in the dew-lush grass of spring on the Minnesota farm, chilblained when of frosty mornings I fed the cattle in their breath-steaming stalls, sobered to fear and awe of the splendor and terror of God when I sat of Sundays under the rant and preachment of the New Jerusalem and the agonies of hell-fire.
Chapter 6
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As a cream or ointment, it can be applied directly to bruises, sprains, strains, chilblains or painful varicose veins - but only on unbroken skin.
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The rapid change in temperature can lead to chilblains and dry skin.
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January, February, and March bring a great cold, and inhumane conditions of food and weather for the girls - long marches to church in the blistering cold wind, swollen and flayed fingers and feet, and chilblains on the hands.
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His hands turned red and chilblained from the water into which the potatoes dropped.
Son of a Witch
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Allen kept staring at Earl's sternum, bare; the young, healthy skin fogged with red chilblain under the clumsy coat.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
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From the same cause, the captain himself and several of his people had their fingers and toes chilblained.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
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Her burning throat was raw from hurling Christmas carols out against the keening wind in an effort to tempt passersby to purchase the rolls of music clutched in her chilblained fingers.
A GIFT OF LOVE
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(_c_) Frequently the whole foot is like a big "chilblain" and is very hot, red and swollen.
1914
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her poor chilblained hands
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A few years back I ignored the need for winter socks and got a mild attack of chilblains, the first I've had since I was a child and, if I can so engineer it, the last I shall ever have.
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In fact, some of it is downright worth the chilblains.
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Perhaps one of the chilblain-fingered girls behind the counters down below had been the "Sympathiser" to whom she had been indebted for a shilling.
Mrs. Day's Daughters
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The train is full of very painful feet: like a form of large burning chilblain all over the foot, and you can't do anything for them, poor lambs.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915
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When sliced, and applied externally, the raw Onion serves by its pungent and essential oil to quicken the circulation, and to redden the skin of the particular surface treated in this way; very usefully so in the case of an unbroken chilblain, or to counteract neuralgic pain; but in its crude state the bulb is not emollient or demulcent.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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Elderly people, whose circulation is less efficient than it used to be, people who don't take enough exercise, and those suffering from anaemia, are also susceptible to chilblains.
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With Spartan fortitude he had to squeeze his chilblained feet into wet socks and soggy boots frozen solid.
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He carried on working to the end - dressed in the high starched collar and cravat of his youth and dispensing old-fashioned remedies, medicines, and cures which he prepared himself, for ailments as diverse as bronchitis and chilblains.
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The best approach to chilblains is to avoid developing it by limiting exposure to cold, dressing warmly and covering exposed skin.
Health News from Medical News Today
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It's one of those stuffy phrases coined by the bureaucrats upstairs, hunched at their desks with a drip on their nose and frayed cuffs and patched elbows, their chilblained feet squeezed into their cracked patent-leather shoes and a mug of cold tea beside them as they scratch the epitaph across the file in longhand, like vultures picking at the bones of a dead mission.
Northlight
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Tartars are affildled with ulcers, made by the cold, of the nature of what we call chilblains, but greatly worfe; and m Poland and Lithuania there rei {ns a peculiar difeafc called the plica poknlcaf fo terribly painful and pflfenHve, that fcarce any thing can be thought oi worie.
Encyclopædia britannica;
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But I was not so to be finished off, though feeling in my knuckles now as if it were a blueness and a sense of chilblain.
Lorna Doone
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My fellow man sent me to the chilblain capital of the world," Petinos retorted.
Bridge of the Separator
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Once upon a time David Duckham, a genuine genius, stood on the wing at Twickenham and could count chilblains in bigger numbers than passes.
Six Nations 2011: No need to turn tank-stoppers into ballerinas | Eddie Butler
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Spring and a release from scratchy underclothes and chilblains and runny noses and afternoon dusk and drafty passages.
Earl of Durkness
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You would simply prioritise the foot that had more chilblains.
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I know you’re fussy, so I’ll tell you straight out …. .ummm … …. arrr … …. .ahhhhh … .. there’s only one ‘l’ in chilblains.
Smoke
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If you still have some Sudocreme lurking around your flat from when Tadpole was in nappies, use it on your chilblains.
Smoke
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In the long run this may lead to chilblained hands and/or feet.
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Today he could not imagine such heat; he knew by the time they reached Branton, his fingers and toes would be chilblained.
The Falcons of Montabard
