How To Use Leper In A Sentence

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Matthew, in annexing this cure to that of the leper, who was a Jew, intimates this; the leprous Jews Christ touched and cured, for he preached personally to them; but the paralytic Gentiles he cured at a distance; for to them he did not go in person, but sent his word and healed them; yet in them he was more magnified. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
Nor, after having been declared a leper, is the patient immediately rushed off to Molokai. Chapter 7
Now, it is clear that this sacrifice is brought as a consequence of impurity from the fact that the same sacrifice of two turtle-doves or two pigeons is brought by a leper, a woman who has had an impure issue, and one who has just given birth.
Every afternoon, the lepers would gather at the fence to mock the lunatics as they were let out for their exercise, performing their strange dances and shouting at unseen persecutors.

His unpopular views made him a social leper.
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. Chapter 7
The tour, which also takes in the Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, the Terrace of the Elephants and Terrace of Leper Kings, as well as the famous Ta Prohm temple, ends with a gentle boat ride from the south gate to the west gate of Angkor Thom, where guests are picked up and taken to the five-star Hôtel de la Paix in nearby Siem Reap. Memories Worth 1,000 Pradas
The pleasure of the poet, and the reader, is seeing these mean little memes circulating freely, doing their damage, a leperous distilment poured into the porches of our ears. Hullabaloo
Such a leper is a lonely outcast, living in constant fear of discovery and slowly and surely rotting away. Chapter 7
The tiny Chapel of St Mary Magdalen was established for lepers and blind priests in the early 12th century by Thurstan, the Archbishop of York who founded Fountains Abbey.
He has pressed palms with presidents and paupers, gurus and lepers on his journeys across continents.
The leper's dogs came out and bayed at us, and we stumbled around till we got lost. The Sheriff of Kona
His outspoken views have made him a social leper.
In 1909, the U. S. Government assumed control of the leper settlement at Molokai.
“Innocence always calls mutely for protection,” the book warns, “when we could be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.” Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
Stories about him include the usual details of lepers and sores and obviously he was nervous about women, thinking they needed to be kept separate even after death.
But the segregation of the lepers on Molokai is not the horrible nightmare that has been so often exploited by YELLOW writers. Chapter 7
Very well, madam," Kelson said, carefully concealing a smile, "here is what you want -- wear it next your heart;" and he gave her a locket, containing a magnes microcosmi charged with the essence of life of a leper, which he had procured at considerable risk and expense. The Sorcery Club
Cortés built a leprosarium, the Hospital de San Lázaro, named for the patron saint of lepers, in Tlaxpana, outside Mexico City. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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. Chapter 7
The poison theme is admirably heightened so that we see David Rubin's fine Claudius miming the insertion of the "leperous distilment" into old Hamlet's ear even as the Ghost describes it, and later Rubin whips a toxic bottle out of his pocket to envenom Laertes's sword. Culture | guardian.co.uk
Smokers are seen as social lepers to many.
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons.
Today, the term leper is often used to refer to a person excluded from society. Leprosy
Members of other orders may, if they choose, gallop across the tundra to succour outcast Siberian lepers, or go white-water rafting in Katmandu, but a Benedictine takes vows of poverty, chastity, and stability.
Chapters are organized by major Franciscan currents: life in poverty; care of the lepers; the role of hermitages; the theology of the cross; and love for God's creation.
Armies that ran out of rocks for their catapults would sometimes lob live lepers into besieged towns to scare the inhabitants.
Next to the small psychiatric hospital, with its yard enclosed by a high wire fence, was the leper colony.
Imagine how the crowds gasped when Jesus reached out and touched the leper.
In their free time, they cure lepers or build houses for entire villages in South America.
Francis of Assisi kisses his lepers; Margaret Mary Alacoque, Francis Xavier, St. John of God, and others are said to have cleansed the sores and ulcers of their patients with their respective tongues; and the lives of such saints as Elizabeth of Hungary and Madame de Chantal are full of a sort of reveling in hospital purulence, disagreeable to read of, and which makes us admire and shudder at the same time. The Varieties of Religious Experience
Therefore, my social interaction had severely declined, leaving me the equivalent to a social leper.
The newspaper article had branded her a social leper not fit to be seen in company.
He is a kind of leper in the medical world, shunned by his peers and out of favor with his bosses.
Jesus healed Simon's mother and cleansed a leper in Galilee.
Members of other orders may, if they choose, gallop across the tundra to succour outcast Siberian lepers, or go white-water rafting in Katmandu, but a Benedictine takes vows of poverty, chastity, and stability.
Doctors among the lepers work with scant supplies, forgotten by the economically surging First World.
Smoking from the age of 16 means that I have spent a fortune over 24 years to smell like an ashtray, damage my health and feel like a social leper.
If any man should be aware of the uses and sweets of friendship, is it not the moral leper known to the world as a spy, to the mob as a _mouchard_, to the department as an “agent”? Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
Deeply inspired, Baker promptly came back to India as an architect and began to build treatment centers for lepers.
[Illustration: RODRIGO AND THE LEPER] "Rodrigo forthwith set out upon the road, and took with him twenty knights. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
Our first port of call was the lepers cemetery whose tombstones are still clearly inscribed with the biodata of those resting beneath them.
Rudy McBagel cheez whiz looks like something that oozed from a lepers toe. Magdy’s Philly Cheese Steak Cart | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
Ran means chaos and the form of the film becomes more chaotic as it goes, starting in a very stately style that falls apart as the king undergoes his metamorphosis from godlike being to spiritual leper.
The wretches who have been for three years pouring their leperous distilment into the ears of Great Britain had preoccupied the ground, and were determined to silence the minister, if they could. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
Florence Margaret Rose, Aug. 11, 1917; specialist in diseases of eye, ear, nose and throat; Philippine health service 1912-14; research Gulion leper colony 1915; British govt. service, Sandakau and Jesselton, B.N. Borneo, 1916-21; travel and study in Europe, 1921-23; Methodist Episcopal. Alumni History of the University of North Carolina
He turned his back on his privileged background to care for lepers in Africa.
Yea, I loved you all, the giant and the pygmy, the leper and the anointed.
Smokers seem to be the lepers of modern society.
The saint and the leper embrace and the leper is miraculously healed.
In 1st century palatine those who were lepers were literally cast out of society.
Now leprosariums have been built to help lepers to live normal lives with other able-bodied people.
Lepers rather than some divine revelation or act formed the chiastic center. Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography.
Jesus's order to the healed and purified leper that he go to the priest to offer the ritual sacrifices as commanded by Moses should be followed by this meaning of "eis marturion autois": "as a testimony against them Blogging from Singapore's SBL Conference: Thursday
It provided for blind priests, lepers and other poor people in need of care.
He kept his fan-tan game running and was delighted one day to find that the leper ferry had brought him a Cantonese man, near death, who had managed to hide out in Iwilei for two years before the quack herbalist turned him in, and who was as good a gambler as he. Hawaii
With these hands I have blessed bread and wine, I have touched the leper and the blind.
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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. Chapter 7
The aim will be to make you a leper, an untouchable.
For the eleven years that Annalise had lived in Lawrenceville she had always been considered a social leper.
Another and sadder "mickle" has been the departure of ten lepers for The Hawaiian Archipelago
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. The Quiet American
It is all that remains of the leper colony which once occupied the site.
So strange was she, so in daze and amaze and far-seeing were her eyes, that I was reminded of the lepers I had seen healed in Samaria. Chapter 17
There, Sethi was helping patients wobble down the corridor on their crutches, and I was teaching lepers to make handicrafts.
The film shows his young caring and human soul, but by the end of the film you get a sense of what Ernesto will turn into and how his mind is affected by certain inequalities this world offered (such as his trip to the mines, seeing the high amount of poverty in South America, and how the lepers were treated). New Photos of Benicio Del Toro in Steven Soderbergh's Che « FirstShowing.net
I am afraid that if I do speak out, against all that he has done, I will become a social leper.
During those years she has raised thousands of pounds for the lepers who find themselves ostracised.
The project will involve training and building opportunities for the children of lepers who are often ostracised for a disease they do not have.
He built an hospital for the sick of all kinds, but the objects of his predilection were the lepers, and those hopelessly afflicted. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
All societies, cultures and organizations have a few of this kind of moral leper who believe that they are more important than the ethic that made them what they are.
Can I find it within myself to approach this person as just another human being and not a pariah, a leper?
Their inhabitants tended to be settlers, often Flemings or Germans from the continent, privileged in handling trade, minting coins, and keeping up a limited welfare provision of almshouses and leper houses.
The word 'demented' like 'nutter' or 'lunatic' is a real barrier to sufferers, such as myself, in discussing mental illness, and so overcoming the terrible awkwardness that makes us feel like social lepers. The Guardian World News
In the early 1930s, the lepers were removed from the island and all the buildings burnt down.
The blind could see, the lame could walk, lepers were cleansed, the deaf could hear, the dead had been raised, and the poor had good news.
Winner of the coveted Palme d' Or for his 1989 debut Sex, Lies and Videotape, he subsequently proceeded to reinvent himself as a Hollywood leper with a string of critical and commercial failures.
¶ Playe not Iacke maleperte, _tha_t ys to say, be ware of presumpc_i_on, be ware of pryde; 492 take not _th_e first place, my child, by _th_e waye; till [e] oder be sette, ryght manerly a-byde, presumtvous be ofte sette a-syde Caxton's Book of Curtesye
We are like the people of a leper colony.
Risking his life, Ernesto, who is asthmatic, swims across the river to declare his solidarity with the lepers.
As an example, under _Distilment_ he correctly quotes from _Hamlet_, 'And in the porches of mine ears did pour the leperous distilment.' The evolution of English lexicography
And thereat I told of the healing of the ten lepers I had witnessed in Samaria on my way through Jericho. Chapter 17
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 Report: Clinton able to continue run by postponing debt repayment
By Tuesday morning, she was a social leper.
Jesus healed sickness and disease, fed 5,000, restored sight, cleansed lepers and raised the dead.
It became conspicuous in medieval Europe, prompting the founding of “lazar houses,” or refuges where doomed lepers could rot apart from “clean” folk. Religion
His Superintendent asked for a priest to go to the island of Molokai where a colony of lepers lived in appalling conditions.
He must be henceforth treated like a moral leper to satisfy our conviction that endless ongoing punishment without mercy is ours to mete out to him forever.
Jesus welcomed outsiders: a Samaritan leper, a Syro-Phoenician woman, a Roman centurion, the good Samaritan and others.
Before the new Shakespeare Society, 1882, it was contended and proved to the satisfaction of the Society, that "the cursed Hebena," the "leperous distilment poured into the chambers of mine ears," told of, so pathetically, by the sad ghost of Hamlet's father, was the Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
Yeah, Norton gained incredibly good reviews as his performance as the Leper Prince of Jerusalem. euge Stone Promo Trailer Featuring Edward Norton, Robert De Niro and Mila Jovovich | /Film
He touched lepers, forgave sinners, blessed the poor and consorted with tax collectors.
However, years spent among the farmers, fishermen, lepers and slum dwellers of more than 20 different countries rid Stackhouse of these easy assumptions.
The newspaper article had branded her a social leper not fit to be seen in company.
She was pretty much a social leper anyway, and she liked it that way.
Because he healed their lame and cleansed their lepers and brought light to their blind and raised their dead, that is why he died.
The newspaper article had branded her a social leper not fit to be seen in company.
As the smoker has become a pariah, sufferers from lung cancer have become the lepers of the twenty-first century.
I went to Kalaupapa in Molokai and entertained lepers years ago.
If you take the moral, religious approach, then those who can't abstain or can't be faithful are going to be considered social lepers and cast out.
And in the porches of mine ears did pour The leperous distilment; whose effect The plays of William Shakespeare. In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
The group has already taken six lepers who could not be accommodated at Lukupa Leprosarium to Kawama Transit Centre.
Board of Health, and the leper is ordered straight to Molokai. Chapter 7
Smokers are being treated like lepers, the new outcasts in a health police state gone out of control.
Oh yes, and health inspectors should be belled like lepers.
Lepers were separated in leper hospitals built with private charity because people were afraid of defilement.
Despite evidence in the 40s that leprosy was rarely contagious and easily treated, lepers were banished to remote islands until 1996.
As Minister of Health he reorganized care for lepers, and in 1926 he became Minister of Internal Affairs.
But the segregation of the lepers on Molokai is not the horrible nightmare that has been so often exploited by Chapter 7
And anon the apostle made his prayer, saying: O God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, which hast given to us such power that we enlumine the blind, and cleanse the lepers, I desire and require that this multitude might be healed, and they all answered, Amen. The Golden Legend, vol. 5
Time allowed 07:09 Read in studio Archaeologists excavating the site of a medieval leper hospital have unearthed a Roman cemetery.
Principals saw the girls as bad schoolyard influences and priests shunned them as moral lepers.
These are men who, within the short span of three weeks, brought life, hope and joy to a leper colony, simply by offering handshakes.
But the loathly "leperous distilment" taints and spoils, without in any way subserving "perfection," artistic or otherwise. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890
In the first place, the leper is not torn ruthlessly from his family. Chapter 7
But when a leper discloses that his blind wife is about to give birth, Max comes to the rescue.
They finally come to the leper colony, where the lepers live in a shantytown on one side of the Amazon.
And what "leperous distilment" does one pour on a porch? Hullabaloo
He must be henceforth treated like a moral leper to satisfy our conviction that endless ongoing punishment without mercy is ours to mete out to him forever.

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