"Cankerous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mystery is developed. In vain the massy bars, cemented with their cankerous rust, opposed my entrance—in vain the heated suffocating damps enveloped me—in vain the hungry flames flashed their vengeance round me! What could oppose a man struggling to know his fate? I forced the doors, a firebrand was my guide, and among many evidences of blood and guilt, I found—these! ...
— Speed the Plough - A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden • Thomas Morton
... hill-sides, looking south, The vines were brown with cankerous rust, The earth was hot with summer drouth, And all the ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 • Various |
