pustulant

They had no equal in cleaning pustulant wounds without damage to the healthy flesh nearby.

Now it was turning an evil, pustulant scarlet.

Vale clutched his rifle to his pustulant chest and smiled emptily.

His stomach, full of blackberries and Speedy's pustulant 'magic juice,' rolled over, groaning.

Alex becomes a pustulant half-man-half-beast who makes his carnival stage debut soliloquizing from "Richard III."

Lily was able to see the pebbled skin beneath the tattered shirt, the pustulant eruptions, the skin of his face separating like torn tissue paper.

I had seen the rotting stumps of teeth embedded in pustulant gums, and the thought of him kissing me, let alone-I choked the thought off.

White translates Putana as "stinky", and relates it to pustulant sores, the eruption of which is a symptom of chicken pox.

De Haven's penchant for grotesquerie, which served him well in the gouty, pustulant Old New York realms of his earlier novels, merely seems curdled and gratuitous here.

Aristotle reported that it was believed Alcman died from a pustulant infestation of lice (phthiriasis), but he may have been mistaken for the philosopher Alcmaeon of Croton.

This was a truly repellent mound of pro- toplasm, but when the pustulant creature opened its mouth to break wind, the other wretches displayed a strange deference, instantly falling silent and paying rapt attention to Gelbart's words.

He was standing no more than a foot away from me, close enough that I could smell the sweet-sour odor of him: ancient sweat and dirt in his rags, and something else, some faint aroma that spoke of pustulant sores and unhealed wounds.

He pressed home the trig- ger, holding it down for sustained fire, and his weapon spurted a screaming hail of machine-gun bullets directly into the pustulant thing; a second stream of bullets from close behind him told him that the quick-witted Best had followed his lead.

While the pustulant white glow hunting them had this quality: that its light illumined nothing it fell on, but rather darkened it, as if it carried the essence of the anti-light along with it, as if it existed solely to make visible the terror of the bergship.

Their flesh, yellow and pustulant, began to firm up visibly under the illumination.

It is a most powerful drastic cathartic, and is used externally as a pustulant.