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You are sure you didn't see a tall, thin young man, with a wart on his chin, that was cut up?
They soon make themselves visible, as the body swells up with the blood they suck until they resemble small soft warts about as big as a pea.
It's the time for stories of twins joined at birth and how a routine trip to the hospital to have a wart removed leads to three-years incarceration.
I guess I'd rather be a girl than a nasty little boy with his hands simply covered with warts.
Well, that was originally intended for a bump, and, as you see, just succeeded in becoming a wart.
Let him have but a wart on his nose, and they will regard it as sufficient excuse for yielding.
"In the first place," said he, "you must alter the color of your hair, then you must have a false nose, and put a spot on some part of your face, or a wart, or a few hairs."
He went up to this tree and passed his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and count all the warts.
In a fortnight I had a wart on my finger which soon became large, and I then applied the blood of it to my neck.
Dissolve as much common washing soda as the water will take up; wash the warts with this for a minute or two, and let them dry without wiping.
Some likeness to his late Majesty was also discernible, in spite of the wart, out of which his uncle James made so much capital.
Pa says he would rather have a whole nest of warts than such a nose, but it will be all right in a year or two.
Corp scratched his head, then he bit his warts, then he spat upon his hands, then he said "Damn."
Presently the distant eight-o'clock bell rings, and then Sir Joseph looks anxiously at his warts, for this is the signal to begin, and as usual he has forgotten the words.
Freckles and warts, long noses and missing limbs distinguish the ghosts and aid in crucial identification.
Each pea being wrapped in paper by itself, and buried, the wart will vanish as the pea decays.
He became a parasite at the local stores and clubs, and was a wart on the grocer's counter.
His habits were as set as the wart on his nose and he proposed to change neither one nor the other.
Care should be taken not to allow this acid to touch any of the surrounding skin; to prevent this the finger or hand at the base of the wart may be covered with wax during the operation.
Warts are met with chiefly on the hands, and are often multiple, occurring in clusters or in successive crops.
In milder cases, the warts usually disappear if the parts are kept absolutely dry and clean.
Miss Mattie's disposition improved rapidly as soon as the old steel-bowed pair were in their rightful place, resting safely upon the wart.
Cromwell would have his warts painted; and Montaigne paints his, and paints them too with a certain fondness.
The cap is often covered with warts, or the skin torn into scales, and the stem sometimes inserted in a cup or socket.
We stoop to pick them up, and find them rooted to the ground and covered with warts and scales.
The cap is orange color, almost smooth, covered with a few spots like warts, and there are some lines on the margin.
"Because you will give me warts if I touch you," said Bobby, pleased to think that he had a good reason at last.
When he had warts or burns, he went to the white witch at Northam to charm them away; he thought that the sun moved round the earth, and that the moon had some kindred with a Cheshire cheese.
If one counts stars while lying on his back, he will have as many warts as he has counted stars.
Rub a white bean on the warts, wrap it in paper, and throw it on the road; whoever picks it up will get the warts.
If you find an old bone in the field, rub the wart with it, then lay it down exactly as you found it.
If a person has warts, he should rub them with a bone, and after replacing the bone they are said to leave.
Warts are cured by stealing pork from the family barrel of salted pork, rubbing the warts with it, and throwing it into the road.
Steal as many pins as you have warts, wrap them in paper, and throw them in the road: the warts will attack whoever picks up the paper, and leave you.
Rub warts with the head of a pin; hide the latter and do not look for it, or tie a knot in a string, lay it away, and do not look for it, and the warts will disappear.
Take a potato and rub it over the wart, then wrap the potato in a piece of paper and throw it away.
Especially in the significant case of warts, such rule of early medicine operates with full force.
I like to reflect that Cromwell had a wart on his nose; the thought makes me more contented with my own features.
Verily, if specialization of function means anything, some of these people will soon become huge gastric balloons with a little wart on top representing the atrophied brain structure.
Notice the wart upon the upper joint of the thumb, and the crook in the third finger where it has evidently been broken.
If he is looking at an old gentleman he sees a fly sitting upon the bald spot on his head, a wart on his nose, his collar pulled up behind.
The patient doesn't know this, and it's like a rabbit's foot or a piece of pork rubbed on a wart; it satisfies the mind and nature makes the cure.
The old time singing master with very light hair, a dyed mustache, a wart on his left eyelid, and with one game leg, was the pride of our rural society; he was the envy of man and the idol of woman.
Under other kinds of irritation, the skin has the power of growing curious little button-like buds, or projections, which we call warts.
A man who loses a wart off the end of his nose does not apply to the Ersatz bureau for a convenient substitute.
"Paint me just as I am, warts and all," said Oliver Cromwell to the artist who, thinking to please the great man, had omitted a mole.
I observed that warts were easily removed when contracted accidentally, but that those which appeared at the birth were no more to be removed than moles.
It was in my worldly disguise, that I determined to attempt my purpose; and as it was necessary to have a wart on my neck, I resolved to obtain one as soon as possible.
If, therefore, the wart you spoke of was not still remaining, the uncertainty would have been as great as ever.
Need it be said that in these few words I read the dismal sequel of Warts' unfortunate attachment?
Bill calmly took his seat on the left side of the room; crossed his legs, placed his fingers about the white wart, and then sat looking thoughtfully out of the window into the lighted street.
All this must be done so secretly as to escape detection: and as the portion of meat decays the warts will disappear.
When it comes to shape they are pretty much the same as this one, and when it comes to size, they look like warts beside it.
"Two capitals," responded Dicker, withdrawing his nervous glance from the wart, and locking his hands over one knee to quiet their trembling.
"For heaven's sake, do not grow into one of those people who only perceive the obvious; whose only knowledge of Cromwell would be that he had a wart on his nose."
Then up bare stairs to a room where a stout, pale, common woman with two warts on her face, was drinking tea.
The facts must be given, and the reader can decide whether they are beauty spots or warts upon the strong, patient, brave face upon which they appear.
He knew him at once by the wart on the upper part of his right cheek, which gave him a remarkable appearance.
This must be done nine nights successively, at the end of which times the wart will completely disappear.
This secretion will not injure a person's hands unless the skin is broken, and even then it does not "cause warts".
You rub the warts with a bean, wrap the bean up in the note, and burn both, or else throw them in the well.
In making even horizontal and clear inspections we color and mold according to the warts within us whatever our eyes bring in.
"I never saw a wart on a steer," spoke Bud, as he urged his pony nearer to where the strange cowboy stood on the ground close to the beef animal.
Here, too, they were attacked by a dreadful disease, terrible warts of great size breaking out upon them, of which several died.
Being a friendly and capable sort of wart, it held her steel-bowed spectacles at the proper angle for reading or knitting.
Cancer of the lip arises as a small lump, like a wart generally, on the lower lip in men from forty to seventy.
Warts most commonly appear on the hands of children, but may appear on any part of the body and at all ages.
To cure a boil or wart, we would take a hair from the tail of a horse and tie it tight around both sides of the sore place.
Cap covered with persistent warts, stem rough and rooting, odor strong of chloride of lime.
For a long time he thought that was a cancer on his nose, but it turned out to be only a wart.
Very often warts quickly disappear if they are kept soft by daily applications of sweet or olive oil.
Galen used it for everything, applied it to everything, said it would remove everything, from warts all the way through to lungs, and it generally did.
Warts and moles on the skin may develop into cancer, and should be removed if they show signs of irritation.
These noses were simply bamboos from five to ten feet long, some straight, some curved, some ribbed, and some with warts painted on them.
What would become of the world if every one who on looking into the glass discovered a wart on his face, were to cut his throat in despair at the fact?
There is a yellow band on the front of the second segment, a row of yellow spots on each side, and two little bright yellow warts on the back of each segment.
When he tried now to recall the manager of the cotton mills, it was to remember, with aversion, his angry little eyes, his high nasal voice, and the wart upon the end of his long nose.
The wart is a form of human trouble which appears to have been at all times and in all countries a special subject of charms, both in connection with wells and with pins.
I could not have left out the cyst upon the forehead of John Stuart Mill, or the warts upon the faces of Liszt or Joachim.
Here the sculptor left out the warts, with, it seems to me, a failure of judgment which affects the importance of the bust as art as well as its importance as a true image of the subject.
After which he sticks the pin in the tree, and the wart soon disappears, and grows on the tree instead.
Her face was brown and red as leather, and her stout little hands were always covered with warts and good brown earth, which had no terrors for her.
It was said of him that he was so mean that he grew a wart on the back of his neck to save buying a collar button!
Franklin was writing a word of warning as well as of hope for his posterity, and he painted himself, as Cromwell wished to be painted, wart and all.
Over his left eye he had a funny hairy wart, a sort of knob, and whenever he got excited it turned red.
Taking with his left hand a firm grip of a wart on the trunk, he raised himself in the water, and with the right hand drove his spear twice into the monster's throat.
It is a common belief that if you wash your hands in water in which eggs have been boiled, warts will make their appearance; also, that the blood of a wart will cause other warts.
Cures are effected by rubbing the warts with something, which is afterwards allowed to decay.
Aunt Jane looked at the clumsy little hands, brown, dirty, and covered with warts, and shook her head.
I can cure warts by rubbing them with my tailor's chalk; and I can live with my wife without beating her.
The wart or button that was intended for a nose was pushed up the face and in line with the gray eyes.
I believe that the artist who painted me did so not for the sake of literature, but for the sake of two symmetrical warts on my forehead, a natural phenomenon, he would say.
The budding begins in the form of a simple bulging from the side of the parent, something like a wart.
It is commonly held that washing the hands in water in which eggs have been boiled will produce a plentiful crop of warts.
Again, take a bag of stones, equal in number with the warts to be destroyed, and throw them over the left shoulder; the warts soon quit the thrower.
He is tall, rather a well-looking man; he hasn't a wart, but there is a scar on his brow, something like yours.
Collectively they were referred to as the Warts, Crabs, or Dogs' Bodies, and had to do what everybody else chose to tell them.
He had upon his nose neither a pink wart nor a green wart, nor a cream-colored wart, nor a wart of any other color.
The wart decides it, and the more widely the copy departs in other characteristics from the chosen person the more evident is it that the novelist did not wish his original to be known.
A wart just above the upper lip shows a coarse and cruel nature; a mole in the same place, love of the opposite sex.