1 If not, why, let 'em fester in.'
2 By way of healing the rusty fester of the poisoned dart she sought the face that all day long she had been seeking.
3 Just when she needed her strength most, this toe had to fester.
4 The insult was terrible, and although unknown to the rest of the world, I felt it live and fester at the bottom of my heart.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS 5 They were the drainage of the great festering ulcer of society; they were hideous to look upon, sickening to talk to.
6 I have frequently felt her head, and found it nearly covered with festering sores, caused by the lash of her cruel mistress.
7 The preacher's knife had probed deeply into his disclosed conscience and he felt now that his soul was festering in sin.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 8 His sins trickled from his lips, one by one, trickled in shameful drops from his soul, festering and oozing like a sore, a squalid stream of vice.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 9 Come, Victor; not brooding thoughts of vengeance against the assassin, but with feelings of peace and gentleness, that will heal, instead of festering, the wounds of our minds.
10 Most of them were disfigured by frost-bitten noses and cheeks, and nearly all had red, swollen and festering eyes.
11 She slipped off her worn shoe and, barefooted, she pattered swiftly to the bureau, not even feeling her festered toe.