The tree cannot come to flower till its root be free from the cankering worm, and its whole growth open to air and light. |
Believe me, they are deep and cankering when I think of Burton, not for myself, but another. |
It had been, for more than two years, cankering the public mind. |
But he no longer felt that cankering animosity towards authority. |
Avert the thought of it, and half a loaf will keep alive longer than a whole one, eaten together with cankering care. |
Such a relief is physical danger to the slow and cankering disease of a despairing heart! |