| His unfailing courage and good sense won fights that the incompetency or cankering jealousy of commanders had lost. |
| It had been, for more than two years, cankering the public mind. |
| A cankering disease, due, it is believed, to the action of certain bacteria, presently seized upon it. |
| The tree cannot come to flower till its root be free from the cankering worm, and its whole growth open to air and light. |
| Such a relief is physical danger to the slow and cankering disease of a despairing heart! |
| But he no longer felt that cankering animosity towards authority. |
