| It had been, for more than two years, cankering the public mind. |
| His unfailing courage and good sense won fights that the incompetency or cankering jealousy of commanders had lost. |
| Believe me, they are deep and cankering when I think of Burton, not for myself, but another. |
| Avert the thought of it, and half a loaf will keep alive longer than a whole one, eaten together with cankering care. |
| But he no longer felt that cankering animosity towards authority. |
| Such a relief is physical danger to the slow and cankering disease of a despairing heart! |
