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1. President of the United states set about conquering the canker of--Bureaucracy
2. It was the distinct canker of fear
3. My Progress!” His voice rose as he warmed to the canker which had plagued him
4. The name canker is the name generally used by
5. Depression eats the very core of your being and havocs like a canker
6. Cold sores should not be confused with canker sores, which are small ulcerations in the mouth
7. Canker: A slow dying of something; rotting; being consumed away slowly
8. The canker galls the infants of the spring,
9. My tongue moved over a canker sore that I was developing on the inside of my cheek
10. It was a fundamental principle of free Government that a Legislature which would preserve its liberty must avoid that canker, a standing army
11. — of the eggs of the canker worm, xxxviii, 385; xl, 211
1. His ambitions were now held captive to the inner darkness that cankered his soul and obscured his vision
2. “I pray you,” answered the minister, “if thou hast any means of pacifying the child, do it forthwith! Save it were the cankered wrath of an old witch, like Mistress Hibbins,” added he, attempting to smile, “I know nothing that I would not sooner encounter than this passion in a child
1. Of late it had been easy enough for me to look sad: a cankering evil sat at my heart and drained my happiness at its source—the evil of suspense
2. A cankering disease, due, it is believed, to the action of certain bacteria, presently seized upon it
1. Sin and apostasy could hide in the tiniest corner, and they would fester there like cankers, spreading their poison to even the most steadfast and faithful, if left uncleansed
2. Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds;