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The family produced many distinguished men, the greatest of whom was Rullus, who was for that reason named Maximus by the Romans. From him Fabius Maximus, of whom I am now writing, was fourth in descent. His own personal nickname was Verrucosus, because he had a little wart growing on his upper lip.
She was further distinguished by a wart on her nose of such shape and dimensions that it gave her face the appearance of being fortified by a many-sided fort, which commanded the whole countenance.
"Thank you kindly," the Man with a Wart on His Nose replied, pocketing the money; "it is just the same to us as if you joined. Good-by." He went away, but in a little while he was back. "I quite forgot to mention the monthly dues," he said. The Divided Delegation
Some people's goodness is like a wart or a wen. Their virtues are cases of what medical technicality calls hypertrophy. But our goodness should be like harmonious Indian patterns, where all colours blend in a balanced whole. Such considerations enforce the necessity for rigid self-control. And that in two directions. The special form of error into which Barnabas fell is worth notice.
"They say, sir," said Darby, and as he spoke, his voice assumed a peculiar lisp, meant to express great modesty, "they say, sir, that when a man has a big wart on his nose there, like yer honor, it's not lucky to bate him, for that's the way the divil marks his own."
You know princes too, sir, but I know them better. They are gods on earth, and won't submit to the universal lot of mortals, to endure pain and anguish. When people are ill, the physician is summoned, and in trouble we are at hand. Things are as we take them the gravest face may have a wart, upon which a jest can be made. When you have once laughed at a misfortune, its sting loses its point.
There is always something connected with the use of that pronoun of kings which eats like a canker at the heart of men of the McGuffey breed. That officer now spat on the deck, in defiance of the rules of his superior officers, and glared at Captain Scraggs. "Speak for yourself, you miserable little wart," he roared.
It must be that it helps them to rejoice that they are so far away from home; but I always used to read it over there, I suppose to see how much fun I missed! And at a queer little place in Switzerland where we were staying I remember, because our landlord had the drollest wart on his chin a copy of the 'Courier' turned up on a rainy day and I read it through.
So far as I can see, there isn't another hill on either bank of the river, and yet that thing over there must be three or four hundred feet high, sticking up like a gigantic wart on the face of the earth. What is it? Solid rock?" "Sort like slate rock, I guess. There's a stretch of about a mile on both sides of the river along here that's solid rock.
"This is Sid Walmsly, nicknamed 'the worm, partly because that's the way we pronounce his name, but mostly because it's a long worm that has no turn, and Sid says he's always the one to be left out. You can remember him by the wart on his left knuckle. Next is Dick Garrett; he's assistant Patrol Leader. This thin, long-drawn-out morsel of sweet temper is Fred Nelson.
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