sore-eaten

Updated: May 10, 2025

Certain ones had already begun to show on their hands and faces bluish-green spots, resembling mould signs of putrefaction. One man, without a nose, with an upper hare-lip cloven in two, had worms, like little white dots, swarming upon his sore-eaten face. A woman who had died from hydropsy, reared like a whole mountain from her board couch, bulging out the lid.

A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin - Yama: the pit