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• The leech on his leg had swelled to more than five inches long, puffed and swollen on his blood.
• At this point, I felt this man was a leech. I suspected that he had spent a lifetime living off the good will of women that he met.
• 'Wrecked his body and his mind, no use to hisself or his family or nobody, just a leech on society'.
• The poppy made him sleep and while he slept they leeched him to drain off the bad blood.
• Bert leeched hundreds of files from the BBS, but never uploaded anything in return.
• Guinea is also blocking Strasser's efforts to stop illegal fishing in Sierra Leone's territorial waters and the smuggling of gold and diamonds, which leech hundreds of millions of dollars from the country's economy.
• Thus virtuous Orsin was endued / With learning, conduct, fortitude / Incomparable; and as the prince / Of poets, Homer, sung long since, / A skilful leech is better far, / Than half a hundred men of war [...]
• He coughed sputum stained with blood, and a scraping, crackling noise came from his chest, quite audible to anyone in the room. ‘Lungs possibly not too good,’ the leech said.
• Their functions are threefold, those of the medicine-man (the leech, or healer by supernatural means); of the soothsayer (the prophet through communion with the invisible world); and of the priest, especially in his capacity as exorcist
• "Leech?" "Not another doctor".
• In ancient times runesters were a specialized class separate from that of the witch or ordinary spell caster (much as the other specialists such as the leech or healer and the seithkona were different from a witch), and even today many believe it takes years of training to become adept at using the runes in spell work.
• There are many kinds of "Leech" or "healer" as there are healing techniques, some are more powerful than others and some are very specific to certain illnesses and complaints; some use potions and unguents, others crystals and stones, others galdr and some work their healing from within the hidden realms themselves.
• To help combat these problems, almost all sailmakers trim the leeches of their headsails to a hollow or concave profile and enclose a LEECHLINE within the leech tabling.
• Trim the leech of the jib parallel to the main by watching the slot between the mainsail and the jib.