a sharp pain; the sharp and frosty winter air

The patient's mother has Carney syndrome, with lentigines, cardiac myxoma, fibroadenoma of the breast, and a fibroepithelial polyp of the external auditory canal.

At the church sociables he used to hop around among them, chipping and chirping like a dicky-bird picking up seed; and he was a great hand to play the piano, and sing saddish, sweetish songs to them.

He had also a collection of stapelias and other small prickly plants; some of them were almost invisible without a magnifying glass, but most interesting.