To lie physically helpless, a burden and a care to the one person who, at that time, was most out of love with her, was humiliation of the most Cankering variety.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
But he no longer felt that Cankering animosity towards authority.
"Command"
William McFee
But on the fire burns, clear and still; The Cankering sorrow dies; The small wounds heal; the clouds are rent, And through this shattered mortal tent Shine down the eternal skies.
"Christian's Mistake"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik