It dwells only in little minds and pinches them as dandy boots do the feet-covering them with excrescences as painful as corns and chilblains.
"Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution"
L. Carroll Judson
I put on a suit of rose-coloured velvet, with gold spangles, and I had the great honour of kissing a small hand, covered with chilblains, belonging to a boy of nine.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
He had supposed them pale and grave like the nun he had seen in the gallery, and almost all of them were red, freckled, crossing their poor hands swelled and wounded by chilblains.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans