The refuse vegetables, the washings, the liquid and solid rubbish generally is cast out into the ditch, often open to the highway road, and there festers till the first storm sweeps it away.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
The lesions of ergotism do not take the form of ulcers or festers, but the end of the limb affected is diseased "in toto" and the eruption extends entirely around the limbs, followed soon afterwards by a distinct line of demarcation between the healthy skin above and the diseased below.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
It lances life's old festers granting a mood of the new.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills