A lazar house draws him on, and he needs must reach it, weak and ill-fed though he is!

Leaving its natal threshold of earth and the lazar house of time, its home is immensity, and its lease is eternity.

They correspond to the lepers who thronged the lazar houses of the Middle Ages.

I have tracked him, then, to this Lazar House.

In the Middle Ages such dwellings administered by a Christian order were called lazar houses, after the parable of Lazarus the beggar.

And of those taken into the lazar houses it was written: The leper brothers are to remain by themselves, and likewise the sisters by themselves.