A place where leprous people are isolated from the rest of the population.
1In 1844, the New Brunswick government turned Sheldrake into a leper colony.
2The Island of Molokai, the leper colony, lay not far off.
3The doctor sacrificing his life in a leper colony is an extreme example.
4Do you think Brinkley Court is a leper colony or what is it?
5Create convict settlement for innocent people, now we'll be a leper colony, he texted.
6I guess for a leper colony it ain't so bad.
7My heart seemed to be purified, said one elderly man in this once-isolated leper colony.
8By the way they acted now, she might have just escaped from a leper colony.
9We'd have been as welcome as a leper colony.
10Maybe even build a leper colony for them.
11You will be sent to a leper colony.
12Honestly, we were like a leper colony here after Cardiff, but most of them stuck with me.
13Sale was for the benefit of her husband leper colony, which is twelve miles from her palace.
14Robben Island has served as a lunatic asylum, leper colony and prison throughout the 340 years since European settlers arrived.
15Croatia was ejected from this leper colony by virtue of the death of its megalomaniac autocrat and his replacement by ex-communists.
16The station was now a sepulchre of contagion, as forbidden and untouchable as a leper colony had been to the ancients.
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