Bruised

Examples

• Wounded too, and bruised. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The die is the same as the porochial seal--the Good Samaritan healing the sick and bruised man. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Already the knowledge that Dorothea had chosen Mr. Casaubon had bruised his attachment and relaxed its hold. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Did He not say that his mission, in all ages, was to bind up the broken-hearted, and set at liberty them that are bruised? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• In doing so, she displaces the mother's dress, but quickly readjusts it over the wounded and bruised bosom where the baby has been lying. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• When thoroughly dry it is grained with a toothed instrument on the flesh side and bruised on the grain or hair side for the purpose of softening the leather. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He was badly hurt and bruised, and no small quantity of arnica was needed for his wounds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Will had bruised her pride too sorely for her to feel any compunction towards him and Dorothea: her own injury seemed much the greater. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She was bruised and scratched and torn, and had been held by the throat, at last, and choked. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He had a badly bruised face, said I, recalling what I hardly knew I knew. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The other convict was livid to look at, and, in addition to the old bruised left side of his face, seemed to be bruised and torn all over. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The poor creature ran with her head down, her tongue hanging out; she looked as if bruised and beaten all over. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Yet I was so weak and bruised in the sides with the squeezes given me by this odious animal, that I was forced to keep my bed a fortnight. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Several bruised and bloody members of both parties were carried off by the police and imprisoned until the following morning. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Better, I could not help saying, to have left her a natural heart, even to be bruised or broken. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He felt bruised and shattered, and there was a dark line under his eyes which Rosamond had not seen before. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• When cut into small pieces the fodder is considerably bruised, and there is much more exposure of the juices to the air than there is where whole fodder is used. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• She waited for the awful moment when the doctors might lift this hand, all broken and bruised, and let it fall. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Caroline, more timid and less dexterous, fell once or twice, and bruised herself; but she rose again directly, saying she was not hurt. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She bruised her hands with hammering, and got cold working in a draft, which last affliction filled her with apprehensions for the morrow. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Oliver's clothes had been torn in the beating he had received; his face was bruised and scratched; and his hair scattered over his forehead. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Down he fell into the chasm, crackling down among trees, bushes, logs, loose stones, till he lay bruised and groaning thirty feet below. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And the sharp, heavy bruise of ice bruised his living bowels. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He grinned at that sweatily because the leg, where the big nerve had been bruised by the fall, was hurting badly now. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Now he's more like himself; though he's badly bruised,--when this man that was, rows out upon the river on his usual lay. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This was a difficult matter for one so bruised and faint; and, as Tom made efforts to do so, Legree laughed brutally. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Typist: Sophie