Scars
[skɑr]
Examples
- How they showed their scars and sores, and piteously pointed to their maimed and crooked limbs, and begged with their pleading eyes for charity! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Cocoanuts, as most of us know, have a thick, hard shell, with three black scars at one end. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He then bared his legs and arms, and they were literally pitted with scars, due to the use of hypodermic syringes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That sort of regard, which he had proffered to her for so many faithful years, can't be flung down and shattered and mended so as to show no scars. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But with agriculture began the difficult task of squaring the lunar month with the solar year; a task which has left its scars on our calendar to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To Tarzan they stand out boldly against all the myriad other scars and bruises and signs upon the leafy way. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
Edited by Alta