77 adjectives to describe scar

A tall smooth-shaven man, with an ugly scar down one cheek, lay outstretched on a divan at the foot of the after mast, his very posture proclaiming him dead.

No! rouse up the warrior to glory, and he shall return to you with honourable scars; fresh marks of valour shall cover his thigh; and then we shall renew the war-song and dance, and rehearse the story of our achievements.

Let this little scar be witness,' Then, as her eyes opened and she staggered, I caught her to my breast and hid my face on her shoulder.

Her face bore marks of considerable dissipation and there was a broad scar underneath her right eye.

His face, where it is not concealed by a heavy, grizzly beard, is covered by numerous scars, and the border of one eye is disfigured from the same cause.

You must never set words scowling and growling at each other through injudicious combinations like this: "She was five feet, four and three-quarter inches high, had a small, round scar between her nose and her left cheek-bone, and moved with the lissom and radiant grace of a queen.

¤¤¤ Henri, son of Francois second duke of Gruise, was called Le Balafré ("the gashed"), from a frightful scar in the face from a sword-cut in the battle of Dormans (1575).

"In this hour of thanksgiving our eternal gratitude goes out to those heroes who loved liberty better than life, who sleep yonder, where they fell; to the maimed, whose honorable scars testify stronger than words to their splendid valor, and to the brave fellows whose strong, relentless blows finally crushed the enemy's power.

In the latter case prominent scars result; in the former a smooth pattern.

"Ranaway a negro named Arthur, has a considerable scar across his breast and each arm, made by a knife; loves to talk much of the goodness of God.

I had only been here some weeks, when I discovered slight indications of a boil on my hand, which became large, but did not penetrate very deep, and left no permanent scar.

They're the most curious scars in the world, these scars transferred by repercussion from an injured Double.

Morse pulled up the sleeve of his coat and showed a long, ragged scar on the arm.

A livid, angry scar, smooth, yet scarcely healed, ran from his left temple back as far as she could see.

As for Carmel's looks, they were greatly changed, but beautiful still in spite of the cruel scar left by her fall against the burning bars of her sister's grate.

"But since you do mention it, I remember that he had a small triangular scar upon his left cheek.

A livid, angry scar, smooth, yet scarcely healed, ran from his left temple back as far as she could see.

We bear compassion for the idiots of to-day, but the modern editions of Greek idiotism, though loaded with the bloody scars of a hundred thousand orphans, and with the curse of millions, stand high in honour, and go on, proudly glorying in their criminal idiotism, heaping up the gold of the world.

At first the doctors said he would not get over it, then that if he got over it he would be an idiot; but finally their surgical skill and careful nursing were rewarded, and he came out well in every respect, except for an awful scar along one side of his head.

One wound, which leaves a lasting scar, is the result of an apparently trivial deception.

The inhabitants almost invariably have it on the faceeither on the cheek, forehead, or tip of the nosewhere it often leaves an indelible and disfiguring scar.

"Ranaway, John, has a scar on one of his hands extending from the wrist joint to the little finger, also a scar on one of his legs.

It was a great moment for Mr. Moffat; but for me all was confusion, dread, a veil of misty darkness, through which shone her face, marred by its ineffaceable scar, but calm as I had never expected to see it again in this life, and beautiful with a smile under which her deeply shaken and hardly conscious brother sank slowly back into his seat, amid a silence as profound as the hold she had immediately taken upon all hearts.

Now as he spake he loosed a corner of the war-cloak, and from its grimed and ghastly folds there rolled forth into the red light of the cleanly sun a thing that trundled softly across the pavement and stopping, shewed a pallid face crowned with red hair, 'neath which upon the brow, betwixt the staring eyes, was a jagged scar like to a cross.

He had no nose that you could recognize, although there were two blow- holes in place of nostrils with a hideous long scar above them.

77 adjectives to describe  scar