1599 examples of scar in sentences

"A tall, burly man, with a bushy beard, the top of his little finger on the left hand missing, and a long white scar over his right eyebrow.

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

Furnish each with a description of the man they are to look after, be particular about the scar upon his left cheek, and if they see him, tell them that they are not to lose sight of him, happen what may.

It ran as follows "Man with triangular scar upon left cheek, brown bag and travelling rug, boarded train at Herne Hill, went through to Dover, and has booked to Paris.

The advertisement gave the following clue: there are "two marks by which he is easily known, viz., on the back of each arm, about two or three inches above the wrist, a small roundish scar, less than a silver penny, like a large mark of the small-pox.

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

The ruling lords, no doubt, looked down with a lofty disdain on the ignoble growler, and believed, not without reason, that they were far superior; but fashionable corruption in and out of the senate secretly trembled in the presence of the old censor of morals with his proud republican bearing, of the scar-covered veteran from the Hannibalic war, and of the highly influential senator and the idol of the Roman farmers.

" "What's the matter with him?" growled the scar-faced man, none too anxious to start an open quarrel with the formidable Kilduff.

Yonder darkling brow, rugged, gloomy looking, was Nab Scar; yonder green slope of sunny pasture, stretching wide its two arms as if to enfold the valley, was Fairfield; and here, close on the left, as he faced the lake, were Silver Howe and Helm Crag, with that stony excrescence on the summit of the latter known as the 'Lion and the Lamb.'

" "Ranaway, a negro man named Allen, he has a scar on his breast, also a scar under the left eye, and has two buck shot in his right arm.

"Was committed, a negro man, has a scar on his right side by a burn, one on his knee, and one on the calf of his leg by the bite of a dog.

"Ranaway, Edmundhas a scar on his right temple, and under his right eye, and holes in both ears.

"Ranaway, the negro man Hardyhas a scar on the upper lip, and another made with a knife on his neck.

"Ranaway, Ishamhas a scar upon the breast and upon the under lip, from the bite of a dog.

"Committed to jail, a negro man Cary, a large scar on his forehead.

I got a scar big as the place my old mis' hit me.

Miss Dartle is a vindictive woman, noted for a scar on her lip, which told tales when her temper was aroused.

This scar was from a wound given by young Steerforth, who struck her on the lip when a boy.C. Dickens, David Copperfield (1849).

The left half of her face was disfigured by a huge flaming scar, and he saw that she had but one hand.

I also saw a boy with the scar of a severe wound on his wrist; the story being that he had first burned himself slightly by accident, and, liking the keenness of the new sensation, he took the next opportunity of repeating the experience, but, idiot-like, he overdid it.

The man that bears a quick and steady eye, And trusts in God, and his own lusty thews, Passes, with scarce a scar, through every danger.

I preferred the Pursuit of Fame at that time to all other Considerations, and tho' I was not absolutely bent on a Wooden Leg, resolved at least to get a Scar or two for the good of Europe.

But I remember that on your left shoulder you have a scar as big as a copper piece.

But the officers, on uncovering his shoulder, brought a scar to view.

They might be freed from many scruples and objections that scar and discourage them.

1599 examples of  scar  in sentences