Do we say scared or scarred

scared 1421 occurrences

"Why, baby, it's natural at first maybe a girl should be so scared.

A man like Father Richmond has to be scared into a cassock.

And a very scared and humiliated midshipman it was who now stood up, a bit unsteadily, and tried to smooth down his uniform.

They told me that the boy had been pale for some time, with a scared look.

We are proud to state, although massive buildings quivered and great cities were scared, that Mr. PUNCHINELLO was not in the least shaken.

"She used to have us scared to death with 'em.

Well, the American girls got scared seeing a man's face peeking at them like that, so one of them caught hold of a cord just above the window and pulled it down.

mebbe it's because that Injun knows me and ain't scared of me.

Anyhow, I'm scared of him.

I was tired out and rather scared.

" She lifted scared eyes to his stern face.

Him falling scared the hog a second time and got him to running right.

They were scared to take me.

I remember how scared us chillun was when we crossed the Red River.

By the time we got to sleep we heard sounds like someone was emptying shelled corn, and I hunched up under my husband scared to death and then moved out the next day.

I specks they'd a killed me if they come up to me cause they'd a scared me to death.

Their scared temper was such as to make it impossible to lay hold of them by other means than by driving the whole herd into a clump, and lassoing the leg of the animal it was desired to seize, and throwing him to the ground with dexterous force.

Jack, who was always scared at the Gazette, And had some bits of scull uninjured yet, Promised amendment, vow'd his wife spake reason, 'He would not see another play that season' Three stubborn fortnights Jack his promise kept, Was late and early in his shop, eat, slept, And walk'd and talk'd, like ordinary men; No wit, but John the hatter once again Visits his club:

Hooted and scared like the unowned dog, the Hebrew made himself envied for his wealth and wisdom, and was bled of them to fill the bath of Gentile luxury; he absorbed knowledge, he diffused it; his dispersed race was a new Phoenicia working the mines of Greece and carrying their products to the world.

They had a scared look, like pretty beasts caught in a trap.

One would not be scared by one of these death-ships on such a day as this, nor believe, until the crash came, that it would drop down destruction upon this dream city, all aglitter in gold and white, with all its towers and spires clean-cut against the sky.

He broke a chain letter and he's scared of every sound; drawing.

Galloping along the road after leaving the marshes, I scared an ox who was feeding leisurely, and to my great dismay saw the foolish beast betake himself with lumbering speed into the 'bush:' the slaves will have to hunt after him, and perhaps will discover more rattlesnakes six or twelve feet long.

I wonder if the fire has killed and scared away many of these beautiful creatures.

With some such thoughts I commended the slaves on the plantation to the little overseer's wife; I did not tell my thoughts to her, they would have scared the poor little woman half out of her senses.

scarred 343 occurrences

So formed they their battle-scarred array what time Beltane viewed them with glowing eye and heart swelling within him.

His heavy hands, bruised and scarred, were working restlessly at his sides.

Both men were weather-beaten, scarred, and tattered.

She promptly divested it of all its splendid garments, as a precaution against further vandalism, and the naked thing with its scarred face was ever an honored guest at our functions.

We had listened, that afternoon, too coolly, perhaps, to a tale of many outrages, but the horror and infamy of them were not brought home to us till we saw Mary, tattered scarred, bedraggled, lying crumpled up against the gay chintz of the arm-chair.

" CHAPTER XXIV DIPLOMACY Worried Mrs. Dale raised a work-scarred hand and pushed back a lock of gray hair that had fallen over one eye.

I was like a man coming back from the dead, safe against recognition, and with all the record of my past life scarred and burnt into my memory.

Cheerful usually, even gay, brave, and ready with lines of smile; but in repose so marked, so scarred with unutterable weariness and disappointment, that tears spring in the eyes and love in the hearts of all finely organized persons who meet them.

While serving Axcester for ball, rout, and general assembly-room, it had been admittedly dismalits slate-coloured walls scarred and patched with new plaster, and relieved only by a gigantic painting of the Royal Arms on panel in a blackened frame; its ceiling garnished with four pendants in plaster, like bride- cake ornaments inverted.

Sene, do you see?" Sene's scarred mouth moved slightly, but she made no reply.

The hand which had scarred her face had rounded and bent them,her own mother's hand.

* Nine plagues had wasted Egypt with their tortures grim and slow; The earth was desolated, and scarred by hail and fire; Still even yet her Lord refused to let his bondsmen go To worship in the wilderness, the God of their desire.

As a burning tear stole down his scarred cheek, he turned aside to conceal what might seem weakness.

Ahead the forest was scarred by a yellow wound.

The remainder were a very long time in recovering, and when they did, their backs, in many cases, were scarred in such a manner as to render them unfit ever after for being used for a similar purpose.

Alexander is set at fourteen to throw earth out of a ditch so deep, that it requires the full strength of a grown man, and loses flesh and health under the exertion; he is twice blown up with his own blast in quarrying, and left for dead, recovers slowly, maimed and scarred, with the loss of an eye.

A large proportion of the blacks have their shoulders, backs, and arms all scarred up, and not a few of them have had their heads laid open with clubs, stones, and brick-bats, and with the butt-end of whips and canessome have had their jaws broken, others their teeth knocked in or out; while others have had their ears cropped and the sides of their cheeks gashed out.

"Ranaway a negro man named Henry, his left eye out, some scars from a dirk on and under his left arm, and much scarred with the whip.

These seemed to run criss-cross and to weaken the structure, so that the various séracs formed by them had bent to different angles and shapes, giving a very irregular surface to the berg, and a face scarred with immense vertical fissures.

The man with the scarred face leant over the table and looked at my bundle.

The gaunt man with the scarred lip was the first to speak.

The gaunt man with the scarred lip stared impassively.

The gaunt man passed the back of his hand across the scarred lip.

The little man, by way of comparison, reflected on the gaunt rider with the scarred lip, as stalwart as his master, as brave and, indeed, perhaps braver, and yet for him there was obedience, nothing but to give obedience duly and stoutly... Certain sensations of the hands and knees called the little man back to more immediate things.

An oval blaze scarred it and on the wood was painted a red wolf.

Do we say   scared   or  scarred