32 Verbs to Use for the Word bruises

It's enough when a fellow takes me out that he can tuck me up in a six-cylinder and make me forget my stone-bruise.

Sea and stones had been merciful with him, and he showed neither bruise nor wound, but his face wore a look of great peace, and his eyes and mouth were shut.

You yourself saw the bruises.

They frequently inflict severe bruises or cuts upon their bodies, thinking thus to propitiate their gods.

Who me, unfriended, brought'st by wondrous ways, The kingdom of my fathers to possess: 263 Be thou my judge, with what unwearied care I since have labour'd for my people's good; To bind the bruises of a civil war, And stop the issues of their wasting blood.

This is a place of amusement, and all connected with the show are expected to heal up sores, instead of causing bruises, and if you ever see an employee of this show treating a visitor unkindly, send him to the ticket wagon to get his wages, and tell him to go away quick, and stay away long.

"You've got quite a bruise, and I suppose it pains.

Dan patted her shoulder dumbly and touched a fresh, livid bruise that ran from the curling hair on her temple down across cheek and chin.

If there had been any roads to speak of in those days, Jeanne Dubois would have driven from one end to the other of the land in her fine coach, so proud was she of its splendor; but even pride could not heal the bruises she got in jolting about in it, nor the terror she felt of being overturned.

There lay the guard, unconscious, an ugly bruise on the side of his head.

Finding him not much the worse for wear, barring some bruises and a missing inch or two of skin, he ordered the bag pulled over his head again and gave the order for retreat.

It was not till Ken was bending over the lamp, preparatory to blowing it out, that Phil noticed the bruise above his eye.

" "That's small comfort for us," I said, nursing my bruises.

Again, when Lady Audley was at the piano he observed a bruise on her arm.

If he's started a bit of untellable news, On the calf of his leg there is planted a bruise.

Besides, there is Article 27 of the same code: 'The slave who, having struck his master, shall have produced a bruise, shall suffer capital punishment'a very necessary law!"

His young brother, jarred by a guilty conscience and fear of Philip, came hastily down the ladder, raising a few bruises on his anatomy as he came.

Exhibit: the scratches upon my erstwhile beautiful countenance; reserved: the bruises upon my unhappy knees and elbows.

He read and again stood before the Senate, which had regained its usual composure after the fallen sergeant-at-arms had regained his feet and rubbed his bruises.

This condition is almost invariably set up by an injuryeither a bruise or an actual woundto the coronet.

Other villagers suffered mere bruises, but all who engaged in the fight posed as heroes and even Peggy McNutt, who figured as "not present," told marvelous tales of how he had worsted seven mill hands in a stand-up fight, using only his invincible fists.

We used to keep a pile of arnica and stuff like that around to rub them up with and tame down the bruises after Jo laid 'em cold on the ground.

Gerarde, describing it, tells us how, "the root of Solomon's seal stamped, while it is fresh and greene, and applied, taketh away in one night, or two at the most, any bruise, black or blue spots, gotten by falls, or women's wilfulness in stumbling upon their hasty husbands' fists."

He didn't even mind the bruise on his knee, where it had hit on the ice.

"Patience hath borne the bruise, and I the stroke.

32 Verbs to Use for the Word  bruises