For instance, take the common birthmark of a patch of reddened skin on the face, brow, or neck.
Do you know, reader, that that birthmark was present fully four months before she passed through that experience in the berry patch?
Aylmer looked cheerfully into her face, with intent to reassure her, but was so startled with the intense glow of the birthmark upon the whiteness of her cheek that he could not restrain a strong convulsive shudder.
And, Aylmer, spare me not, though you should find the birthmarktake refuge in my heart at last.
Masculine observers, if the birthmark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness without the semblance of a flaw.
Save on your account, my dearest Aylmer," observed his wife, "I might wish to put off this birthmark of mortality by relinquishing mortality itself in preference to any other mode.
Would you throw the blight of that fatal birthmark over my labors?
Still, whenever she dared to look into the mirror, there she beheld herself pale as a white rose and with the crimson birthmark stamped upon her cheek.
They talked together rapidly, and one of them pointed to the moon-shaped birthmark which you see I have upon my neck, for it was hot weather, and I was wearing a low-cut frock.
How do you stand toward this bird with the birthmark and the red hair?
But if any one ever saw him stripped they'd remember him by a big blotchy birthmark on his left shoulder.
She sat bolt upright, rigid; her birthmark showed a fiery red.
Do you know a Chinaman, belonging to the labor battalion, who wears a hideous birthmark on his left cheek?
By the way, do you know a Chinaman who carries a red birthmark on the left side of his face?
Somewhere in this ridiculous mess," interrupted Rara, her birthmarkdeepening in color, "I have misplaced a niece who was as close to me as any daughter or son ever was to any mother or father.
At the edge of the Devil's Pot, the woman with the birthmark on the left side of her face was tapping a cane and holding out a tin cup.
Son of an electric eel," she said when Tel reached her, her birthmark scarlet.
As they filed past the officers and onto the dock, a woman with a box of trinkets and a brown-red birthmark splashed over the left side of her face pushed among the new arrivals.
Since de Spain was not looking at him, McAlpin cocked two keen and curious eyes on the sphinx-like birthmark of the very amiable speaker's face.
His shirt stained and tattered for bandages, his hair matted in blood on his forehead, his eyes inflamed and sunken, his lips crusted and swollen, the birthmark fastened vividly on his cheek made him a desperate sight.
If the birthmark could have deepened with humiliation it would have done so at the instant of the cold inspection of the girl's pretty eyes.
This man had a curious deep red birthmark covering the entire side of his face.
And the man standing before the altar, one half of his face in the shadow, one half discolored by the crimson birthmark dimly in the light, received the money.
Often this eccentricity bore all the marks of strength; perhaps it was actual exuberance of force, a birthmark of genius.
In baring Theodora's left arm his eyes had fallen upon the well-remembered birthmark resembling the raven claw.
Immediately a woman with bright brown squinting eyes and a birthmark on her cheek, rushed forward and seized the policeman by the sleeve.
There were the two captains, Birthmark Sweetlocks, Ned Galloway, and Israel Martin, the old buccaneersman.
There was Birthmark Sweetlocks, who was known to have been present at the killing of the log-wood cutters, so that his hideous scarlet disfigurement was put down by the fanciful as being a red afterglow from that great crime.
Copley Banks was chosen Captain, but, as there are no mates upon a pirate craft, Birthmark Sweetlocks became quartermaster, and Israel Martin the boatswain.
She remained not less pale than ever; but the birthmark with every breath that came and went, lost somewhat of its former distinctness.
Now, if that man presently moved and exhibited a birthmarkon his right hand, the value of that squint and that mark would increase at once a hundred or a thousand fold.
There was Birthmark Sweetlocks, who was known to have been present at the killing of the logwood-cutters, so that his hideous scarlet disfigurement was put down by the fanciful as being a red afterglow from that great crime.
There were the two captains, Birthmark Sweetlocks, Ned Galloway, and Israel Martin, the old buccaneers-man.
Copley Banks was chosen captain, but, as there are no mates upon a pirate craft, Birthmark Sweetlocks became quartermaster, and Israel Martin the boatswain.
To the major and his wife the birthmark of the spur was convincing proof; and, if more were needed, the thorough coaching of Snark was sufficient.
But, see here, kid, you'll admit it would be impossible for two people to have that birthmark on them; the identical mark in the identical spot.
Dark featured, hook-nosed, with a blue birthmark covering half his chin, he inspired her with an almost uncontrollable fear.
Did he have a birthmark on his chin, this man you bought the book from?
It was the face of the man she had seen in the shop, he of the birthmarkon his chin.
As she turned with a gasp, she caught sight of a face that vanished instantly, the face of the man with the birthmarkon his chin.
Through the loosely joined but powerful league of book sellers he tracked down the man with the birthmark on his chin and forced him to admit the theft of the case of valuable books.
As he looked down on the hand that held his own the old king trembled more violently than before, for above the wrist was a birthmark like the birthmark above the wrist of the babe he had cast forth to die.
But the birthmark on its wrist was branded on my brain so that I could not forget it.
He was heavily built, with an undershot jaw and a patch of liverish birthmark on his cheek.
She gloried in the impact that felled the great brute with the liver patch on his cheek, which was like a birthmark of war.
Look at the dead man on the gallows, and thou wilt find the birthmark there.
Tis true," screamed the woman; "was not there a birthmarkupon thy child's shoulder?
Only the golden cord was left in its place: some searching eye might detect a trace of that birthmark which it was whispered she had always worn a necklace to conceal.
The characters are, as usual, few, and they have that special trait of isolation which is the birthmark of Hawthorne's creations.
