Mechanically she traced the scars of fire, the lump of discoloured flesh that marked where his right ear had been shorn level with the cheek; and she told herself that Wayne of Marsh was answerable for both.
Shrinking a little when the bandage was loosened, she glanced at the wound and noted its discoloured look.
And so that weary night limped tediously away, and morning dawned, and tipped the discoloured foliage of the glen with its glow, awaking the songs of all the birds, and dispersing the white mists of darkness.
When the operation was completed, there remained no doubt whatever on my mind: discoloured and disfigured as were both clothes and body, I was sure that the dead man was no other than Mark Wylder.
Jack threw himself on the sand, and surveyed the rough, discoloured heap with unqualified disgust.
A little way within the shop-door lay heaps of old crackled parchment scrolls and discoloured and dog's-eared law-papers.
Mr. Snagsby, who, between the earnestness of his feelings and the suppressed tones of his voice is discoloured in the face.
No curtain veils the darkness of the night, but the discoloured shutters are drawn together, and through the two gaunt holes pierced in them, famine might be staring in--the banshee of the man upon the bed.
Little by little he very slowly took from a breast-pocket a stained, discoloured paper which was much singed upon the outside and a little burnt at the edges, as if it had long ago been thrown upon a fire and hastily snatched off again.
We had observed before that when she looked at it she covered her discoloured eye with her hand, as though she wished to separate any association with noise and violence and ill treatment from the poor little child.
They find the old room very dull and dismal, with the ashes of the fire that was burning on that memorable night yet in the discoloured grate.
Another was described as “well finished, and on the top the surface was burnt for about a quarter of an inch inwards, black outside and discoloured below.
His face was discoloured and rather bloated, his nose swollen.
The low red house, with its roof discoloured and sunken, dozed in sunlight, and slept profoundly in the shade thrown by the massive maples encroaching from the wood.
We undressed him, and found his beautiful white body all discoloured with bruises.
Sometimes large patches of skin are scorched or stained, the discoloured area showing an arborescent appearance.
The eye waters and is hypersensitive, the iris is discoloured and reacts sluggishly to light, and there is a zone of ciliary congestion around the cornea.
The disease begins on the foot as an indurated patch, which becomes discoloured and permeated by black or yellow nodules containing the organism.
Either immediately, or, it may be, not for several days, it becomes discoloured and swollen, and finally contracts and shrivels.
He ceased to be himself in manner completely, and even in disposition, in so far that his faded neutral eyes matching his discoloured hair so well, were discovered then to be capable of expressing a sort of underhand hate.
His hair, discoloured and silky, curled slightly over his ears.
Upon one of her bare ankles was a discoloured mark.
Death was due to drowning, but his throat was greatly discoloured as though it had been clutched in a fierce grip.
In ferocious madness it is usually torn and bruised, or it is discoloured by the dirt and filth with which it has been brought into contact, and, not unfrequently, its anterior portion is coated with some disgusting matter.
A great number of birds were observed to have small wounds on the body which had bled and discoloured their feathers.
So we moved on, having secured enough fresh-water ice to supply a pleasant change after the somewhat discoloured tank-water then being served out.
The effect of this work has often been destroyed, as time has frayed and discoloured the parts that are raised, exhibiting the canvas ground, reversing the high lights, and causing dark spots in their stead.
In the British Museum is a fragment of Egyptian woollen or worsted embroidery on white linen, discoloured by its use as mummy wrapping; but the stitches of worsted remain a perfectly clear bright crimson and indigo blue.
As for this," added Hunston, pointing to his discoloured eye and cheek, "I think nothing of it.
Well, it had once been white, but now it had got very considerably discoloured with age and dust, which seemed to indicate that it had been a long while up on the shelf in its hiding place.
The weather was hot, and after four days some of the cubes were discoloured and mouldy, with their angles a little rounded; but they were not surrounded by a zone of transparent fluid as in the case of those undergoing digestion.
Placed in water, next day leaves quite discoloured and evidently killed.
Some solutions, for instance that of carbonate of ammonia, quickly discolour the glands; and as all on the same leaf were discoloured simultaneously, they must all have absorbed some of the salt within the same short period of time.
There were frightful old hags amongst them draped in discoloured garments that almost fell from their withered limbs, held only together by broad scarlet girdles that were wound innumerable times around their waists.
The child was frail and delicate: its feet were bare, the wretched dress it wore hung in discoloured rags round its thin body.
They were black and frayed with previous wear, their original hue of yellow being discolouredby smears and hard usage.
His clothes were torn and worn and discoloured by the salt water.
His lips are often discoloured and disfigured with the marks of teeth; for he has desperate fits, and sometimes even bites his hands and covers them with wounds--why did you start?
But the narration of scenes whichdiscoloured the Irish rebellion makes one blush to think that the wolfish wretches who were the actors therein bore the common name of man.
The latter state is even of greater importance than the first, as no matter how good the work originally, if discoloured and frayed, prices go down and down.
The ground was always of white satin, now faded anddiscoloured with age, and often torn with the heaviness of the beadwork design.
One day when she was growing up her mother told her at dinner that she had been on the pier that morning and had seen the body of a man, all discoloured and swollen from being in the water a long time, towed into the harbour by a fishing boat.
Sometimes a bee is so discolouredwith this powder as to look like a different insect, becoming white, yellow, or orange, according to the flowers in which it has been busy.
His annuals werediscoloured by them, and the stalks of a bed of onions quite coated over for six days after.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "discoloured" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
