It was for her that he sought strange secrets and tried to penetrate the mysteries of sensation, for he could only give her wonderful thoughts and a wonderful life, and a poor body stained with the scars of his worship.
A cold wind blew up from the river at sunset, and the scarson his body began to burn and tingle.
The scars on his body burnt and tingled, and he tottered as he raised his hat to the vicar's wife.
Fortunately, it is not so near that it cannot hide its scarsand appear beautiful -- except when curiosity impels us to look with the penetrating eyes of the astronomer.
For ten miles inland lay the scars that civilization had left upon the forest.
They were scars made by interlopers upon the face of a great sweet mother.
The tendency to form segments, crescents and circles, the color, the pigmentation and ulceration, the history, and not infrequently marks or scars of former eruptions.
Explain why you put up that story of a brutal husband, and showed me scars on your breast to prove it--then washed them off.
There are scars on my body, on my back and my legs.
The town itself was resuming some of its wonted activity and workmen were busy mending the scars of war in the tiles and brick of the houses of the city.
Then the corresponding bones of the Brontosaurus were studied, and the position and size of the corresponding muscles were worked out, so far as they could be recognized from the scars and processes preserved on the bone.
The well-finished joints, dense texture of the hollow bones and strongly marked muscle-scars indicate that they were active and powerful beasts of prey.
The two bulls were marked, like many of their kind, with long parallel scars about three inches apart, evidently the work of the killers.
Our clothes, though never presentable, as they bore the scars of nearly ten months of rough usage, had to be continually patched to keep them together at all.
They were but just rescued from heathenism, and we need not wonder if their spirits long bore the scars of their former bondage.
There were scars on his forearms, the seam of one up his jaw.
Jazia's fingers flickered out, smoothed across his old scars lightly as she gazed into his eyes.
Ross's right hand rubbed across the ridged scars which disfigured his left one, to be carried for the rest of his life as a mark of his meeting with the star voyagers in the past of his own world.
The Barabarah of Upper Egypt adorn their faces with scars exactly like the Meccans.
Immediately men remembered the exotic growth of flowers which came up to hide some of London's scars after the blitz and the lush plantlife observed in Hiroshima.
His glorious land bore scarsinflicted by the barbarians.
All the scars inflicted on it, the indignities of scythe and mower, were covered by a new and even more prodigious stand which made all its former growth appear puny.
At the angle of the mouth the condylomatous patches may spread to the cheek, and when they ulcerate may leave fissure-like scars radiating from the mouth--an appearance best seen in inherited syphilis (Fig.
The best-known examples are the blue coloration which results from coal-dust or gunpowder, the brown scars resulting from chronic ulcer with venous congestion of the leg, and the variously coloured scars caused by tattooing.
The resulting scars are irregular, deep and puckered, and show a great tendency to contract.
Depressed scars may be raised by the injection of paraffin into the subcutaneous tissue.
It is by no means infrequent, however, that when recurrence takes place after an operation for the removal of cancer, the recurrent nodules make their appearance in the main scar or in the scars of stitches in its neighbourhood.
The hair is not re-formed in the scars which result from ulcerated lesions of the scalp.
Scars occasionally broaden out and become prominent, and on exposed parts this may prove a source of disappointment after operations such as those for goitre or tuberculous glands in the neck.
Scars of this nature are frequently discovered at the apex of the lung after death in persons who have at one time suffered from pulmonary phthisis.
Cicatrix horns are formed by the heaping up of epidermis in the scars that result from burns.
The co-existence of indolent swellings, ulcers, and depressed scars in the vicinity of the knee is characteristic of tertiary syphilis.
Epithelioma is liable to attack scars in old people, especially those which result from burns sustained early in childhood and have never really healed.
But she had the nerve that takes punishment without complaint, and the scars troubled her little.
The raccoon carried more scars from the victory over the weasels than she had to remind her of the scuffle with the dogs.
She appears to have learnt in the convent the art of producing scars on her body.
Masses of rock had been blasted from it; but that must have been years ago because a deep growth of moss and lichen covered the scars and the tough stems of crag-shrubs masked every crack.
We always expect doctors, lawyers, priests, and detectives to show the scars of the searing things they know.
He had spent an evening away from her and had reappeared with scars from a battle he would not describe.
But even if the tattooings which are made by mutilations or scars do not always have a totemic significance,[304] it is different with simple designs drawn upon the body: they are generally representations of the totem.
According to Howitt, a relationship of the same sort exists among the Dieri between certain arrangements of scars and the water totem.
It now belongs to Mrs. Merriam, and exhibits many scarsmade by the bullets on the morning of the skirmish.
Most of his Whig friends had fled in alarm, and he was carried to his father's house, "bearing upon his body the firstscars of the Revolutionary contest in the county of Tryon.
It bears several scars of wounds inflicted by the cannon-balls of the approaching enemy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
