cicatrice

Example Sentences

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For it was the body of his friend, John St. Helen, beyond peradventure?a hooplike scar over the eye, a neck cicatrice, an old leg fracture, a crooked thumb.

From Time Magazine Archive

He stared with an almost comical seriousness at his bald forehead, and pointed to a three-cornered cicatrice, long healed, but still discernible.

From The Wisdom of Father Brown by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

The fall of pitiful tears, tears from the sweet blue of her guileless eyes, came hissing against the red-hot cicatrice.

From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis

His features were hard, and on one cheek he had a cicatrice, the remains of some misfortune that had happened to him in his boyhood.

From An Eye for an Eye by Trollope, Anthony

He turned over the neck of his patient's shirt and showed the cicatrice, angry and ugly.

From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil