proud flesh
Example Sentences
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Tyrion touched his face, plucking at the proud flesh with blunt thick fingers.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Yellow water-lily roots are boiled until a black sediment forms—somewhat similar to iodine in appearance—and with a feather dipped in this liquid wounds are painted in order to consume proud flesh and to prevent mortification.
From The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure by Heming, Arthur Henry Howard
After he lost her, he went back to her; but the wound of her frailty cankered and took on proud flesh in him, and tortured him to nervous breakdown and to madness.
From The Man Shakespeare by Harris, Frank
"If it isn't," they said, "proud flesh will get into it, and that boy will be lame all winter."
From The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories by Patten, William
And if proud flesh appeared, the wound would still heal if it were opened and dressed with powder-post.
From The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories by Patten, William
