cicatrice

• Possibly a blot on the 'scutcheon may, in the working of God's providence, not always be a dire misfortune, for it sometimes has the effect of binding broken hearts as nothing else can, as a cicatrice toughens the fiber. —  Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3
• Had my companions before entertained any doubts as to the truth of my story, all such vanished when they discovered that, though the wound had perfectly closed where I had cut out the steak, the cicatrice was there, and skin perfectly denuded of hair. —  Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days
• He turned over the neck of his patient's shirt and showed the cicatrice, angry and ugly. —  Doom Castle
• Two or three miles away on our right the ground rose gently to a range of low wooded hills, and on their bare green slopes brown furrows showed up like a cicatrice. —  Leaves from a Field Note-Book
• Possibly a blot on the 'scutcheon may, in the working of God's providence, not always be a dire misfortune, for it sometimes has the effect of binding broken hearts as nothing else can, as a cicatrice toughens the fiber Deborah had not much education, but she had good, sturdy commonsense, which is better if you are forced to make choice. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen

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