Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of birth-mark; a vascular nævus, of reddish color and soft consistency, like a strawberry.
Examples
“She informs him, that, beautiful as the young wife is, she has a strawberry-mark on her shoulder.”
“I will endeavour to show that, though heredity and habit based on memory go about in different dresses, yet if we catch them separately -- for they are never seen together -- and strip them there is not a mole nor strawberry-mark, nor trick nor leer of the one, but we find it in the other also.”
“Fate in all -- he had, not "a strawberry-mark on his left arm," but a cut from a juvenile brickbat over his right eye, slightly affecting the play of that eyebrow.”
If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact
“Antony said nothing, and Bill went on happily to himself, "I perceive from the strawberry-mark on your shirt-front that you had strawberries for dessert.”
“I bare it before your eyes, and here it is -- it is the strawberry-mark; come to my bosom, I am your long-lost brother. ”
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