Read full poem →What a pretty, red line!
Tell the taverns that scar
Was an honour. Don't whine
Dictionary Entry
A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
Origin
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Common Phrases
tissue scar. scarformation scarscar white
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Poetry examples for “scar”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Deform'd with many a boss
And closed scar, o'ercushion'd deep with moss;
Bunch'd all about with pagan mistletoe;
Read full poem →To find that it was wrinkled, strange to say
A scar upon the forehead, like a cross....
Elenor Murray rose and walked away,
Read full poem →Battered by the past.
Time will have his little scar,
But the wound won't last.
Read full poem →Men I had slandered on life's little star
For churls and sluggards; and I knew the scar
Upon their brows of woe ineffable.
Read full poem →Let us, the Children of the Night,
Put off the cloak that hides the scar!
Let us be Children of the Light,
Read full poem →XXV
'Drop his hand, you insult him. Avoid us for fear we should cost you a scar--
You take us for harlots, I tell you, and not for the women we are.
Read full poem →Heavenly hurt it gives us;
We can find no scar,
But internal difference
Read full poem →Blazing in heaven afar,
Red shone the angry scar
Under her frontlet.
Read full poem →With his rents, the successive bequeathings of ages untold--
Yea, each harm got in fighting your battles, each furrow and scar
Of his head thrust 'twixt you and the tempest--all hail, there they