"Cicatrice" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Nicholl Thom, of St. Columb, Cornwall, alias Sir William Percy Honeywood Courtenay, Knight of Malta, and King of Jerusalem; who also claimed to be Jesus Christ, in proof of which he shewed punctures in his hands, and a cicatrice on his side. ...
— Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign • John Ashton
... scars to this day. Then there was that case in Denver. Ever hear about that? A young girl, nervous patient. Nails driven through the palms of her hands,—tenpenny nails,—under the hypnotic suggestion that she wasn't being hurt. Didn't leave a cicatrice as big as ...
— The Faith Healer - A Play in Three Acts • William Vaughn Moody
... [The cicatrice and capable impressure] Cicatrice is here not very properly used; it is the scar of a wound. Capable impressure ...
— Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies • Samuel Johnson
... themselves great scars in honour of their mistresses, and to the end they may the longer remain, they presently clap fire to the wound, where they hold it an incredible time to stop the blood and form the cicatrice; people that have been eyewitnesses of it have both written and sworn it to me. But for ten aspers—[A Turkish coin worth about a penny]—there are there every day fellows to be found that will give themselves a good deep slash in the arms or thighs. I am willing, however, to have ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne
... tamed him that we were able to examine him for a further verification of my suspicions. 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. By our pursuing the system I have described for some time, Bruin became so tame that he would follow us about like a dog, while he exhibited his affection ...
— Marmaduke Merry - A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days • William H. G. Kingston |
