"There's no doubt about it," said the hardware drummer with the pock-pitted cheeks. ❋ Various (N/A)
The doctor, a lank, pock-pitted embodiment of mad chirurgy from books and antique herbal delusions inherited from generations of simple healers, mixed noxious stuff in a gallipot and plumed himself upon some ounces of gore drawn from his victim. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
He was a pock-pitted, damp-looking, soiled little fungus of a man, who had attained to his office because, in the dirtiest precinct of the wickedest ward in the city, he had, through the operation of a befitting ingenuity, forced a recognition of his leadership. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)
"Not the Indians we're after," said I, noting the signs of permanency; but Paul Larocque shoved me forward with the end of his pole and a curious, almost intelligent, expression came on the dull, pock-pitted face. ❋ Unknown (1903)
The small gray eyes in the pock-pitted face stole toward young ❋ Unknown (1899)
His face was pock-pitted, and had not on it even signs of a beard. ❋ 1859-1916 Sholem Aleichem (1887)
The next instant the gate was cast ajar very hastily, and the pock-pitted negress appeared. ❋ Howard Pyle (1882)
Her face was pock-pitted to an incredible degree, so that what with this deformity, emphasized by the pouting of her prodigious and shapeless lips, and the rolling of a pair of eyes as yellow as saffron, Jonathan Rugg thought that he had never beheld a figure at once so extraordinary and so repulsive. ❋ Howard Pyle (1882)
So universal was the branding produced by this scourge that scarcely an advertisement containing any personal description appears in any colonial print, without containing the words, pock-fretten, pock-marked, pock-pitted, or pock-broken. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)
It is beardless, pock-pitted, with thick shapeless lips, broad hanging jowls, nostrils agape, and nose flattened like the snout of a bull-dog. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
"I'm willing to go," said a fellow, ironically called Handsome Hacket, because he was blind of an eye and deeply pock-pitted -- "there's no use in quarrellin 'with a woman certainly -- and I don't think there can be any doubt about the man's death; devil a bit." ❋ William Carleton (1831)
In figure he was well built, slender, and of fair height: his face was pock-pitted and homely, his little blue eyes cheerful and penetrating. ❋ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1790)
-- whips cracking, carriages thumping and rumbling, guns powder-blackened and brown, their wheels, trails, and limbers chipped and bitten, and their own bronze pock-pitted by the flying iron and lead of other fights, and the heroes in saddle and on chests -- with faces as war-worn as the wood and metal and brute life under them -- cheering as they passed. ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)
He is a tall, pock-pitted lad, very black hair, and wore a blue coat and metal buttons, an old red vest, and breeches of the same colour. " ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)
