But the hermit prohibited the baron, by gesture, look, and word, to stir a yard on such an errand; and holding up his bare arm, from which the goatskin mantle fell back in the violence of his action, he waved it aloft, meagre with famine, and wealed with the blows of the discipline. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Conan brought his arms out in front of him, flexed them slowly while brushing away the cut ends of cord, and began massaging his red-wealed wrists. ❋ Carpenter, Leonard (1988)
The fur collar of the robe framed a three-inch band of sores and raw flesh around his neck above the too-prominent points of his collarbone; the big bones of his wrists, similarly wealed, stood out from the wasted flesh. ❋ Hambly, Barbara (1988)
One was a massive, close-cropped, typical Prussian, whose fleshy face was wealed with a great sabre cut from brow to chin; the second was a tall, supple, sinister gentleman with sleek black hair and a vulpine smile; the third was stocky and stout, balding and ugly. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1970)
The _chak_ ripped off shirtcloak, shirt, shoes, breeches, and I had my first triumph when the wealed clawmarks on my shoulders -- worse, if possible, than those which disfigured my face -- were laid bare. ❋ Marion Zimmer Bradley (1964)
The boy beside Drew dropped a wealed hand from his face. ❋ Andre Norton (1958)
Besides she knew I was kind to the others, and her delicate, wealed bum was a thing to pity, but full of delight for me. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Then he would be amused by hearing one of them saying, "Turn your back to the sahib, and let him see it still wealed with the whipping Nikalseyn gave you!" ❋ R. E. Cholmeley (N/A)
"And have you never seen," would ask some well-meaning tale-bearer, "any of those poor brutes, whose wealed and mangled coats, proclaimed how savagely they had been treated?" ❋ Various (N/A)
His eyes sought her throat where the lash of the hunting-crop had wealed it. ❋ Margaret Pedler (N/A)
For that creamy skin was wealed with the marks of the lash! ❋ Sax Rohmer (1921)
When Granma put me to bed she saw how bruised and wealed I was all over ... for the first time she went after ❋ Harry Kemp (1921)
Let the stone spread out to be broken not crumble fast enough beneath the arms already scarred, flayed, and wealed by the whip, again the scourge tears afresh the half-healed flesh! ❋ Unknown (1906)
With a strong effort he flung off these fancies and faced his sneering foe, who now -- his red-wealed face puckered into a malicious grin -- stood waiting. ❋ George Allan England (1906)
But the hermit prohibited the baron, by gesture, look, and word, to stir a yard on such an errand; and, holding up his bare arm, from which the goat-skin mantle fell back in the violence of his action, he waved it aloft, meagre with famine, and wealed with the blows of the discipline. ❋ Unknown (1894)
To his credit be it said the sight of the lad's wealed face gave the ❋ Stanley John Weyman (1891)
It was pitiful to see the glance of their terror-filled eyes and the answering quiver of their wealed frames whenever an arm was lifted or a sudden movement made. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
Indeed, he had; and was tossing his wealed body, full of pains, and aches, and bruises, as softly as he could upon the feather-bed: he had need of poultices all over, and a quart of Friar's Balsam would have done him little good: after his well-merited thrashing, the flogged hound had slunk to his kennel, and locked himself sullenly in, without even speaking to his mother. ❋ Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849)
