"Battle-scarred" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... surprising how readily the drove falls into the spirit of this strolling march, some battle-scarred old bull leading, and the others following ...
— Dwellers in the Hills • Melville Davisson Post
... accompanied with songs the measured fall of their oars. Of the soldiers some were cleaning their arms; some were stretched out in the bow asleep; others were playing at huckle-bones. A short distance from Albinik, who was still at the helm, a white haired veteran with battle-scarred face was seated on one of the benches in the poop, between his two sons, fine young archers of eighteen or twenty years. They were conversing with their father, each with one arm familiarly laid on a shoulder of the old warrior, whom they thus held tight in their embrace; all three seemed ...
— The Brass Bell - or, The Chariot of Death • Eugene Sue |
