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abrasion
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  • "It just won't budge," Mrs. Weasley was saying anxiously, standing over Hermione with her wand in her hand and a copy of The Healer's Helpmate open at "Bruises, Cuts, and Abrasions."†   (source)
  • It was a strange accident, from which Harold escaped with only abrasions: he had been taking some tiling pipe out of his truck to set it beside a ditch.†   (source)
  • He gingerly felt the abrasions and winced.†   (source)
  • Abrasions on my legs, which will require skin grafts; and on my face, which will require cosmetic surgery—but, as the doctors note, that is only if I am lucky.†   (source)
  • Someone had even cleaned and wrapped the mild abrasions on my hands and the knife wound from three days ago when Ambrose's thugs had tried to kill me.†   (source)
  • You fall off a motorcycle at forty miles an hour and hit your head on gravel, the gravel will leave behind patterned abrasions that don't look like anything else.†   (source)
  • While he examined her he explained about abrasions and contusions and the healing process.†   (source)
  • I checked the groom's hands and arms for abrasions.†   (source)
  • Back in his office, he wept; and when he finished weeping he washed the blood from his mouth and nose, scrubbed the dirt from the abrasions on his cheek and forehead, and summoned Sergeant Towser.†   (source)
  • You had three broken ribs, a cracked tibia, countless abrasions, and a horrific amount of blood loss, Otis.†   (source)
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  • But now all balance is lost and we plunge down headlong, both of us, noisily and without grace, gathering momentum and abrasions as we go.†   (source)
  • Lacerations and abrasions on other parts of the body were concordant with a struggle.†   (source)
  • He had a single bullet wound on the left side of his chest, between the base of the neck and the shoulder, and several cuts and abrasions to his face.†   (source)
  • apply oil to minimize mechanical abrasion
  • To treat a mild abrasion, start by cleaning it with soap and water and applying an antibiotic ointment.
  • Mild abrasions, such as a scraped knee, can be treated at home.
  • Eve noted there was no sign of bruising, no tears or abrasions on the knuckles.†   (source)
  • The bruises and small abrasions on her arms and neck.†   (source)
  • "Lots of abrasions," she said.†   (source)
  • The labia was normal, what you would assume postintercourse, and there were no internal abrasions like with the first bride.†   (source)
  • Certainly wide enough …. but there are abrasions along the vaginal walls consistent with some kind of ring.†   (source)
  • Mixed in with the abrasions and lacerations which most people in the hospital had suffered, he began to find dreadful burns.†   (source)
  • By the light of a lantern, he had examined himself and found: left clavicle fractured; multiple abrasions and lacerations of face and body, including deep cuts on the chin, back, and legs; extensive contusions on chest and trunk: a couple of ribs possibly fractured.†   (source)
  • For Mason had called his attention to them and insisted that no blow from a boat would make both abrasions.†   (source)
  • The old devotee moved the boy nearer to the fire and made him comfortable; doctored his small bruises and abrasions with a deft and tender hand; and then set about preparing and cooking a supper —chatting pleasantly all the time, and occasionally stroking the lad's cheek or patting his head, in such a gently caressing way that in a little while all the fear and repulsion inspired by the archangel were changed to reverence and affection for the man.†   (source)
  • Several marks and abrasions found upon the dead girl's head and face, as well as the testimony of three men who arrived on the scene while the search was still on and testified to having met a young man who answered to the description of Golden or Graham in the woods to the south of the lake the night before, caused many to conclude that a murder had been committed and that the murderer was seeking to make his escape.†   (source)
  • The cranium had been smashed open by some blunt instrument, leaving the naked brains exposed, and the cerebral matter had suffered deep abrasions.†   (source)
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  • The initials PP were embossed along its top, the curves and arches of the letters abraded over time into a pale felt.†   (source)
  • In the same instant, the shackle on my right ankle clicked open and fell off, revealing a band of abraded red skin.†   (source)
  • His hands were abraded and exhausted, but he listened to his heart.†   (source)
  • He was mounted on a traditional Haitian saddle, made of straw, designed, it would seem, to abrade the backs of donkeys and ponies until they bled.†   (source)
  • …has to be done) the poor little girl lying half in the closet and half out of it, seeing black stars dancing in front of everything, a sweet, faraway buzzing, swollen tongue lolling between her lips, throat circled with a bracelet of puffed, abraded flesh where Momma had throttled her and then Momma coming back, coming for her, Momma holding Daddy Ralph's long butcher knife (cut it out i have to cut out the evil the nastiness sins of the flesh o i know about that the eyes cut out your…†   (source)
  • An involuntary groan escaped him as his fingers popped back into their sockets, and as his abraded tendons and crushed cartilage regained the fullness of their proper shapes, and as the flaps of skin hanging from his knuckles again covered the raw flesh below.†   (source)
  • Stoddard, dazed, bruised, abraded, was back in the tonneau struggling up with Uncle Pros's assistance.†   (source)
  • Their laughter, shouts, and squeals of delight abraded his nerves and sparked in him an irrational anger.†   (source)
  • And then Liv, too, must be misremembering the scene, for she's been equally grateful and then nervous, no doubt abraded by this rough brush with mortality.†   (source)
  • He had a moment to register the feel of her skin under his hands, …abrading against the urgent need to mate.†   (source)
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  • She could not believe that she was now kneeling on the hurtful, abrading concrete, drawing her children toward her so smotheringly tight that she felt that their flesh might be engrafted to hers even through layers of clothes.†   (source)
  • In a blink, she gulped down the rabbits and then licked clean the stone with the organs, abrading the slate with the barbs on her tongue.†   (source)
  • They were in throwing range as he finished reloading, and a stick struck him on the forehead and brought blood in abraded drops.†   (source)
  • But a life on horseback, in hot sun and dry wind and the nip of winter, had already begun to abrade the smooth, hard planes of youth and bless him with a pleasantly worn and appealing face that spoke of deep experience and rural wisdom.†   (source)
  • Maybe the tape's old and abraded.†   (source)
  • The clean cuffed hand holds up an abraded stick.†   (source)
  • Here, in this room, are the abraded and battered shells cast on the shore.†   (source)
  • My heart turns rough; it abrades my side like a file with two edges: one, that I adore his magnificence; the other I despise his slovenly accents—I who am so much his superior—and am jealous.†   (source)
  • I am not sinuous or suave; I sit among you abrading your softness with my hardness, quenching the silver-grey flickering moth-wing quiver of words with the green spurt of my clear eyes.†   (source)
  • Mounting higher, darkness blew along the bare upland slopes, and met the fretted and abraded pinnacles of the mountain where the snow lodges for ever on the hard rock even when the valleys are full of running streams and yellow vine leaves, and girls, sitting on verandahs, look up at the snow, shading their faces with their fans.†   (source)
  • The familiar sensation of an abraded shin recalled his dazed faculties.†   (source)
  • Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls.†   (source)
  • Whether from terror or courage, Cosette had not breathed a sound, though her hands were a little abraded.†   (source)
  • The rain had been heavier here, and all foot and horse tracks made previous to the storm had been abraded and blurred by the drops, and they were now so many little scoops of water, which reflected the flame of the match like eyes.†   (source)
  • Standing before this abraded pile, the eye regarded its present usage, the mind dwelt upon its past history, with a satisfied sense of functional continuity throughout—a feeling almost of gratitude, and quite of pride, at the permanence of the idea which had heaped it up.†   (source)
  • Stale smoky air hung in the study with the smell of drab abraded leather of its chairs.†   (source)
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  • Grant himself was all right except for a claw abrasion down his right chest, where the tyrannosaur had kicked him.†   (source)
  • Fat Argyll-vest man; cankered old lady; a milky duckling of a little girl, red abrasion at her temple but otherwise hardly a mark on her.†   (source)
  • A garish red abrasion colored his forehead.†   (source)
  • Paul remembered how the smell of burned sulfur from abrasion of 'thopter skids against sand had drifted across them.†   (source)
  • Here," she pointed to a reddened abrasion on her neck.†   (source)
  • Sudden thunder rumbles in the distance; the sky pulses red like an angry abrasion.†   (source)
  • When I tried to examine the abrasion more closely she shook me off, her hands raised diffidently in that long-familiar gesture of hers, as if my closeness were an unbearable weight.†   (source)
  • The sudden arrest of his motion, the abrasion of one of his hands on the gravel, restored him, and he wept with delight.†   (source)
  • For while the joint report of the five doctors showed: "An injury to the mouth and nose; the tip of the nose appears to have been slightly flattened, the lips swollen, one front tooth slightly loosened, and an abrasion of the mucous membrane within the lips"—all agreed that these injuries were by no means fatal.†   (source)
  • It is not so much the physical and mental exhaustion and abrasion that come with the challenges of life (for these, in fact, simple rest would be the best medicine); the cause is, rather, something psychological, our very sense of time itself—which, if it flows with uninterrupted regularity, threatens to elude us and which is so closely related to and bound up with our sense of life that the one sense cannot be weakened without the second's experiencing pain and injury.†   (source)
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  • While both men had the compact grace of athletes, Frank's was the build of a tennis player, Jamie's the body of a warrior, shaped—and battered—by the abrasion of sheer physical adversity.†   (source)
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