Her hand rose to, but didn't touch, his face; the warm brown of his skin was a tapestry of half-healed cuts and bruises, the sharp line of his jaw was still blurred and swollen.

She scrubbed hard until she drew blood from half-healed cuts.

His back was cut to ribbons by the lash, and his skull was crisscrossed with scars and half-healed cuts where the clubs had fallen.

He saw the half-healed cut across Gil's cheek and smiled suddenly, lowering his voice to a whisper, "even if you're an idiot."

But she didn't believe me, not once she had my shirt off and saw all the half-healed cuts and old bruises.

He noted her work-worn hands, the tough, sinewy muscles, the scratches and scars and half-healed cuts.

His face was ghastly pale, and he had half-healed cuts on his face, a coat that was dusty and dirty, and a limp worse than a footsore tramp's with only scorched grass bound up around his bloody feet.

She made a soft mud with the sweetsand and scrubbed her entire body until she drew blood from various half-healed cuts.

"You should be really grateful to me for saving your worthless life, you know," the man continued, long fingers probing the half-healed cuts on Steve's back.

She fingered the half-healed cut on his cheek.