As the living carving touched its face, the ends of the twigs broke off like old scabs, leaving only perfect fingers.

He does not try very hard to scratch old scabs and tolerates a fair amount of hot air.

The ink ran into the blood, and the whole thing dried rusty brown-black, the color of an old scab.

There are places for so many different wounds before we find ourselves breaking an old scab.

It took a couple of weeks for the big old scab to fall off.

That led, inevitably, to trying not to remember old scabs Cer-nunnos had ripped the tops off.

Like a man picking at an old scab, Tom rummaged through the mail until he found that small square envelope once again.

Clues as to why this old scab is being picked again now are not hard to find.

Even the Clarion still mentions you now and then, when they're picking at old scabs.

Valentine's stomach went sour, but there was no need to pick at old scabs.