bruised

There was a fear growing inside of me that my imperfect bruised college experience was a reflection of my own damaged self.

Brooks came through the Old Bailey trial bruised but not defeated.

We are people who, despite ourselves, find ourselves drawn to the sick, the dying, the permanently bruised.

When he expresses concern over her bruised and disheveled appearance, she lies and tells him that she fainted.

So we both kept sending each other pictures of our bruised shins.

Wharton made the bruised Martini enter also; and accompanying them himself, the voiture set off, escorted by his servants.

Nancy was little the worse for the awful accident, bruised, of course, but poor Masters was unconscious.

The bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

He was lying, bruised and shaken, among the heaped-up débris of a ruined building.

It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.'