The countryside had become flatter since they had passed the raw black scars on the mining areas and the remaining tracts of Sherwood Forest.

The majestic old oak had been struck down, sundered from its living roots, its stump a raw scar in the muted earth shades of the woods.

Vegetation quickly covered the raw scars of freshly exposed rock and soil, giving them the illusion of permanence.

It was a raw lumpy scar where a landslide had recently occurred.

He saw her hands then, the awkward way she held them, the raw red scars, the stiffness of the last two fingers on her left.

He could smell freshly cut wood; and beneath the window shone a raw scar where a screwdriver, or a hand drill, perhaps, had pierced through.

The numerous ragged wounds from the shotgun blast ached, but they were already raw and tender scars rather than open entry wounds.

She gazed out onto the stinking pit, a raw scar of the bitter present she fervently wished to keep from her son.

Down one side of his face there were pink raw scars and scabs.