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Usage examples of seam.

I heard a short, sharp cry behind me, a fall, and turning saw an awful face rushing upon me,--not human, not animal, but hellish, brown, seamed with red branching scars, red drops starting out upon it, and the lidless eyes ablaze.

Because we live on the seam between formula and mystery, because I can recognize in the harmonic vicissitudes the hummable tune is put through some similar, metaphorical bend, music marks out the way all messages go.

Through the bars of the cage, Marchpane saw among the layers of schist a seam of glass catch at the lamplight, and then another.

I rolled over the thwart and into the bottom of the boat, Iying there with chattering teeth and quietly freeing the marlinspike from its resting place along the seam of my trouser leg, where I had tied it with spun yarn.

The fuselage was light plywood, a monocoque hull factory-made in two pieces and then fastened together along a central seam, much stronger than the old fabric models and extremely simple to make, which was crucial these days.

The front-seat passenger, a rugged mountainy man with forty years of living ground into the seams of his face, was crying.

The seams had been overstitched with running strips of leather knotwork.

Eurohiking, our bodies ready to burst from within the frayed seams of our overworn garments washed irregularly in bidets spanning the continent.

From the way he fell, dead weight, a falling ingot or a sack of meal dropped from the haymow that shudders the barn and bursts its own seams, Prew knew.

Natalia would have to resew the seam, and she was much less neat than Anna.

The sea-water splashed in through the scuppers and through the ports, or leaked in, a little at a time, through the seams.

But she was barefoot, and white scars seamed her ribs, licking down between breast and second nipple, familiar on the dark skin.

Right at the point where it had devoured half of the building it was Seamed to.

The quick aging of Kolnar had seamed and scored it, until the starved hunger of the soul within showed through the flesh.

His body was matte-black except where the dusty gray of scars seamed it, a gaunt thing of massive bones and muscles shrunken and knotted and still powerful enough to crack teak beams.