Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "pock-mark".
Doarty because of a certain sixty, weary, beerless days that the pock-marked one had spent at the Bridewell on Mr.
De Batz, smiling and complacent, was leaning back in his chair, looking at his young friend with perfect contentment expressed in every line of his pock-marked face and in the very attitude of his well-fed body.
Prosper, with his red hair, big, candid eyes, pock-marked skin, coming out of the Miramar by the little back door and hurrying across to the Brasserie des Artistes.
The eyes were little pock-marks, like raisins sunk into a doughball, and there were no visible brow ridges.
The rusty steamer lay at the quayside and disgorged from its entrails bristling Anatolians with pock-marked faces, cannons and horses.
Telegin, or Waffles, as I am sometimes called on account of my pock-marked face.
His face was still pock-marked with spots where Helen's birdshot had nicked him, and he wore a piece of adhesive tape across his earlobe.
It was a Mercator projection, of the surface of a world, pock-marked by craters.
Red-eyes and sidewinders burst like coveys of incandescent birds from beneath the wings of the buzz bombs, trailing red or blue or green fire, accelerated at a frightening rate, screaming in bloodthirsty joy as they suicidally dived into the bonfire wagons or chased skyrockets or, all too often, were not fooled and raced along a few meters above the ground to spread liquid fire over the pock-marked landscape.
Cigarette ends spotted the linoleum like the pock-marks of some tropical disease and great piles of newspapers, fine art publications and scientific journals were stacked into every available corner.