Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.
He took off his battered hat.
Still at the front, iron armour is worn and battered thin, And here at home food-sticks are made of jade tears.
And we'd practice it each night on his return from work, the serious toddler in the battered Cleveland Indian's cap running up to the giant father to shake hands again and again until it was firm enough.
I cannot tell you how strong my love for you was back then, when I returned to you on leave in the September, feeling battered, bruised and fragile.
The notion of an animal "sixth sense" -- or some other mythical power -- is an enduring one which the evidence on Sri Lanka's battered coast is likely to add to.
"In a hurricane you just hold on for the ten or twelve hours that you are going to be battered by those winds," Champion said.
The clergyman's little daughter appeared to me a far lovelier rose, as she sat on her stool under the straggling hedge, hugging and caressing her doll with the battered pasteboard cheeks.
Papa would bring an old battered coal shovel and an old-fashioned ice chest with him.
