Sentence examples for birthmark from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday night celebrations were expected in Chicago, and elsewhere, as America prepared to welcome the first black president-elect of a country born with the ugly birthmark of slavery.

Nevus, plural Nevi, congenital skin lesion, or birthmark, caused by abnormal pigmentation or by proliferation of blood vessels and other dermal or epidermal structures.

In the early 13th-century Guillaume de Dôle by Jean Renart, the birthmark is a rose; and in the Roman de Violette, written after 1225 by Gerbert de Montreuil, it is a violet.

Finally, there are many examples of the "persecuted heroine" theme; in one variety a person having knowledge of some "corporal sign"—a birthmark or mole on a lady wagers with her husband that he will seduce her and offer proof that he has done so (this is sometimes called the "Imogen theme" from its use in Shakespeare's Cymbeline).

A common genetic abnormality is the nevus, often called a mole or birthmark.

Bartolo demands proof of his claim, so Figaro shows him a birthmark on his arm a birthmark that reveals that he is the love child of Marcellina and Bartolo.

Many of the Romantic themes found in Hawthorne's longer fiction are addressed in the stories for example, the conflict between reason and emotion in the Gothic tales "Rappaccini's Daughter" and "The Birthmark" and between Puritan religion and the supernatural in "Young Goodman Brown".

Vascular nevi, or hemangiomas, produce the familiar "port wine stain" birthmark; they are composed of blood vessels and often resolve themselves with time.

Jim Sturgess stars as a photographer's assistant who's cripplingly self-conscious about the heart-shaped birthmark on his face.

He sermonizes about "the implacable wrath in my heart", and how's he haunted by his victim's "strawberry-type birthmark".

One has a dreadful stammer; another a port-wine birthmark.