Hemorrhages would burst beneath the skin, causing black bruises.
The patterns are tinged with black bruises that seep into the composition like a summer sky turning stormy.
Meanwhile, the security forces, manning roadblocks around the country, inspect drivers and their passengers for birdshot wounds — the most common injury to demonstrators confronted by security forces — and those with the telltale black bruises are seized and detained.
The breathing got heavier, and bout after bout showed on the wrestlers' bodies in burst skin, burning red slaps and deep black bruises.
He demanded she sit down on the floor so he could talk to her about something and, when she did not, he stood up from his seat and shook her furiously, pressing his fingers so forcefully into her skin that purple and black bruises snaked up and down her arms for the next two weeks.
"I got bashed up - black eye, bruised nose.
Both eyes were black, and bruises all over her body.
"When they unshackled me from the chair, my legs had turned black with bruises".
It is a conspiracy of silence entered into willingly because lies are easier than the truth – black eyes, bruises and missing teeth can all be explained away.
After the 2008 game, Tynes said, his foot was black from bruising and needed to be drained of fluid — the result of constantly kicking a ball that, in cold weather, can feel akin to kicking a brick.
As previously, police were called in last year after a brawl erupted during a cleaning session and ended with black eyes, bruises and bloody cuts when robed priests went at each other with brooms and stones.
