Shouts, curses, the screams of women and the groans of men, steel striking steel, boots on cobbles, the sounds of swords in flesh, of blades scraping bone.

Blood squirted; incisors scraped bone.

It had then taken two more slaves several days to scrape the melted flesh and bone off the brazier's bowl.

The blade scraped bone.

Her hearing, made acute by fear, picked up the sounds of teeth scraping bone and of sniffing.

My hands had gone almost black, and the rope scraped bone when I moved.

It crushed skin, scraped bone, went on up, opening lip and cheek and forehead.

Its sturdy thickness, and the sharpness of its point, were quite sufficient to let it stab through garments and through flesh, to scrape bone, and probe toward a certain nerve.

The sword went into Lillywhite's eye, and a slithering crunch ran up Roger's arm, as metal scraped bone and went through to something softer, where it stuck.