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In Stalin's youth his face had been delicately handsome, but revolution, war, power and, above all, will had abraded it into somber strength.

From Time Magazine Archive

We could tell that the barrow had been trundled down the hill at top speed—by the manner in which the iron tire had abraded the surface of the slope.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

At length, however, he approached Oke Tor, marked the tremendous havoc of the firing, and noted a great grey splash upon the granite, where one shell had abraded its weathered face.

From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden

They were both aware that his deportment was better than hers; and he perceived that the correction had abraded her susceptibility.

From The Price of Love by Bennett, Arnold

Certainly, no one familiar with the facts could suppose that floating ice or icebergs had abraded, polished, and furrowed the bottom of narrow valleys as we find them worn, polished, and grooved by glaciers.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various