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He had felt the blush of shame, yet he had remembered, and white anger had embossed the dull scars; it was impossible that he should forget.

From A Splendid Hazard by MacGrath, Harold

"Yes," I agreed; but it was not at the message I was looking; it was at the sheet upon which it was written—a sheet which had embossed at the top the words "S. S. Umbria."

From That Affair at Elizabeth by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

The similar boxes later made in England usually had embossed ornamentation.

From The Social History of Smoking by Apperson, George Latimer