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"Yes," he said emphatically, noting that played-out coal mines had seamed his own state with pockets of subsistence-level existence.

From Time Magazine Archive

In reality, however, Phoebe was not yet forty; it was care and hardship which had seamed her once blooming face, and brought on prematurely the appearance of age.

From Friends and Neighbors by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

Since December, 1914, the Germans had seamed the western slopes with trenches, a network of tunnels and of concrete redoubts.

From With Our Soldiers in France by Eddy, Sherwood

Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the repulsive sneer to the face!

From The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

To such an extent had these ideas progressed that some persons attributed the furrows with which penitential works had seamed the brow of the humble priest to an immoral mode living.

From The Life of Blessed John B. Marie Vianney, Curé of Ars With a Novena and Litany to this Zealous Worker in the Vineyard of the Lord by Anonymous