All that he was perfectly certain of, at that moment, was that he was awake, with a contused pain all over, and a very stiff left hand and foot.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
God bless my soul-" He paused, staring from the yellow faces of the pugilists to the battered and contused features of his own seamen.
"Merry-Garden and Other Stories"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
My remains of uniform literally clung to me in rags, my bare shoulder looked a contused mass of battered flesh, my hair was matted, and my face blackened by powder stains and streaked with blood.
"My Lady of the North"
Randall Parrish