Yet at the sight that I presented he lost some of his high colour, and recoiled to stare at my armour, battered, Dinted, and splashed with browning stains, which loudly proclaimed the fray through which I had been.
"The Shame of Motley"
Raphael Sabatini
"We are none of us much to be boasted of," remarked the old leaden Teapot; "I'm sure I have been battered and Dinted till I've no shape left.
"Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves"
Frances Freeling Broderip
By the bulkhead, tall and dark, Stood Thrand Rame of Thelemark, A figure gaunt and grand; On his hairy arm imprinted Was an anchor, azure-tinted; Like Thor's hammer, huge and Dinted Was his brawny hand.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow