They crowded around the grimy, unrecognisable Bishop and the girl with wonder and a little superstition, for it was plain that these two people must have come straight through the fire.
"The Shepherd of the North"
Richard Aumerle Maher
Her nose was unrecognisable.
"The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy"
Mabel Henriette Spielmann
A sharp ring at the bell startled him from his chair, and not giving his man-servant time to answer it, he went himself to the door and took from a messenger a telegram which he hastily tore open and read: "Have found in the Dordogne drowned body of young man, face unrecognisable, from description possibly Charles Rambert.
"Fantômas"
Pierre Souvestre Marcel Allain