He had killed a faithful friend, and there was a raw place, in his breast that would not ease.

He made his words deliberately formal, to pull them back from the raw place where the king's question had taken them.

He seemed to have touched Provider One on a raw place.

And yet, when he went over to the table, Kate again suspected that she'd probed a raw place in him.

Salt gets into the raw places on my hands and knees.

He had more raw places on him than sound ones.

And yet even in this new raw place, there was life.

Apparently his voice had touched a raw place in her wounded heart.

When the iron came away, there was a raw place on her shoulder the size of a dime.

I'd experience the place raw, then rush to get out before nightfall.