So Matthew joined what its young, battle-scarred veterans call "the system," the land of child welfare.

Perhaps it had been first class, but at the moment it looked every inch the battle-scarred veteran it was.

But I'm a battle-scarred veteran in such affairs and never loath to do what ought to be done.

The war took its toll of battle-scarred veterans in a number of inexplicable ways.

You haven't been defeated by corpses or robots or battle-scarred veterans.

But the three founders - now battle-scarred veterans of the diaper wars - are widening the front lines.

We know perfectly well who we are, a couple of battle-scarred veterans.

The Scotland Yard inspector on his trail is himself a battle-scarred veteran.

A battle-scarred veteran of nineteen had stopped a madman from blowing up Manhattan.

This was real, marching with battle-scarred veterans around her, and soon the fighting would be real.