Meanings of swollen knuckles in English

She looked down at it, at the incriminating swollen knuckles, the bruises.

Emma saw a few swollen knuckles and two digits that veered off in strange angles.

The big problem with vigilantism, he muses, isn't the swollen knuckles or the loose teeth.

He remembered once asking that taciturn, unreachable man if there was pain in his swollen knuckles.

He'd have cut you down if I hadn't stopped him, said Merrihew, rubbing his swollen knuckles.

No swollen knuckles and no broken nose.

Bauman opened the door and called the guards in, the bloodstained handkerchief still bound around his swollen knuckles.

Arrellano had found him at midnight, setting type with fresh swollen knuckles, or mayhap it was his lip, new-split, that still bled.

She was white-haired and hollow-featured, her skin paper-thin and deathly pale, bangles bunched at her wrists, fat-stoned rings trapped on her fingers by swollen knuckles.

"Danny?" Mr. Braddock knocked his swollen knuckles on the table.

"About why I let myself get involved in the whole mess." She studied her swollen knuckles.

"That was hard, too." She thought of telling him about the wheelchair, the swollen knuckles, but didn't bother.