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Example sentences for "blow from"

  • The tumult increased; there was a rush to arms on all sides; the coadjutor was felled to the ground by a blow from a stone.

  • He was wounded in the head by a blow from a cutlass in the second charge, for he and I had nothing on but our cuirasses, not having had time to arm ourselves further, so surprised and hurried were we.

  • Pare relates the case of a soldier who received a blow from a halberd, penetrating the left ventricle, and who walked to the surgeon's tent to have his wound dressed and then to his own tent 260 yards away.

  • Lazzaretto reports the history of the case of a seaman whose atlas was dislocated by a blow from a falling sail-yard.

  • Muhlig was consulted by a mason who, ten years before, had received a blow from a stiletto near the left side of the sternum.

  • Another officer was stabbed twice by a woman in the crowd; and another, disabled by a blow from an iron bar, was saved by a German woman, who hid him between two mattresses when the pursuing mob was searching her house for him.

  • A blow from a club at length brought him down, and as he fell he was impaled on the picket of an iron fence, which caught him under the chin and killed him.

  • For peace rules o'er the land Until they speak of craven woe, Until our rights receive a blow From foe's or brother's hand.

  • Another Confederate lieutenant, rushing into the battery, laid his hand upon a gun and demanded its surrender; his answer was a blow from a handspike that dashed out his brains.

  • Oroche, "or only die after--" A blow from a hatchet on his head cut short his words.

  • But if terror paralyses his limbs, as it did his hands just now, the foremost Indian will break his head with a blow from a hatchet.

  • Each bear was wounded again, but Dave received a blow from a rough paw that sent him headlong.

  • Illustration: Dave received a blow from a rough paw that sent him headlong.

  • He arrived in time to see an arm passed through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the glass.

  • The Ankle-Chain must have undergone a Certain Preparatory Manipulation to be thus broken with a Blow from a Hammer BOOK THIRD.

  • Nay more, sir, but a day or two before that he saved the life of Mr. Clifton, he had submitted to the insult of a blow from him, rather than fight a duel.

  • Read and tell me how I ought to act--I have received a blow from him, Oliver!

  • No blow from a halberd could have inflicted such a wound!

  • Why, hard fortune to you, Lamh Laudher, will you take a blow from a Neil?

  • If he got a blow from you on my account, he'd never forgive it to either you or me.

  • He fired his revolver, and two of the convicts fell, but a blow from a knife which he could not ward off made a gash in his shoulder.

  • They were not men to mind the wind tearing at their hair, nor the rain wetting them to the skin, and a blow from a hammer is worth just as much in bad as in fine weather.

  • An instant later the capybara, dragged to the bank, was killed by a blow from Neb's stick.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    already observed; beloved husband; billed curlew; blow from; blown rose; did not think proper; earlier period; general theory; help you; less completely; little expected; mathematical instruments; matters little; other sects; particular account; received the following letter; remained some; stop the; strange dream; take effect; three sorts; used always; when life