The deadly beam from his weapon slithered over the wall, searing a great molten gash in the crystal.
Joan thrust the gag into the thick gash of a mouth, choking off a torrent of imprecations in the guttural Mercutian tongue.
Urga's gray gash of a mouth seemed to smear slowly over the rest of his face.
The beetling walls narrowed in until the gash was scarcely fifteen feet wide.
So, tucking the precious cylinder into his tunic, Kirby headed on up the gash of a canyon.
Kirby's first move after pulling both himself and the horse away from the spring, was to glance up the long, deeply shaded canyon which he had entered--a gash hacked into the breast of the steep mountain as by a titanic ax.
I shouldn't have guessed that the gashwas caused by a rifle, though," admitted Joe, with candour.
Because the gash on this side of the branch slants in that direction, looking at it from below.
He drank as long as the gash gave forth water and then sat down under the blades of the palm, content and thankful, realizing that there was always hope in the very heart of despair.
This tool may safely abolish the 'air from the lip of the drummer when the train 'ave to wiggle, but it will not gash the jugular; it will not release the bluest blood of France that courses through one's veins.
Unknown to him, a splinter of metal had cut a clean gash just above the knee.
I've had the deuce of a job to stop the flow of arterial blood from a gash in his leg.
He stepped inside, took up the cradle with the telltale gash in the hood, carried it through the kitchen and set it outside the door, in the shed.
Henriette's eyes were narrow slits, become like her mother's, and her lips tightly compressed made her mouth a short gash and drew down her nose till the cartilage of the thin bridge showed white.
A gash showed on the soldier's cheek and his hand reached for his arm where the torn flesh was trickling red.
Dale grasped one hand, but the free one reached his face, the fingers sinking into the flesh and making a deepgash in his cheek.
Dale did not move, and when at last Sanderson stood over the fallen man he saw that his eyes were closed and that a great gash had been cut in his forehead near the right temple.
Portia gives herself that gash without flinching, and bears it without a murmur, as an exercise and proof of fortitude; and she translates her pains into smiles, all to comfort and support her husband.
Ralph was speculating on how long his fuel would last when he saw an irregular gash in the tops of the trees ahead.
There was a long, narrow gash that appeared smooth enough for a landing and he set the mail ship down cautiously.
The dog was dead, and it looked for a while as though Tebu, with a foot-long gash across his thigh and bleeding like one of the pigs that lay beside him, would follow suit.
William Simmons cuts a gash in his throat; the Alderman is not satisfied with this, but having looked very narrowly into the wound, declares it to be a proper case for the treadmill.
One of the others was bleeding from a gash along the cheek where a bullet had zipped its way, and Edwards shouted in vain for Staines to join them; the clerk had disappeared.
XXV Soon as fierce Sir Hagan felt the gash and pain, With his sword uplifted he rush'd upon the Dane.
He felt the edge of his hatchet, climbed the steep ascent, and struck a gash in the stem of the nearest poplar.
Then he took his axe from his belt and cut a gash in the bark of the nearest tree to mark the spot.
Gash in the face don't look well, but is in no way alarming.
It rewards one well for penetrating the deep gash which has been made into the earth.
She brought water in a basin, a sponge, and a piece of clean linen which she speedily reduced to strips; and after helping me remove the parka proceeded to dress the gash in my forearm with deft tenderness.
The sun rested on the jagged mountain range to the west, and the river caught its slanting beams till it lay below us like cloth of gold, a glittering yellow gash in the somber woods.
Peel this smoothly from the side, using the hunting knife; trim neatly and cut off the leg at the knee; gash the thickest part of the flesh and press shreds of pork into the gashes, with two or three thin slices skewered to the upper part.
Prick a slightgash in the head to admit the lip hook, which should be an inch and a half above the second one and see that the back of the bait rests securely in the barb of the middle hook.
Only for a moment; for as he stood regarding him, now close up to the body, he saw what explained all--a gash great as he could have himself inflicted!
As Snively was unloosed from the cross, and dragged out beyond the water-jet, the hideous gash along his cheek looked still more hideous from its blanching.
Among the six who survive are Snively, the overseer, and Blount Blackadder, the former showing a gash across his cheek, evidently made by a spear-blade.
The skull had been fractured by the blow, and there was a gash produced by the nail in the board.
There was, as the reader already knows, a ravine behind Wenderholme Hall, which was a gash in the great hill that divided Wenderholme from Shayton.
