It was within 18 yards of their position that this brave young man received a mortal wound, when he was carried from the field.
Both these Gentlemen fell on the occasion; the former surviving only for a short time, the effects of a mortal wound.
Burke, an Officer of the highest hopes, received a mortal wound, and Lieutenant Neville was hurt.
I was sensible that I might fail to inflict a mortal wound, but delighted to consider that the blood which would be made to flow would finally release me, and that meanwhile my pains would be alleviated by swallowing this blood.
The fourth was a girl, who, though alive, seemed to have received a mortal wound.
Though bereaved of strength, and fraught with the belief that I had received a mortal wound, my caution was not remitted.
Just before the retreat, Jasper, while endeavoring to replace them upon the works, received a mortal wound.
The soldier who was appointed to guard him, fired upon him, and inflicted a mortal wound, it having been, as was supposed, an act of private revenge.
After an action of three hours, General Braddock, who had fearlessly breasted the vollies of the enemy, and had lost successively three horses from under him, received a mortal wound.
The gravity of the harm done by defamation is well expressed by St. Bernard when he says that defamation at one blow inflicts a mortal Wound on the person defamed, on the defamer himself, and on the listener.
Montcalm, who was gallantly fighting in the front rank of the French left, received a mortal wound, and died the next morning about five o'clock, and was buried in an September 14.
The agreement of the history and anecdotes is a mortal wound to the reputation of the praefct.
His son and heir Stauracius escaped from the field with a mortal wound; yet six months of an expiring life were sufficient to refute his indecent, though popular declaration, that he would in all things avoid the example of his father.
He anticipated the hour of the attack, outstripped his tardy followers, and was pierced with a mortal wound, after he had slain with his own hand twelve of his boldest antagonists.
Judge Dawes said, "Although slavery is not smitten by an apoplexy, yet it has received a mortal wound, and will die of consumption.
TXT]4416 A marriage without love is dishonour Bear in mind that we are sentimentalists--The eye is our servant I am not ashamed Love that shrieks at a mortal wound, and bleeds humanly Love the poor devil My mistress!
You said the minute you saw the President you felt he had suffered a mortal wound?
It was there that we lost Acting Sergeant Major Humes, who was struck down by a mortal woundin the chest, while he was bravely cheering on the men.
French, of Company D, who had borne the national colors in all the battles of the campaign, received a mortal wound, and fell in the line.
Holmes, of Milford, commanding Company B, who received a mortal wound.
For the murderer or suicide, especially the former, may go on wounding after the infliction of a mortal wound, especially as it is the exception, and not the rule, to die instantly after a mortal wound.
A wound may result fatally without being a mortal wound, as when a slight wound causes death on account of some wound infection.
Blood is not necessarily found on the weapon used to inflict a mortal wound, especially in the case of blunt instruments.
Two of our company are here dead, the one being brakeman who received mortal wound in making brave defence of life and property.
So I have lost all I have of fortune by this outrage of scoundrels who I have made to pay dearly, shooting one and putting end to him as he dropped in his tracks with a mortal wound.
Several of his knights were dismounted, and swarms of Moors, with lifted knives, gathered round them as they lay, searching for the joints of the armour, which might admit a mortal wound.
One, of the guards lay bathed in blood upon the ground; they raised him: he had attempted to seize the prisoner, and had been stricken with a mortal wound.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mortal wound" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
