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Example sentences for "mortally wounded"

  • First died Engelier the Gascon, mortally wounded by the lance of that Saracen who swore brotherhood to Ganelon; next Samson, and the noble Duke Anseis.

  • Oliver slew the heathen king's brother, and one by one the Twelve Peers proved their mettle on the twelve champions of King Marsile, and left them dead or mortally wounded on the field.

  • Mortally wounded, he called to his flag captain, "Fight the ship as long as she swims," and then fell dead.

  • Mortally wounded he simply asked: "Did I lead them straight, Sir?

  • Three men were killed and two mortally wounded, who died soon after.

  • It was in this lane that Major Jacob, the gallant Commander of the 1st Bengal Fusiliers, fell, mortally wounded.

  • In a few minutes more Ruttun Sing was mortally wounded, and Dal Sing, the Jemadar of his company, a man of as great courage as Ruttun Sing, but not of the same excitable nature, was killed outright.

  • Thirty-five were dead, of whom twenty-three had been killed in battle or mortally wounded; and six were prisoners in the hands of the enemy, of whom two died.

  • Notwithstanding the severity of the fire to which we were exposed but one of our number was injured--mortally wounded, I was told.

  • Parks, of Company D, is mortally wounded; Daniel Graham is made prisoner.

  • Seven men of Company D were killed or mortally wounded.

  • He himself had been killed at the first broadside, and almost at the same instant Burrows too fell, mortally wounded.

  • The British frigate was now beaten beyond recovery; nevertheless the flag was kept flying, and it was after this that Captain Lambert fell, mortally wounded.

  • The American loss, army and navy, was a little over three hundred; among whom was General Pike, an excellent soldier, who commanded the landing and was mortally wounded by the explosion of a magazine.

  • Woodbridge, and that Phillips had killed or mortally wounded Woodbridge.

  • Among those of the enemy, mortally wounded, was Captain William Leslie, a son of the Scotch Earl of Levin, of whom mention is made in the note on page 332, vol.

  • Colonel Donop, the commander of the expedition, fell, mortally wounded, at the first fire.

  • Simcoe found him shockingly mangled and mortally wounded; he sent to a neighboring farm for an ox-cart, on which the unfortunate young gentleman was placed.

  • Mortally wounded, he was removed on board one of the enemy's ships, and in two days died.

  • Pakenham, mortally wounded, reeled and fell from his saddle, officer after officer was picked off by those unequalled marksmen, the field was covered with dead and dying.

  • There is nothing you can do for me,' he said; 'I am mortally wounded, and can live but a little while.

  • Cole Davis, supposed to be mortally wounded, was left on the field.

  • Ross, commanding Company C, fell, mortally wounded, and with him five or six of the rank and file of the regiment.

  • Illustration: Mortally wounded, both men fell to the ground, and so fatal had been Jurobei's thrusts that in a few minutes they breathed their last.

  • Mortally wounded, both men fell to the ground, and so fatal had been Jurobei's thrusts that in a few minutes they breathed their last.

  • The Count, a brave and experienced officer, fell, mortally wounded; and about 400 of his troops were killed.

  • Wooster fell, mortally wounded, and his troops were obliged to give way.


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