Besides dealing a severe blow to the Slav cause, it perpetuated the recent infamous spoliations and challenged every one concerned to further conflicts.
Consequently, the Italo-Turkish War (with its sequel, the Balkan War of 1912) dealt him a severe blow.
Christian staggered, as if he had received a severe blow; and the blood ran to his face in such a current of passion, that the Duke concluded he was struck with an apoplexy.
But the latter, who had never removed his eye from him, struck him a severe blow on the nose with his pole, and he instantly turned tail like a beaten hound, and fled howling to the further extremity of the area.
Her affections had received a severe blow in Courtenay's relinquishment of his pretensions to her hand, and it required all her pride and mastery over herself to bear up against it.
Wolfytt, who was nailing the girdle at the time, commanded him to keep silence, and enforced the order by striking him a severe blow on the temples with the hammer.
He continued:--"I admit that the entrance of a French army into Spain was a measure of disparagement to Great Britain; that it was a severe blow to the feelings of this country.
Lee was attempting to join Washington's force with 3000 men, when he was captured, and his loss seems to have been considered a severe blow to the cause of the Americans.
I am, however, clearly of opinion, that they will not move that way until they have endeavored to give a severe blow to this army.
The ruin of Ferguson's detachment, from which so much had been expected, was a severe blow to Cornwallis; it disconcerted his plans and prevented his progress northward.
This was a severe blow to the commerce on which Congress placed great dependence for supplies to the army and for sustaining its own credit.
The parties fought another round, and the deceased at the conclusion fell from a severe blow; Wood fell heavily on him.
St. Leger's defeat dealt a severe blow to the plans and prospects of Burgoyne.
As it was, the deadly fire of the riflemen inflicted a severe blow.
But the time lost in coming about was to prove a severe blow to the Germans.
The buffalo just brought his right horn past the tree, and scraping it up the trunk so as to send all the loose pieces of bark flying, caught the Kafir a severe blow on the inside of the knee, nearly knocking him out of the tree.
Apart from gun-shot injuries, it is most frequently broken by a severe blow or crush.
The explanation of these widespread hæmorrhages is to be found, according to Duret, in the disturbance of the cerebro-spinal fluid which accompanies a severe blow on the head.
The use of the X-rays has shown that in many cases in which prolonged stiffness has followed a severe blow of the shoulder, there has been a fracture of the anatomical neck.
In fracture by direct violence, such as the passage of a wheel over the limb or a severe blow, the bones give way at the point of impact, and the line of fracture tends to be transverse, both bones being broken at the same level (Fig.
Rigorism was dealt a severe blow by the condemnation issued by Alexander VIII.
The expulsion of the Jesuits in 1759 was a severe blow to the missions in Brazil.
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