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Example sentences for "severe wound"

  • Captain Pemberton, who was with my brother and myself, received a severe wound, the ball passing directly under the ham.

  • Ciudad Rodrigo, and received a severe wound in his head.

  • She was no stranger to a battle-field, and had received a severe wound in Whitelock’s disastrous retreat from Buenos Ayres (1807) at the time her husband was a sergt.

  • Morales, although then suffering from a severe wound in the knee.

  • Private John O’Brien, of the 8th company, who the moment after received a severe wound, which ultimately occasioned the loss of his leg.

  • Here I learned that Colonel Hunter was disabled by a severe wound, and that General McDowell was on the field.

  • If a doctor has treated the slave of a freedman for a severe wound with a bronze lancet and has caused him to die, he shall give back slave for slave.

  • If a doctor has treated a man for a severe wound with a lancet of bronze and has cured the man, or has opened a tumour with a bronze lancet and has cured the man’s eye; he shall receive ten shekels of silver.

  • If a physician has treated a free-born man for a severe wound with a lancet of bronze and has caused the man to die, or has opened a tumour of the man with a lancet of bronze and has destroyed his eye, his hands one shall cut off.

  • The axe struck him in the shoulder-blade and cut down to below the arm, inflicting a severe wound.

  • A little later Asgrim went to Hallsteinn's house and gave him a severe wound.

  • It entered above his right knee and pierced to the bone, making a severe wound.

  • The count of Ureña, who had seen his son stretched by his side, and received a severe wound himself, made the most desperate efforts to rally the fugitives, but was at length swept away by the torrent.

  • He had received a severe wound on the head from a stone, and a javelin had pierced quite through his leg.

  • Being attacked by a young savage who aimed a blow at her head with his tomahawk, she sprang on one side, and the stroke fell on her shoulder, inflicting a severe wound.

  • Unfortunately for her, she there received a severe wound on the thigh, and was left for dead on the field, which led to her real sex being discovered.

  • At last she received a severe wound in the leg, and was made prisoner.

  • Escaped safely from the battle of Cross Lanes, but received a severe wound in the right elbow at the battle of Winchester, for which he was discharged, Nov.

  • In the latter engagement, he received a severe wound in the thigh, for which he was discharged, Feb.

  • Reed endeavored to explain away the remarks in Lee's letter; but Washington's affectionate confidence in him as a sympathizing friend had received a severe wound.

  • Sumter who had received a severe wound in the breast, remained several hours on the field of action; but understanding the enemy would be powerfully reinforced in the morning, he crossed the Tyger River in the night.

  • Before he reached it a severe wound in the right leg with a musket ball completely disabled him, and he had to be borne from the field.

  • In the case of a severe wound, especially if it is likely to become the object of a criminal investigation, the physician should always require to see the dress of the wounded.

  • Thus sometimes a slight wound of the brain may be instantly fatal and often a severe wound in another part is not so.

  • A man may die from the rupture of an aneurism, from an apoplexy or some other morbid condition after receiving a severe wound.

  • At the battle of Antietam he suffered a severe wound by a ball entering below the left eye.

  • Infantry, and received a severe wound in the right shoulder at the battle of Fredericksburg, Dec.

  • He then cut at me again, inflicting a severe wound on my head and partially depriving me of my senses.

  • Barnum was also mortally wounded, and died on the fourteenth of the following month, while John Quinlan received a severe wound.

  • Grover was badly wounded by a rifle ball through the thigh, and David Clark received a severe wound.


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