The sting of the wound in my shoulder made the pack an uncomfortable burden, but I bore it as best I could, for I was afraid that Moira would notice me if I kept wriggling it into an easier position.
I would not have been human had I not felt the old wound pricking me again, and I certainly would not have been a Carstairs had the mere sight of her apparent contrition moved me to forgive her on the spot.
Without more ado he led the way down through the tangle of forest and across the open glades until they reached the narrow track that wound like a monstrous brown ribbon through the enormous gums.
The hose consist of gaiters, kept in place by means of a broad blue riband wound round the leg.
A long piece of woollen material, striped with bright colours, is thrown over the shoulders or wound round the body: this is the cloak.
A China crape sash is woundround the waist, and the vest is of deerskin or velvet with silver embroidery.
Some wore a sort of red stuff cap, embellished with pearls, shells, and little flat bits of brass; others had wound round their heads a fillet formed of a piece of bark, the deeply fringed ends of which stuck out like feathers.
Each man has a sword and two lances; the latter always hit the mark, and their wound is deadly.
For I work by machinery, just like an engine; and am full of wheels and springs inside; and am wound up very carefully, so that I cannot help going.
I was wound up once and for all, so long ago, that I forget all about it.
The “dead were found lying as they fought in ranks; every wound was in front.
Coming as that duel did not long after the “meeting” between Hawkey and Seton, in which the latter received a wound that resulted in his death, public opinion became aroused against the practice.
Garibaldi wounded; a consultation of surgeons as to whether the bullet was in the wound or not--one would think, not a very difficult enigma to solve by men of experience in the field.
Whilst supper was preparing, in a panic lest she should be recognised she tied her hair high and wound it with a rope of pearls--her lover's first gift to her.
They knew not what dim hours went on, went by, For while they slept the clock stopt newly wound As the cold hardened.
Soon he gathered the balsam dew From the sorrel-leaf and the henbane bud; Over each wound the balm he drew, And with cobweb lint he stanched the blood.
It was only a little wound on the skipper's thumb, but the dog's teeth were sharp, and the blood had come.
Defn: A wound or injury directly produced by causes external to the body; also, violence producing a wound or injury; as, rupture of the stomach caused by traumatism.
Defn: A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.
Weaving) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is woundin a shuttle.
To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon.
When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
An instrument consisting of a woodmen bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width, and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.
Warp beam, the roller on which the warp is wound in a loom.
To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.
The drum upon which the rope is wound in a capstan, crane, or the like.
The road wound endlessly up and down, through a green country, with barely a pale patch of reaped field, and all veiled in mist and driving rain.
Its body appeared to be tightly wound with scarlet thread.
Anton, barefooted and grotesque with a red turban wound about his head, led the procession, beating out a rhythm and shaking the gourd rattle which had been stolen from the thatched cottage.
In this basin, enclosed within the arms of the mountain, wound a little stream over a bed of moss, from a spring beneath the roots of two large pines.
But one day, having gone to the well to draw water, he took the rope from the bucket and wound it round his body, from the loins to the neck, and wore it till his flesh was cut into by the rope.
Some time previous to his death, he had the consolation of celebrating the jubilee at Thonon, by which the history of the conversion of the Chablais was wound up.
Swords clave, but did not wound him; Mioelnir struck him, and he was not crushed.
Thou art a strange scarred eunuch to call such a one sweet--aye, to call a wound in thy flesh a victory.
When I awoke blood was there from a third wound, yea, most noble mistress, that wound which did rob me of man's most sacred possession.
The wound rankled and became envenomed, steeping his whole soul in bitterness and discontent.
If you had read him so truly as to discover all this for yourself, you should not have imparted this knowledge without warning, knowing how much it wouldwound his jealous reticence.
He tore his dress off his breast to feel if there was a wound there; then he knelt down to me, and took hold of my knees to pray of me not to kill him.
From time to time she paused in order to kiss my hand, then she would recommence to press her lips to the lips of the wound in order to coax forth a few more ruddy drops.
Although she swallowed only a few drops, the fear of weakening me soon seized her, and she carefully tied a little band around my arm, afterward rubbing the wound with an unguent which immediately cicatrised it.
Your resignation, if you are resigned, has the power of awakening keen remorse in the soul of your wife and of her lover; for their happiness teaches them the depth of the wound they have inflicted upon you.
The actions which clash with our interests and thus disobey the laws of conscience wound us more than any other; and if they are repeated call forth our hatred.
A book which succeeds, a piece which pleases, an article which is extolled, calls forth from the envious unsigned letters which wound us or those whom we love.
He would take the affair upon himself, and I have a chance to kill him, that Gorka--to wound him, at least.
I am now calmer, though it was not the kind of wound over which time has the quickest effect; on the contrary, the more I think, the sadder I grow.
You allude to some other letters, which I suppose have miscarried; for most of those I have got, were only a few hasty lines, calculated to wound the tenderness the sight of the superscriptions excited.
His heart was indeed wound up in the dear old land; but he did not forget in this love the allegiance and fealty he owed to the land of his adoption.
There is a mysterious sympathy between you and the clock and the little gold key, and if you lose the key after the clock is wound up the clock will go on forever, or at least until you find the key again.
He was a man, not very tall, and he had a muffler wound round his neck.
Then he wound both legs about the mast, gripped it firmly with his hands, and began to shin upward again.
Amaryllis put the hat on, and wound the scarf very loosely about her neck.
The wound he had received was so severe, that he knew his flight would be difficult and tardy, and he, therefore, avoided giving any signs of life as long as he had reason to believe the savages were in the vicinity.
O'Hara's hair nearly lifted the cap from his head, when he saw his foe sitting unharmed, and as scornful as though no bullet could wound him.
The cool fluid was taken from the brook in the canteens of the hunters, all the blood thoroughly washed from the Indian, and then the wound was carefully bandaged by Edith, from pieces of her own dress.
Come, go with us to the settlement and stay till your wound gets better," said Lewis.
You certainly know, though so loudly you vapour, His spite cannot wound who attempted the Drapier.
Let every man therefore look into his own heart, before he beginneth to abuse the reputation of another, and then he will hardly be so absurd as to throw a dart that will so certainly rebound and wound himself.
Who can soothe the hero's anguish, And can heal the wound that pains him?
And its oath the wretch has broken, Like a dog has soiled its honour, Brutally its brother bitten, Striking at its own relations, Let the blood rush forth in torrents, From the wound in torrents gushing.
But he could not think of any Words of origin of iron, Which might serve to bind the evil, And to close the gaping edges Of the great wound from the iron, By the blue edge deeply bitten.
Much already has this damsel Wrought by working with her spindle, On her own reel has she wound it, With her fingers much has finished.
Better will be my existence, And my life will be more happy, If I dwell among companions, As the tools of handicraftsmen, 190 Than to wound my own relations, And disgrace my own connections.
Then his magic spells he uttered, And himself began to speak them, Spells of origin, for healing, And to close the wound completely.
