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Wound in sentence

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After dressing the poor man's wound, I redid the linen bandages around his head, and I turned to Captain Nemo.
"How did he get this wound?"
In fact, the mystery of that last afternoon when we were locked in prison and put to sleep, the captain's violent precaution of snatching from my grasp a spyglass poised to scour the horizon, and the fatal wound given that man during some unexplained collision suffered by the Nautilus, all led me down a plain trail.
Its wound hadn't weakened it because it went with tremendous speed.
He tried to make stones do the work of bullets, and after several fruitless attempts, he managed to wound one of these magnificent bustards.
I'm sure the Canadian was sorry that these fishermen couldn't harpoon our sheet-iron cetacean and mortally wound it.
To speak to you he threw back his head with an idiotic laugh; then his bluish eyeballs, rolling constantly, at the temples beat against the edge of the open wound.
Thus, for six consecutive months, one could read in the "Fanal de Rouen" editorials such as these—"All who bend their steps towards the fertile plains of Picardy have, no doubt, remarked, by the Bois-Guillaume hill, a wretch suffering from a horrible facial wound.
He had in his throat a large wound from which the blood seemed to be flowing.
These servants, frail, persecuted, martyred upon earth, as you can see from the still bleeding wound of Saint Clement, are triumphant in heaven.
While, in the most perfect weather ever seen, the procession wound its way slowly through Besancon, and halted at the glittering stations which all the local authorities had vied with one another in erecting, the church remained wrapped in a profound silence.
I pity you,' she told him, seeking to wound his pride which she knew to be so irritable.
Whenever anyone earned Mademoiselle de La Mole's displeasure, she knew how to punish him by a witticism so calculated, so well chosen, apparently so harmless, so aptly launched, that the wound it left deepened the more he thought of it.
He thanked heaven for not having let him wound her mortally.
He recovered all his self-possession and had no hesitation in turning the knife in the wound.
Anyway, nothing has been lost yet, and if we can succeed in getting the office director, despite everything, on our side - and several actions have been undertaken to this end - then everything is a clean wound, as a surgeon would say, and we can wait for the results with some comfort.
On the other hand, the man who wound it up thinks the whole cause of the muddle rests with the man who is trying to unwind it.
Harris got off with merely a flesh wound.
The bottom of the valley was an even plain, that fell with a slight inclination from the foot of the hills on either side, to the level of a natural meadow that wound through the country on the banks of a small stream, by whose waters it was often inundated and fertilized.
"Is there any hope, my cousin, that your friend can survive his wound?" said the lady, advancing towards her kinsman, with a smile of benevolent regard.
In what manner might you have received this wound, sir?""From the sword of a rebel dragoon," said the colonel, with emphasis.
The wound of this officer was severe, though the surgeon persevered in saying that it was without danger.
"True, true," interrupted Frances, blushing to the eyes; "but he leaves his room, and thinks his wound lightly purchased by the pleasure of being with his friends.
If," she added, with a tremulous lip, "this dreadful suspicion that is affixed to his visit were removed, I could consider his wound of little moment."
At length, a single horse chaise was seen making its way carefully among the stones which lay scattered over the country road that wound through the valley, and approached the cottage.
The surgeon turned a vacant eye on his companion as he uttered this soliloquy, while the penetrating looks of the trooper had already discovered another pile of rocks, which, jutting forward, nearly obstructed the highway that wound directly around its base.
"Certes, there is little pleasure in a wound which, from its nature, is incurable."
"He was; nay, he received a wound in the combat.
"Then you are a father, and know how to pity a father's woes; you cannot, will not, wound a heart that is now nearly crushed.
At the foot of the hills, and for some distance up the dark valley that wound among the mountains, a thick underwood of saplings had been suffered to shoot up, where the heavier growth was felled for the sake of the fuel.
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