Use wound in a sentence
Sentences ending with wound
- But, in truth, ye had good right to wound. [11]
- There was no wound. [11]
- We got to work on the letter again, and of course did not have to strike out the passage about the wound. [5]
- I would Polykarp were safe here, and that you had seen his wound. [10]
- But it was useless--he walked forth out of the carnage without a wound. [5]
- He asked him to tell them how and where he got his wound. [2]
- The stupor was to be attributed to the fall of a beam on his head, and the shock, rather than to the wound. [10]
- You cannot see them, but I can feel them, for not one of them has he drawn out of the wound. [10]
- Twice again did the Seigneur's weapon draw blood, once from the shoulder and once from the leg of his opponent, and the blood was flowing from each wound. [11]
- One stroke of the knife cut into the sleeve of Reeder's coat and passed downward in a slanting direction through his clothing, and entered his body at the small of the back; another blow struck more squarely, and made a much more dangerous wound. [5]
Short sentences using wound
- The road wound gently downward. [12]
Sentences containing wound two or more times
- She could wound him, indeed, and at length made up her mind that this was the only resource left her, although she would thereby wound herself more deeply. [9]
- A guide, similarly dressed, led the way down a flight of winding stairs, which wound and wound, and still kept on winding long after the thing ceased to be a novelty, and then terminated long before it had begun to be a pleasure. [5]
- Slowly she wound and wound the coil of golden hair about her neck, drawing it tighter, fold on fold, tighter and tighter. [11]
More example sentences with the word wound in them
- Assisted by a young apothecary, Sir Charles washed and dressed the wound, which was in the left groin, and to our anxious questions replied that there was a chance of recovery. [9]
- That must make you happy, father.--But tell us, pray tell us where the wound hurts that the murderer gave you? [10]
- When they reached Yaroslavl the wound had begun to fester (Natasha knew all about such things as festering) and the doctor had said that the festering might take a normal course. [2]
- He had a wound, which had been a bad one, evidently got from a piece of shell. [9]
- No blood, no wound, just a tiny pin-prick, as it were; and who would be the wiser? [11]
- As for his wound, how could it do otherwise than well under such hands? [6]
- Paul Van Swieten's wound was slight. [10]
- The road which wound up to the summit of the Beacon was narrow and uneven. [6]
- Far below them wound the Blue into its vale of sapphire shadows, with its hillsides of the mystic fabric of the backgrounds of the masters of the Renaissance. [9]
- The blows that wound the affections can only be healed by the affections, and not by the intellect and considerations of reason. [10]
- He tapped the wound lightly, and said with irony: "This is my note of hand for my debt, Shon McGann. [11]
- The cattle trail wound for miles and miles down the slope. [13]
- His riata was wound around the pummel of my saddle, and so, as he went by he dragged me from my horse and the two animals traveled briskly on without me. [5]
- I bandaged the wound a Hebrew woman dealt her and she acknowledged that her heart was filled with love for you, and that on her dying bed she regarded you as the idol of her soul. [10]
- The chiefs argued with her, and at last persuaded her to go home and prepare for the great work by taking proper rest, and also by having a leech look to a wound which she had received in her foot. [5]
- When the doctor who had been sent to me had finished his task of sewing up the wound and left us, an elderly woman entered, whose rank in life was somewhat difficult to determine. [10]
- Those of us who are wound the tightest go the farthest and strike the hardest. [9]
- Around our hats were wound many folds of soft white muslin, with the ends hanging and flapping down our backs--an idea brought from the Orient and used by tourists all over Europe. [5]
- The most costly were covered with fine red linen, wound about with strings of beads and gold ornaments, and with the name of the dead painted on the upper side. [10]
- I know you well, and that wound across your manly face, which adorns it like a purple badge of honor, was made by the sword now hanging at my side. [10]
- During the first week Dion's wound and fever still harassed him, but the prediction of Pyrrhus that the pure, fresh sea-air would benefit the sufferer had been fulfilled, and the monotonous days had passed swiftly enough to the young bride in caring for the invalid. [10]
- Though still somewhat weak from my wound and confinement, after dinner that Sunday I repaired to Gloucester Street. [9]
- They wound this way and that, far down into the secret depths of the cave, made another mark, and branched off in search of novelties to tell the upper world about. [5]
- Mary fetched some water and bathed her brow, and the burning wound in her head, and by the time Selene had once more opened her eyes, dame Hannah had returned. [10]
- A white cloth was wound round his head, the ends of which hung down to the shoulders. [10]
- Philippus, quite undaunted, was trying to adjust the bandage over his wound, when Rustem suddenly flung his arms round his body and tried with all his might, and with foaming lips, to drag him down. [10]
- Beyond and below was the spring-house, and there was the place where the brook dived under the ruined wall,--where Dorothy had wound into her hair the lilies of the valley before she sailed for London. [9]
- However, the rebuilding was put in hand, and, of course, the business had to be wound up and the shop closed before the old front was torn down. [10]
- If his wound was not mortal, what tragedy might now come! [11]
- He said I was his chenerous gong friendt, and he begged my barton if he had said anything to wound me. [8]
- Before the wound was healed I had to leave for Quebec. [11]
- You have "--it was hard, but the man's wound was mortal, and it must be said "you have consecrated our new church with your blood. [11]
- The grate, which was a wide one, was wound and screwed up tight, so as to hold no more than a little thin sandwich of fire. [12]
- The Weapon Ointment was a preparation used for the healing of wounds, but instead of its being applied to them, the injured part was washed and bandaged, and the weapon with which the wound was inflicted was carefully anointed with the unguent. [6]
- We had no wanton desire to wound even their feelings or trample upon their prejudices, but we were out of water, thus early in the day, and were burning up with thirst. [5]
- He had been very deferential to Miss Silence, and had wound himself into the confidence of Miss Badlam. [6]
- The doctor and valet lifted the cloak with which he was covered and, making wry faces at the noisome smell of mortifying flesh that came from the wound, began examining that dreadful place. [2]
- The road wound upwards, by the valley of a brook, through the hills, now wooded, now spread with pastures that shone golden green in the evening light, the herds gathering at the gate-bars. [9]
- I then wound up with these remarks: "The war with the English nation, as a nation, is at an end. [5]
- A hillsman bound up the wound, and he rode on to the Tomb. [11]
- It was not until then that she guessed at the depth of his wound, and knew that it was unhealed. [9]
- The thread was twined; its parting meshes through From hand to hand her restless shuttle flew, Till the full web was wound upon the beam, Love's curious toil,--a vest without a seam! [6]
- It was a twenty-mile drive, and the last eight miles wound down the boiling Washita, still high with the melting snows of the pine lands. [9]
- A wide, white trail wound away down the slope. [13]
- Now and then, too, a ribald jest came from some young roisterer near, and the fact that I stood alone among sneering enemies wound me up to a point where pride was more active than aught else. [11]
- The baker was too late, however, for the very next day the Notary was brought home with a nasty gunshot wound in his leg. [11]
- Then he set to work to bandage anew the wound, from which Pierre himself had not unskilfully extracted the bullet. [11]
- As he began to wash the blood stains from her breast and carefully rebandage the wound, he was vaguely conscious of a strange, grave happiness in the thought that she might live. [13]
- Joan rode straight to the fosse where she had received her wound, and standing there in the rain of bolts and arrows, she ordered the Paladin to let her long standard blow free, and to note when its fringes should touch the fortress. [5]
- He was ready to tear the bandage from his wound, if he were refused the woman whom he loved. [10]
- Then he began to talk in his quiet way about hunting and fishing; about stalking in the Highlands and tiger-hunting in India; and wound up with some wonderful stuff about moose-hunting, the sport of Canada. [11]
- When Orion came to see her she would stroke his waving hair and, as she desired not to wound him and make him even more unhappy than he must be already, she neither blamed nor admonished him, and never reminded him of his father's curse. [10]
- Injun Joe helped to raise the body of the murdered man and put it in a wagon for removal; and it was whispered through the shuddering crowd that the wound bled a little! [5]
- I got angrily to my feet, but as I did so I shrank a little, for at times the wound in my side, not yet entirely healed, hurt me. [11]
- When he came to himself the splintered portions of his thighbone had been extracted, the torn flesh cut away, and the wound bandaged. [2]
- The executioner ascended to her side and wound chains around her slender body, and so fastened her to the stake. [5]
- I hurried back to give Farrar a hand with the ropes, and it was O'Meara who caught the one I flung ashore and wound it around a pile. [9]
- If I were to draw the arrow from your wound, you would die at once. [10]
- The wound is to come, and come to-morrow. [5]
- From time to time we wound through the cobble-stoned streets of historic villages, each having its stone church end the bodki-shaped steeple of blue slate so characteristic of that country. [9]
- Perhaps at another time Denisov would not have left the regiment for so slight a wound, but now he took advantage of it to excuse himself from appearing at the staff and went into hospital. [2]
- That wound (which Tikhon treated only with internal and external applications of vodka) was the subject of the liveliest jokes by the whole detachment--jokes in which Tikhon readily joined. [2]
- A carriage-road wound through the grounds and up the hill. [5]
- The path wound through a jungle of waving sunflowers and led into the shade in front of the house. [9]
- The jury finally threw themselves back upon the indisputable fact that Selby was dead, that either wound would have killed him (admitted by the doctors), and rendered a verdict that he died from pistol-shot wounds inflicted by a pistol in the hands of Laura Hawkins. [5]
- Only tell her this, that I, Paulus, gave him this wound in a moment of rage, and to forgive me if she can, she and Petrus. [10]
- The composition of this ointment was complicated, in the different formulae given by different authorities; but some substances addressed to the imagination, rather than the wound or weapon, entered into all. [6]
- They said: 'Wait --the wound is too fresh, yet. [5]
- You swear that the wound is but a slight one? [10]
- His head and the wound began to ache, and he sometimes felt a slight chill. [10]
- She has been the watcher of the world, the one who looks on, and suffers, as the rest of the nations struggle for and wound her in their turn. [11]
- But to tell the truth would be to wound her father, to vex him against Eglington even as he had never yet been vexed. [11]
- Cleopatra had interrupted the torrent of his enthusiastic speech with many a question, meanwhile endeavouring to loose the veil wound about her head; but the little hands, unaccustomed to the task, failed. [10]
- Again: if under the sudden anguish of a wound the receiver of it makes a grimace, he falls some degrees in the estimation of his fellows; his corps are ashamed of him: they call him "hare foot," which is the German equivalent for chicken-hearted. [5]
- In skilful hands, the silent, bloodless noose, flying like an arrow, but not like that leaving a wound behind it,--sudden as a pistol-shot, but without the telltale explosion,--is one of the most fearful and mysterious weapons that arm the hand of man. [6]
- Violence stalked into the senate-chamber, theft and perjury wound their way into the cabinet, and, finally, openly organized conspiracy, with force and arms, made burglarious entrance into a chief stronghold of the Union. [6]
- The wound which the Seigneur got at last, meant to be mortal, was saved from that by the facility of a quick apprehension. [11]
- But Cynthia snatched the roll from his hand and wound it up with a feminine deftness. [9]
- But he possessed the power to wound her in return. [10]
- The pain of the poor man's wound increased, his fever was greater, and he was very thirsty. [10]
- Conrad went to the neat-set bowl in Fulkerson's comfortable room and washed the blood away, and kept bathing the wound with the cold water till it stopped bleeding. [8]
- They turned to the left, through tangled box that wound hither and thither, until they stopped at a stone wall bordering a tree-arched lane. [9]
- From above on the left, bisecting that amphitheater, wound the Smolensk highroad, passing through a village with a white church some five hundred paces in front of the knoll and below it. [2]
- It was not the least courageous act of his life, that, smarting under a fresh wound, tired and unhappy, he set his face immediately towards the accomplishment of fresh literary labor. [6]
- You can't put the knife in and turn it round, and then draw it out and put salve on the wound and say everything's all right. [11]
- When they started, the ice had not yet all left the Ottawa River, and they wound their way through crowding floes, or portaged here and there for miles, the eager sun of spring above with scarcely a cloud to trail behind him. [11]
- A scar on the head from a wound received four years ago, and yet distinctly visible in the moonlight! [10]
- A third in the group was a business man from the Middle West who had wound up his affairs and left a startled family in charge of a trust company. [9]
- By impetus gained, the French army was still able to roll forward to Moscow, but there, without further effort on the part of the Russians, it had to perish, bleeding from the mortal wound it had received at Borodino. [2]
- He rode along the edge of the stream which wound toward the western end of the slowly looming mounds of stone. [13]
- The prophet had the deep wound, inflicted on the lad by a falling stone, washed at the well and, after it had been bandaged, summoned him to his own litter, which was protected from the sun. [10]
- The legend of the Count Mirtemberg, who discovered its healing powers by seeing a wild boar go down to the warm spring to wash its wound, has been rendered familiar by Uhland to every German. [10]
- Then she grasped the circle of emeralds, about which the enchanter had wound her golden hair, and waving it high in the air, cried: "Falcon, return to the shape you were before. [10]
- We had pitched the camp before Kadesh, and there was very little for me to do, as Rameses was still laid up with his wound, so I often passed my time in hunting on the shores of the lake. [10]
- Then they take the bodies and wound them round some casks in a great hole, and cover it all up. [11]
- The islands multiplied; the boat wound in and out among them in narrow straits. [4]
- The mention of the blood money which Herr Ernst Ortlieb owed the slandering tailor, who had not yet recovered from his wound, induced the Emperor to look at the father of the beautiful sisters. [10]
- Then he washed the blood from her breast, bathed the wound, and left it unbandaged, open to the air. [13]
- It was Voban the barber, who had shaved me every day for months when I first came, while my arm was stiff from a wound got fighting the French on the Ohio. [11]
- Oh, oh!--the arrow--draw the arrow from the wound. [10]
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