Use wounds in a sentence
Sentences starting with wounds
- Wounds and fatal blows had often been given when an offended man revenged himself on his enemy, or a dishonest one seized the property of others or denied the obligations he had sworn to fulfil. [10]
Sentences ending with wounds
- You make new wounds. [11]
- She had remained with him for hours, leaving her place at his side merely to give him his medicine, or, with her mother's aid, place poultices on his wounds. [10]
- He kept close watch over her, and at the least indication of restlessness, that he knew led to tossing and rolling of the body, he held her tightly, so no violent move could reopen her wounds. [13]
- What he feared was to reopen one of her wounds. [13]
- The Emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of the officers as he went: "Have these gentlemen attended to and taken to my bivouac; let my doctor, Larrey, examine their wounds. [2]
- Tears, genuine, honest, unaffected tears filled her eyes as she went on: "Here I he, a poor sickly woman, sensitive in body and in soul as if I were covered with wounds. [10]
- This blade is too good to deal the death-blow to the body which is already bleeding from a thousand wounds. [10]
- Reeder was taken to the Virginia City Hotel, and doctors called in to examine his wounds. [5]
- Three different surgeons, the one just mentioned and two who saw the wounded of Big Bethel, assured me that they found no sabre-cuts or bayonet wounds. [3]
- When she learns that he, the son of Caesar, has given his young heart to the cast-off wife of a street orator, a woman whose home attracted men as ripe dates lure birds, it will be--I know--like rubbing salt into her fresh wounds. [10]
Short sentences using wounds
- If the wounds had reopened! [13]
Sentences containing wounds two or more times
- Fournel could only think of how to save his life, and to do that he must become the aggressor, for his wounds were bleeding hard, and he must have more wounds, if the fight went on without harm to the Seigneur. [11]
- So the hermit searched all his wounds and gave him good salves; so the king was there three days, and then were his wounds well amended that he might ride and go, and so departed. [5]
- Eyes of morbid curiosity were looking at the open wounds of his heart-ragged wounds made by the shrapnel of tragedy and treachery, not the clean wounds got in a fair fight, easily healed. [11]
- There was not a piece of sound skin the size of a dollar on the whole body; wounds, scars, bruises, discolored extravasated blood, everywhere--even on the soles of the feet there were wounds. [5]
More example sentences with the word wounds in them
- Make the Mohar your ally, and it may easily happen that your rat-bites may be paid for with mortal wounds, and Rameses who, if you marched against him openly, might blow you to the ground, may be hit by a lance thrown from an ambush. [10]
- In the battle you are alone, but the hand to heal the wounds may be another's. [11]
- If they have wounds, we will make them heal; if their heads are turned, we will screw them the right way round; if their souls are dark, we will light up a flame in them. [10]
- Charley examined his wounds, and, finding them severe, advised that the Cure be sent for, while he and Jo Portugais set about restoring him to consciousness. [11]
- One of his wounds was considered quite dangerous, and it was thought by many that it would prove fatal. [5]
- Many of the wounds had not been tended since they were dressed on the field weeks before. [9]
- Hanno says the wounds are not at all dangerous. [10]
- Thrice was I wounded, but my wounds are no deeper than the scratches of a tiger's cub. [11]
- At that time Wolff had but recently recovered from the severe wounds with which he had returned from the campaign. [10]
- Worse than the wolf that licked the hand of the man who bandaged its wounds, he would have shown his teeth to the preserver of his life. [10]
- She had submitted with a bleeding heart and, to place him in the path of fortune, had inflicted the deepest wounds upon her own soul. [10]
- A young surgeon who was at Sudley Church, laboring among the wounded of Bull Run, tells me they had nothing but water for dressing, and he (being also doux de sel) was astonished to see how well the wounds did under that simple treatment. [3]
- After that, the White Corps student gave many severe wounds, but got none of the consequence in return. [5]
- Doubtless the wounds which he had received still ached, yet his sorrowful experiences did not prevent his being an attentive observer. [10]
- In the battle which he had commenced he must not shrink from wounds, and he was struck by many a poisoned shaft. [10]
- Reeder--or at least what was left of him--survived his wounds two days! [5]
- Don Miguel's breast was already bleeding from two wounds, and he now fell by Ulrich's side; a bullet had broken his left arm. [10]
- 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]
- Since I grew up I have attended to our sick, and I cannot tell you how many fractures, wounds, hurts, and fevers I have cured or seen progress to a fatal end. [10]
- Her heart bled unseen, and his misfortune inflicted new wounds upon it. [10]
- But being considerably under the influence of liquor, Reeder did not feel his wounds as he otherwise would, and he got up and went into the street. [5]
- He went down under the hoofs of the enraged animal, as his huge boar- hound, always with him, fastened on the moose's throat, dragged him to the ground, and tore gaping wounds in his neck. [11]
- He had got two ugly wounds and was bleeding heavily, but his heart still beat. [11]
- I had received two slight wounds, and I had not touched my enemy. [11]
- To confess the truth I was quite as eager to see and treat fractures and wounds and injuries in great numbers, as I was to exercise benevolence. [10]
- All who could travel on foot,--multitudes with slight wounds of the upper limbs, the head, or face,--were told to take up their beds,--alight burden or none at all,--and walk. [6]
- But the thorns tore my tender flesh, and I bear to this day marks of the deep wounds they inflicted. [6]
- When Hannah went to lay fresh handkerchiefs on Selene's wounds she saw that she had been crying, but she did not enquire into the reason of her tears. [10]
- I was near to forgetting the use of words, until at length, one rare morning when the sun poured in, the jolly doctor dressed my wounds with more despatch than common, and vouchsafed that I might talk awhile that day. [9]
- But after a time consciousness returned; the wounds, though painful, were none of them dangerous, and the most alarming effects of the accident passed away. [6]
- 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]
- Like all wounds, those inflicted by the arrows of Eros heal more slowly when youth lies behind the stricken one. [10]
- Under the gun there was some shade, for she threw over it a piece of tarpaulin and some ragged, blood-stained jackets lying near--jackets of men whose wounds their comrades had tried hastily to help when the scythe of war cut them down. [11]
- I hurried to them, and found one dead, and the other dying, and dagger wounds in both, for the assault had been at such close quarters that the horseman had had no chance to use a pistol. [11]
- They carefully guarded their open wounds from any rough and painful contact. [2]
- The traveller examined the wounds in the shoulder and the head, and said: "The head is all right. [11]
- But were I the widow of a noble Aurelian and your mother--" Here Apollinaris, whose wounds were beginning to burn again, broke in: "She would have counseled us to leave revenge to the gods. [10]
- Emerson shows up the weakness of his young enthusiasts with that delicate wit which warns its objects rather than wounds them. [6]
- He only acknowledged the shots by a salaam-like movement of his trunk, with the point of which he gently touched the wounds with a striking and peculiar action. [5]
- Women also had the right to enter the hospital to be cured of the wounds inflicted by the scourge or the iron of the executioner. [10]
- His balm for the healing of the nation's wounds was a patent medicine so cleverly concocted that experts alone could show what was in it. [9]
- He reflected on the fact that clean wounds closed quickly in the healing upland air. [13]
- The warmth of the dry hay was comforting, and after caring for my wounds, which I found were but scratches, I had somewhat to eat from my knapsack, drank up two eggs, and then coiled myself for sleep. [11]
- As some of the balls struck the cask, the wounds in Reeder's leg were probably from these, glancing downwards, though they might have been caused by the second shot fired. [5]
- The messenger replied that on his way he had bandaged the wounds of a severely injured man with the upper part of his apron, and the chamberlain instantly went to his baggage and gave him a piece of finely plaited linen. [10]
- Dr. Golightly suggested that in his opinion death ensued from a complication of the two wounds and perhaps other causes. [5]
- Therefore it follows that I am accustomed to severe wounds, though my heart often aches at the sight of them. [10]
- If we each take calmly whatever befalls us our masters try to heal our wounds, but if we resist may the gods have mercy on us! [10]
- Ruth assisted the surgeon with the utmost coolness and with skillful hands helped to dress Philip's wounds. [5]
- How do you suppose the other Apostles felt when that experimental philosopher explored the wounds of the Being who to them was divine with his inquisitive forefinger? [6]
- Other aid was summoned, but the wounds were mortal, and Col Selby expired in an hour, in pain, but his mind was clear to the last and he made a full deposition. [5]
- Epileptics used to suck the blood from the wounds of dying gladiators. [3]
- The fact that such wounds are attended with peculiar risk has been long noticed. [3]
- But Berenike had still to wash and bandage the wounds of her patient--a task which she always performed herself and with the greatest care; she therefore promised the soldier to be at his disposal in half an hour. [10]
- I have not spoken at all of my wounds, though they gave me many painful hours, and I had no attendance but my own and Gabord's. [11]
- Castine was mixing some tar and oil in a pan by the fire, to apply to the still bleeding wounds of his Michael. [11]
- They perhaps will some day wear out, but the wounds that my spirit received in those hours have not yet ceased to bleed. [10]
- Maker of the soft night, bind my wounds with sleep, lest I cry out and be a coward and unworthy. [11]
- I like to smoke a good deal, but it wounds my sensibilities to see one of these stub-hunters watching me out of the corners of his hungry eyes and calculating how long my cigar will be likely to last. [5]
- He could not sleep that night for fear his patients who had not been scalded with the boiling oil would be poisoned by the gunpowder conveyed into their wounds by the balls. [3]
- In battle, in slaughter, when his wounds burned, in plundering, at the gaming-table, everywhere he called upon the Holy Virgin, and also, but very rarely, on the "word," fame. [10]
- Her arms, her shoulders, her feet were bare; all that she could spare from her body had gone to bind the wounds of her desperate comrades. [11]
- You see I should like to have a perfect soldier credited to dear old Illinois--no broken bones, scalp wounds, etc. [7]
- Never more, and she swore it by the Saviour's wounds with the crucifix in her hand, should his parents' doors be opened to him unless he gave up the coppersmith's daughter and besought his mother's pardon. [10]
- Who better than she knew the whole art and secret of healing the wounds of a hound's making? [10]
- The young men she found lying within short distances of each other, dead, and covered with wounds. [5]
- It was a scene where dread and horror reigned; for all save himself who lingered there were held by death or severe wounds. [10]
- For a despotic ruler is like a fiery steed; the latter endeavors to kick him who touches his wounds with intent to heal; the former punishes him who lays a hand on the weak or failing points of his diseased mind. [10]
- There was no reproach in the strong, clear eyes of blue which even wounds and illness had not faced--only humour, only a hovering joy, only a good-fellowship, and the look of home. [11]
- His wounds are repaired by the same process of healing; and the stumps left after the amputation of his limbs, especially during an early embryonic period, occasionally possess some power of regeneration, as in the lowest animals. [1]
- In the meantime Reeder had been taken into the office of Dr. Owens, where his wounds were properly dressed. [5]
- All three had received slight wounds, but the blood-letting did them all good. [11]
- One began to realize that by these wounds it had achieved a dignity that transcended the mediocre imagination of its provincial designer. [9]
- We must fight our battles alone, but we don't have to bear the wounds alone. [11]
- Your wounds are on your right side. [13]
- How often the old wounds caused him pain! [10]
- The rear portion of the tower has not been neglected, either, but is clothed with a clinging garment of polished ivy which hides the wounds and stains of time. [5]
- From the wounds of the crown of thorns; from the pierced side; from the mutilated hands and feet; from the scourged body--from every hand-breadth of his person streams of blood were flowing! [5]
- When two opponents of such different calibre meet, there is a great clatter of arms but no bloody wounds are dealt and neither rout nor victory can result. [10]
- He recalled instances of riders who had been cut and shot apparently to fatal issues; yet the blood had clotted, the wounds closed, and they had recovered. [13]
- There were wounds of all degrees of severity, but I heard no groans or murmurs. [6]
- Her last cry of agony pierced the wounds of the mutilated man like a sharp lance-thrust. [10]
- As the wounds of a murdered man are said to bleed afresh when the murderer approaches, Caracalla's irritable soul was wont to break out in a frenzy of rage when any one was so rash as to allude to this, his foulest crime. [10]
- He did not observe Caesar at first, for after his bath his wounds were burning and he was rubbing his back against the rough stone of a pillar. [10]
- There was shade now, but there was not safety, for the ground was spurting dust where bullets struck, and even bodies of dead men were dishonoured by the insult of new wounds and mutilations. [11]
- Baron Franz was now become chamberlain to the emperor and, albeit cured indeed of his wounds, was plagued by a bad cough. [10]
- His wounds were not dressed till he got to Memphis, 15 hours after the explosion. [5]
- They must use neither dagger nor lance, but they will easily achieve their end with slings and hooks and poisoned needles, which leave wounds that resemble the sting of an adder. [10]
- She had nursed Myrtilus with tireless solicitude, and also often cared for his, Bias's, wounds. [10]
- I have healed my own wounds, and I wear my scars without--" He stopped, for there came a sharp rat-tat-tat at the door which opened into the street. [11]
- This wounds me more than any number of injurious and unkind speeches could do. [5]
- There were three minute and different statements from the doctors about the wounds, so technically worded that nobody could understand them. [5]
- Perhaps the old merchant's stalwart headman had died of his wounds, and his father wished to send him--Orion--across the Nile to the Arab viceroy to obtain forgiveness for the murder of a Moslem, actually within the precincts of the governor's house. [10]
- When the two men got to the spot they found Pourcette binding up his wounds. [11]
- Kings have short memories; how often did your father hazard his life for him, how many wounds had he received in his service. [10]
- Archibius was to meet him at the house of Arius, who was still suffering from the wounds inflicted by the chariot-wheels of Antyllus, and Berenike had accompanied Timagenes to her brother. [10]
- Whereupon he left me, the heavy door clanging to, the bolts were shot, and I was alone in darkness with my wounds and misery. [11]
- And they gave me no end of points about how to scout for giants, and how to scoop them in; and they told me all sorts of charms against enchantments, and gave me salves and other rubbish to put on my wounds. [5]
- How often this man lead inflicted bleeding wounds upon her heart! [10]
- Neither man had made any show of caring for their wounds. [11]
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