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Examples
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She would regret it forever but knew the choice she made would leave her with the least painful long-term wounds.
Soldiers Live Cook, Glen 2000
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What the child couldn't know is how, sometimes, there are wounds within wounds.
All things reconsidered: NPR's Michele Norris tells her family's complete story David Montgomery 2010
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By deliberately applying radium barium bromide to his arm, Bequerel confirmed Otto Walkhoff's observation that radium causes skin wounds.
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Handril knew little of khas, but he knew enough to understand that the white champion in his hand should not be slumped against his horse™s neck, his back raked with tiny sword wounds.
Chosen Of The Gods Pierson, Chris 2001
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For centuries, an ancient continent has bled from many gaping sword wounds.
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For centuries, an ancient continent has bled from many gaping sword wounds.
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English sentries, one receiving nine and the other sixteen sword wounds.
Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Vainly did the king offer resistance, though unarmed; the foe were too numerous, and they stretched him dead, pierced with sixteen sword wounds.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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The Knights 'Water Woundwort (_Statiotes aloides_) was supposed from its blade-like leaves, acting on the doctrine of signatures, to heal sword wounds.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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The bird drew near and examining it, found that it was the dead body of a man and saw in it spear and sword wounds.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879
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