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The gash his terrible foot had made extended from the front of the breast down to the inside of the flank; and it was far from being simply a skin wound. Down the chest it had reached the bone; in the belly it had carved a furrow which suggested the wound of an axe. Bill sighed as he told himself that poor Jess's chances were problematical.
At that moment she knew beyond doubt that he had come early on purpose to find her alone and to make her an offer. And only then for the first time the whole thing presented itself in a new, different aspect; only then she realized that the question did not affect her only with whom she would be happy, and whom she loved but that she would have that moment to wound a man whom she liked.
'I'll never do anything, father, you ask me not to do. 'I shall be able to sweep out all those you don't like. There are too many men hanging about here? 'Tell me, father, do you like Lord Chadwick? The Major's face changed expression. 'Have I said anything to wound you? she said, pressing his hand. 'No, dear. You asked me if I liked Lord Chadwick. I was thinking.
They all descended on the other side of the mountains, and wound away through broad plains and by populous cities.
At last the enemy retired. I looked for my father, and found him expiring; as before, he had received a wound on the wrong side, a spear having transfixed him between the shoulders. "Tell how I died like a brave man," said he, "and tell your mother that I am gone to Paradise."
"Wound your HEAD too tight, Uncle Jed?" she cried. "Ye-es, yes. I was kind of extra absent-minded yesterday and I thought I wound the clock, but I couldn't have done that 'cause the clock's stopped. Yet I know I wound somethin' and it's just as liable to have been my head as anything else. You listen just back of my starboard ear there and see if I'm tickin' reg'lar."
Corydon was ashamed of this primitive self she was always repudiating it, always shutting her eyes to it. There was no way to wound her so deeply as to posit its reality and identify it with her. She was always fighting to make her temperament like Thyrsis'; she despised her own temperament utterly, and set up his qualities as her ideal.
I am bound this night to see the outside of the Hidden House, and the window of the haunted chamber at the very least!" said Cap, throwing her eyes up defiantly toward the darkening sky, and putting whip to her unwilling horse. As the path wound down into the valley the woods were found deeper, thicker and darker.
He likes to wound a woman's feelings he do, and to chuck anything in her face, he do he likes to wind a woman up and to wound her down." Why, he told me to my face that I was a-getting old; old indeed! there's not a woman in London knows my age except Mrs Davis down in the Old Kent Road, and beyond a haricot vein in one of my legs I'm as young as ever I was. Old indeed!
"Sir," saith Lancelot, "I saw him not long time sithence in the house of King Hermit, his uncle." "Sir," saith the King, "They tell me he is a right good knight?" "Sir," saith Lancelot, "He is the best knight of the world. I myself have felt the goodness of his knighthood and his valour, for right sorely did he wound me or ever I knew him or he me." "And what is your name?" saith the King.
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