breast-wound

Updated: May 16, 2025

"Yea," replied Ebbo, "he is at Adlerstein now, Heinrich Bauermann, called the Schneiderlein, a lanzknecht, who alone escaped the slaughter, and from whom we have often heard how my father died, choked in his own blood, from a deep breast-wound, immediately after he had sent home his last greetings to my lady mother." "Was the corpse restored?" asked the able Rathsherr Ulrich. "No," said Ebbo.

Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Dove in the Eagle's Nest