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Updated: June 20, 2025
These things inflicted fearful gashes, and, in many cases, a mere flesh-wound turned out a death-stroke. Few that got hurt in our own troop lived to tell the tale.”
Harold, although faint with loss of blood, which oozed from a flesh-wound in his shoulder, was among the gallant few who strove to stem the ebbing current; struck at last by a spent ball in the temple, he fell senseless to the ground.
A headquarters surgeon said, "We thought you were killed. Can you walk?" "No hit in both arms why the deuce can't I walk?" "Shock, I suppose." A half hour later he was in a hospital tent and a grim old army surgeon handling his arms. "Right arm flesh-wound left elbow smashed. You will likely have to lose the arm." "No, I won't," said Penhallow, "I'd as leave die." "Don't talk nonsense.
Eliza, George and Jim, bestowed themselves, as well as they could, in the remaining space and the whole party set forward. "What do you think of him?" said George, who sat by Phineas in front. "Well it's only a pretty deep flesh-wound; but, then, tumbling and scratching down that place didn't help him much.
Halding, with a vicious fist-lunge, sent the pup to the floor of the car in a crumpled heap, but not before the curving white eyeteeth had slashed the side of the man's throat in an ugly flesh-wound that drove its way dangerously close to the jugular.
'He was hurt then, I knew it' he thought 'who's attending him and why is he out and was it a flesh-wound or where was it? all these questions silently, but vehemently, solicited an answer and he repeated the last aloud, in a careless sort of way. 'And a Lieutenant Puddock, you were saying a tell me now where was it? 'In the park, general, said Puddock, in perfect good faith.
The hunter's rifle cracked, the Bear snorted, wheeled into the bushes, and, crashing away, was gone. That was Jack's baptism of fire, for the rifle had cut a deep flesh-wound in his back. Snorting with pain and rage, he tore through the bushes and traveled on for an hour or more, then lay down and tried to lick the wound, but it was beyond reach. He could only rub it against a log.
An examination discovered a painful flesh-wound the minnie ball having glanced from the shoulder and passed out through the upper part of the arm. In removing the coat to dress the wound, the doctor exclaimed "Here is a bullet-hole in the breast, which must have just missed your heart! Was it a spent ball?"
He had smitten three of them senseless, for the power of his arm was terrible; whereupon the last man tried to ward his blow with a pistol. Carver, sir, it was, our brave and noble Carver, who saved the lives of his brethren and his own; and glad enow they were to escape. Notwithstanding, we hoped it might be only a flesh-wound, and not to speed him in his sins."
Philip himself was cheery; he said the bullet had made a mere flesh-wound, and had passed out on the other side, and the Lady of Hope, as they called he, was just such another as Aunt Cecily, and had made him very comfortable, with clean linen, good cool drinks, and the tenderest hand.
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