struken

Updated: May 17, 2025

His thigh had been broken, "dung in two," by the explosion of the gun, "by which he was struken to the ground, and died hastilie thereafter," with no time to say more than to order silence, lest the army should be discouraged and the siege prove in vain.

Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant - Royal Edinburgh: Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets