To everyone’s surprise, a tightly wound plastic bag fell halfway out of his sock. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

One structure, rejected at first as a “monstrosity,” became the fair’s emblem, a machine so huge and terrifying that it instantly eclipsed the tower of Alexandre Eiffel that had so wounded America’s pride. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I uncurl her hand, which opens the wound, but I got to see how deep. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Tison's trial in connection with the January shooting that left one teenager dead and another wounded is set to begin approximately five weeks from today. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Slowly and carefully he rolled about in the thick mud until it formed a poultice, cooling the wounds in his leg and neck, preventing further blood loss. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Behind him, Lyra turned the meat over on the fire, and Will looked at his wounds, to see how they were healing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There had been a fight The Queen’s knights had defended her as best they could with swords and falchions, until they were all wounded, six of them seriously. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now he was alone and wounded, dying maybe, and...she had to get to him. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He was staring down at the cement patio, and when he turned to me, his eyes had a wounded look, like a dog who’s been kicked. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But publicity generated by the case alerted the world’s reinsurance industry to avoid North Korea, and fraud wound down. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

This entire camp is a giant open wound. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Uriah and I were hauling wounded Erudite up to the fourth floor all morning.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Salt in wounds, salt water in wounds, was supposed to help them heal. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he did not answer, she seized Grimtongue’s spear and turned it, and the northman cried out in anguish as more blood gushed from his wound. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wound Mom’s scarf around my ears, turned north, and started walking up the hill to Annemarie’s. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Doctors hoped it was within reach of the entry wound and could be easily pulled out with their instruments. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But when they touched him, he reared back like a wounded beast, and with a spurt of energy struck away their hands. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Once we caught a wounded blackbird by throwing a blanket over it and figured we could make a blackbird pie, like in the nursery rhyme. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Boots was sick, his dad was incoherent, Luxa was in shock, Aurora was wounded, and Ares was in despair. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He even went on the giant water slide, and wound up trying it over and over again. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Blood trickled from the arrow wound in his flank. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

For Caesar, this is a natural place to segue into all the ways we did get hurt in the arena, from burns, to stings, to wounds. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I do not jest,” he said with a wounded look. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know whether the wound to the head preceded death or not? Is that what you’re saying, Horace?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Now you must address your own wounds,” Aurora said. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As they wound on through the forest, Hannah guessed everybody from the shtetl was there. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he rinsed his face and inspected his wounds. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Nor would I know him if I saw him again in the kelp, for now that he had grown and his wound had healed, he looked like all the others. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But not a bad wound, surely not a bad wound. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How’s your wound healing, by the way? I wave him off. “No big deal.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It was his first misstep, but how to make him see it without wounding his fledgling confidence? A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The two surviving dogs lay licking their wounds. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She waited for the blood to coagulate, and then she pressed the Band-Aid over the cut, drawing the sides of the cut together to seal the wound. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His side was pierced by the point of a spear, which wounded him gravely. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“You have quite a wound on your leg. Lost yourself quite a lot of blood. Doctors stitched you up, though. You’ll be running around soon enough.” I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

It took hours, but finally they dragged the wounded boat ashore. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Ugwu did not look to see how deep the knife wound on his head was. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and chilled, and miserable. I feel as if I had been wound up to a certain pitch—too tight—and something inside of me had snapped.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

“Twenty-four is out of the question. The wound was fresh, Nels. Four hours—maybe, at the outside. No more than four, absolutely.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I tried to get up, but my wounded leg still felt like it was on fire. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing the boy’s multiple shrapnel wounds, the doctor leaned over him and said, “You dummy! Look at what this has gotten you!” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was wound so tight, Jam was surprised it wasn’t shaking. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A long grey road wound back out of sight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The group wound its way past ancient trees, and over rolling meadows, and through babbling streams, collecting more and more curious animals as they went. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There were two small puncture wounds on her mother’s left ankle. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The cause of death says multiple gunshot wounds to the torso. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Good decision, he told himself as he huffed up and up the track, as it wound around the mountain, as the river got farther and farther below the gray cliffs. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“The Dying Lioness” portrays a wounded beast, paralyzed by arrows. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The airplane was hit all over like a sieve, and I was wounded in the leg.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The wound on his brpast was as healed as it would ever be, the scar that covered it grey and red and hideous. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His head was on the wounded rabbi’s shoulder. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It screamed and fled into the trees like a wounded comet. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Mom refused to go to the hospital, despite the gunshot wound in her side. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I come up gasping, trying to avoid swallowing the bloodstained water that spreads out from the open wound in her neck. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He towered above all in the chamber and his beard flamed around a face so scarred with old wounds it was impossible to tell where one began and another ended. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The stairs wound down and ended at a doorway without a door. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The wounded were beginning to come back off the line. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we wound up in the doorway to an empty room. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Hatchet gritted his teeth and held his wounded arm. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

For a time it seemed the girl might be fine, but eventually her wounds became worse, and she died, just nine years old. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

When she raised it, his white night-robe was stained with blood where her lips had touched, and where the thin open wound in her neck had sent forth drops. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

When the wound did heal, it left a long and crinkled scar, and while most scar tissue is lighter than the surrounding skin, Charles’ scar turned dark brown. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“His wounds will kill him first,” I said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You wound me, wandering off like this. Have you grown tired of my hospitality so soon?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I groped my head with both hands, looking for a head wound I desperately hoped would not be there. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the thing is, I was having those seizures because I already had brain damage, so I was reopening wounds each time I seized. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

More and more stories of Shiloh came through to the county as Illinois boys who had been wounded in the battle began pouring into Cairo, Illinois, during the months of May and June. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before, I had held something back so that when they discarded me, I would not be so wounded. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But he rolled so enthusiastically that the wounds reopened: when he got to his feet again his white coat was stained with blood. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled the needle out, and a lot of blood squirted out of the puncture wound. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A combat wound, well healed, such as a leg blown off by cannon fire, would become new, open, horrible, even after decades of healing. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He did not move while I did this, nor afterwards as I cleaned the wound with a peeled stick from a coral bush. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bailey stood speechless, his mouth an open wound. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, they could be dangerous, especially if wounded or angered. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Jon had sent ten of the Mole’s Town wildlings to each of them: green boys, old men, some wounded and infirm, but all capable of doing work of one sort or another. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had not seen the Bainsizza before and it was strange to go up the slope where the Austrians had been, beyond the place on the river where I had been wounded. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He checked the time on the glass clocks against the time on his uncle’s railroad watch, which he kept with his tools and wound diligendy every morning. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“My father had a saying too. Never wound a foe when you can kill him. Dead men don’t claim vengeance.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Who the hell knows what he meant, but suddenly, he seemed kind of powerful, like someone who shouldn’t necessarily be wound up in a cocoon of pink insulation and hidden in a basement somewhere. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three strings that joined them wound them ever nearer. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When germs were kept away from wounds, he wrote, pus didn't form. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

On July 21, the day after the doctors’ positive bulletin, they discovered cotton and wool fibers mixed with the pus coming from the wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

My wound went deep; I felt that I had been slapped out of the human race. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother looked at her for a little while longer before she stood up and said, “Good night, my daughter,” in a voice that was small and wounded. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That Lucas had been wounded pretty bad, but was mostly okay now. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As the moon rose, the witches began their spell to heal Will’s wound. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stares at me for a few seconds and then throws his arms around me, his hand pressing to the wound in my shoulder. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

So far there have been two hundred dead and countless wounded; the hospitals are bursting at the seams. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

After the circumcision, when their wounds are still fresh, warriors are required to practice their life skills using these arrows. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to pull the rags of his shirt over the wounds without looking at them. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In my inspections I had overlooked the wound. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its coolness soothed the throb, and its wetness loosened the cloth’s grip on the wound. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Then, another idea suddenly hits me: that I am searching out the raw spots in him, the places where he appears open, where the wounds are still fresh. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The toys wound up with a bronze key and waddled on stiff legs, tin ears flapping. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Sheryl gives me a smile, but the kind she uses for poor, wounded animals at the Humane Society. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the wound, though it hurt at every step, and it wasn’t the dive-bombers circling over the beach some miles to the north. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It looked as if the president was mortally wounded. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Why did I have to give myself a constant, gaping open wound on, of all places, my finger? Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

His head twisted involuntarily as his vertebrae slid into their niches, and strength returned in a rush as magic reproduced the three liters of blood lost through his chest wound. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

As they wound their slow way down twisty Shadow- black Lane to the foot of Aegon's High Hill, lyrion reflected on the events of the morning. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At first I thought she must be screaming over Chi-Boy’s wound, but then I followed her stare. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Sefia fell to her knees and pressed her hands to his wound. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His one remaining back leg jacked him up, and Runt rolled onto his wounded haunch with a yelp of pain. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The blood gurgled out of the wound it made and sprayed along the concave metallic surface. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Healers learned the intricate work of healing wounds, while Heartrenders became soldiers—experts at doing damage, not undoing it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Such a dream he had not dreamed since the healing of the wounds the thing had given him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

A spiral stairway wound around the exterior, mounting to the summit where an inner sanctuary contained an elaborately adorned couch and gold table. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

Small fires blazed as terrified people ran, leaving wounded or dead people behind them. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Flies and fine white gnats swarmed about his wound. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

That, Alice told me about later—how he demanded that everything used on me be clean, how he insisted on the deep ugly wound in my side—the scratch—being carefully cleaned and bandaged. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Pushing Harry roughly aside, he knelt over Malfoy, drew his wand, and traced it over the deep wounds Harry’s curse had made, muttering an incantation that sounded almost like song. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“The wounds of these men are fresh and untended. Someone shall answer for this neglect!” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the wounded man began to struggle to his feet, and saluted. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cupid was healed of his wound by now and longing for Psyche. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A broad, slow-moving river wound through rich grassland in the middle distance, and at the foot of the long slope, among copses of small trees and rows of vegetables, stood a village of thatched houses. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

‘What do you mean, the wound touches his soul?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Nell wound her legs tightly around my waist and bit the man’s hand. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He weighed them, and the heart, and he photographed the wounds. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And step by wounded step, Runt closed the distance until he flopped down by the riverbank and stretched his neck out to lap at the cool water. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I used the water from Chencho’s abandoned canteen to clean Pita’s wound. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Almost 53,500 of their comrades had been killed in action, more than 63,100 of them had died from disease and other causes, and some 205,000 had been wounded. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

When Serafina looked at it, she put more herbs on the wound, and tied the silk tighter than ever, but this time her face was troubled. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they scurried around like little sugar ants, busy hormiguitas, gathering the materials to create a sturdy device in which to carry our wounded sister, because her leg hurt so much that she couldn’t walk. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

They were all fed generously once again, and more salve was applied to their wounds. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We aren’t Messengers yet, so hold your horses,” said Sticky, who was still trying to recover from his wounded feelings and felt a bit testy. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The African general and the Gallivespian came in: King Ogunwe in a clean uniform, with a wound on his temple freshly dressed, and Lord Roke gliding swiftly to the table astride his blue hawk. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Tony’s inside wounds are the ones that will be harder to heal,” Mama was saying. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Well, it was a rotten way to be wounded and flying on a joke front like the Italian. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I needed the wound to set first,” she says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even wound properly, the tokar required its wearer to hold it in place with the left hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was surreal being back at camp, because everything looked so peaceful: no burning buildings, no wounded fighters. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Nailer paused in the climb, rotating his shoulder carefully, feeling the sear of his wound across his back. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It crossed the wash and wound its way up the slope, disappearing into the grass. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, a cry rose in the wagon, the cry of a wounded animal. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he crossed the state line into Mississippi, a white man hidden in a clump of bushes shot Meredith from behind with a shotgun, seriously wounding him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She ran back to the wounded girl who’d stolen her armor. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Lyddie,” Diana was saying softly, “Dr. Craven needs to look at the wound.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Or maybe she’s badly wounded, and she crawled away to die.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I looked at the rows of tilled-up soil splayed out like open wounds and did as I was told. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now in Odysseus’ hall untended still our bodies lie, unknown to friends or kinsmen who should have laid us out and washed our wounds free of the clotted blood, and mourned our passing. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I winced as he dressed the wound, but the ambrosia square helped. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Taylor wound up calling my friend SJ's mom, Mrs. Friedman—an attorney—and she had to come bark a bunch of legal hoo-ha in the cops' faces before they'd undo the cuffs. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I'm seized with terror, weak from my head wound, shaking. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Dr. Cable’s pendant seemed to grow heavier and heavier, wound around her neck as tightly as the vines, brush, and roots grasping the railroad tracks. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But later, after my mother lost her faith in God, that leatherette Bible wound up wedged under a too-short table leg, a way for her to correct the imbalances of life. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When at last the wound was cleaned and stitched, Matt was set free. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need to clean the wound and bind it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"Be still now, I must wash out the wound." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

That was the fight Montez had been wounded in. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The knowledge is more painful than my wounds, for if I die, Darin dies. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The cafeteria wasn't exactly the most sanitary place to reopen that wound. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Add to the cynicism of a man wounded in war the inevitable cynicism of growing older and the professional cynicism of the journalist. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Moaning like a wounded animal, I let the gun fall from my hands and wrap my arms around my stomach. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed Otto’s arm and whirled him to my front, holding him in the air and checking for wounds. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Pain hits me in waves, this time from the wounds that must cover me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

By the end of Sunday night, two were dead and forty-six were wounded. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was a feeble sort of evasion, a sad rag wrapped around his wounded word. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lister recommended that doctors put a diluted carbolic acid solution on wounds after injury or surgery and also soak bandages and dressings in the chemical. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Blood dripped from his wounds and fell on the white oak leaves. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only two wounded in this boat, for both were officers. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they landed, it quickly became clear the infantry were too busy just trying to survive to bring the wounded man to the helicopter. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The feverish courage which had brought him from Efrafa to the river had gone and his wounded shoulder had begun to hurt badly. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As she helped me to a sitting position and wound linen around me, I wondered if all Arwyl’s students were as well-trained as this one. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looked down incredulously at his wounded legs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“It s a grievous wound. Someone tended it, stitched it up. There are the marks.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The cold and wet had made his wound more painful than ever, and the ache and sense of deadly chill took away all sleep. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She knelt on one knee, her bound wounds protesting as she cupped their heads and stroked their smooth hair. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“You are in the infirmary at Redwall Abbey. As yet I do not know the full extent of your injuries. When you have rested, my friends will cleanse you and dress your wounds.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It feels to Marie-Laure as if they have wound these past four days toward the center of a bewildering maze, and now they are tiptoeing past the pickets of some final interior cell. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Edward’s arms wound around me as the next song started. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There they distilled a homemade brandy that was used as a drink, to light the stove, to disinfect wounds, and to kill cockroaches; they pompously called it “vodka.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he looked more closely, it was plain that many of them were wounded. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Piper tended to Jason’s wounds, but he wasn’t as badly hurt as he looked. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had dabbed her wounds with Myrish fire, which burned so bad she had had to bite her lip to keep from screaming. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That was the time Mama had shot and wounded a hog- killing bear and Papa had had to finish it off with a knife to keep it from getting her. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Yes, I am with you, Master,’ said Sam, laying Frodo’s wounded hand gently to his breast. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He hated this feeling, the feeling that all the words that he wanted to say would just tangle themselves into a giant ball, wound so tight that nothing could manage to escape. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There was something in Mrs. Bohannon’s eyes that was too raw and wounded to lie to. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I count about one hundred and thirty men, Lawrence. Forty to fifty already dead, about ninety wounded. Lot of boys walking around with minor stuff, one hundred thirty for the hospital.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granny unraveled sweaters and picked apart dresses and jackets and pants; she wound the yarn into balls and the thread onto spools, and people bought them to use in making new clothes. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I know an infected wound when I see it. It’s bad.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Men wounded in the battle kept up as best they could or were abandoned to fend for themselves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Now there was only gauze, black with congealed blood, along the length of the wound which ran from his knee to his ankle. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The doctor spotted blood seeping from an entry wound on the right side, near the waist about four inches from the backbone. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The clearing was quiet except for fires burning in the woods, and the cries of the wounded. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Bernard dropped down to floor thirty-three, hurried along the corridor, stood hesitating for a moment outside Room 3210, then, having wound himself up, opened the door and walked in. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped him back and watched the old hogs sniff his bloody wounds. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kvothe closed the window’s shutters while Chronicler removed his shirt; there were bandages stripping the backs of his arms from where he had been wounded by the scrael three nights ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His maester's collar was no simple metal choker such as Luwin wore, but two dozen heavy chains wound together into a ponderous metal necklace that covered him from throat to breast. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Horse hair is always better than thread for sewing up a wound,” she said. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The magistrate wailed as Mama pulled more plant-magic threads and more branches wound around other parts of him. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It wound out the bottom of the lake, the southern end, and headed southeast down into the lakes below and was lost, and he had not followed it except to note the name. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He dragged himself along the ivory floor, blood pumping from his wound with each fierce beat of his angry heart. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then at last he left the tent in which he had sat so long, and went down to where the Greeks were gathered, a wretched company, Diomedes grievously wounded, Odysseus, Agamemnon, and many another. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long green scarf was wound around her neck. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A few revellers had decayed bodies with grey flesh, matted clumps of hair and nasty wounds. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He led the wounded fox to a mossy circle of shade beneath a pine. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He searched the wound on Frodo’s shoulder with his fingers, and his face grew graver, as if what he learned disquieted him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She groans, clutching at a roll of gauze that is pressed to the wound in her side. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Many of them had rebelled against Adarlan—and most wound up dead. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She had been six when Mrs. Hawkins had walked out before dawn, leaving Taylor with a lingering kiss on her forehead and a wound that lasted much longer. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

In a later incident, in Osage County, a man came into a hospital bleeding profusely from a gunshot wound, moaning, “I’m going to die, I’m going to die.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The dragon coiled before her had pulled her out of the river and had brought her to his home to have her wounds bound. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

If I'm sad or ticked off or wound up about something, I usually feel better if I head for the water. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the doctors had finished looking at the wounds, I knew what they would say. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I’ll never go there,” he said when I asked, and a wound opened in my heart that I was certain would never heal. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was back in her fancy dress, and the blood trailing from the wound on her throat looked more like the vibrant, fashionable scarf Ophie had originally mistaken it for. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Lord Steward had thinned notably since suffering a head wound at the Bridge of Skulls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her wound was too fresh,'her grief too deep. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But it also it caused an ache in his heart - a ghostly pain, like an old war wound throbbing in bad weather. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be no reason for it: Lord Asriel’s allies were outnumbered, their weapons were less potent, and many more of them were lying wounded. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Even in her expert hands, it takes a long time to clean the wounds, arrange what shredded skin can be saved, apply a salve and a light bandage. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the time, Rabscuttle looked after El-ahrairah, brought him fresh dock leaves and kept the flies from his wounds until they healed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They were ready to come out anyway. The wounds stayed closed. I checked them in the bathroom.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

A wounded bear or panther could kill a man before he had time to load his gun again. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to press the surrounding area of the wound to see how far the infection has spread.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And we were in that house that we used to live in and it came around the corner but nobody had wound it up and it was really scary. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

By the time my wounds had softened and my rag of a blouse had come unstuck from them, I was exhausted. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Lee thought again of Rooney Lee, wounded, and prayed for him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a chair by me, washed the blood from my face, and, with a mother’s tenderness, bound up my head, covering the wounded eye with a lean piece of fresh beef. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

The wound still smarted; he still rebelled against his fate. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He searches it for signs of other wounds but finds none. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Yet there’s no visible entry wound or exit wound. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

But the others, all that were not hurt or wounded, began a great labour; for many had fallen in the battle and lay dead upon the field or in the Deep. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Heeding Hitler, SS squads rounded up every available man and boy they could comb out of the city, even plucking the sick and wounded from hospitals. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She has treated more than 1,500 wounded migrants since the shelter opened. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

If our wounds were not truly serious, we hid them from our parents. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wound around her like a living thing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He pointed at the fuzzy red wound in the sky. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Gradually he circled faster, pretending to run with the pack in pursuit of a wounded moose. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He had made a mistake before, and we had lost a man and had one wounded. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every photo is taken from an angle facing away from his wounds. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In the forest, Anya followed the path as it wound south, at first between enormous mossy trees. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Women dipped their handkerchiefs in his bloody wounds for souvenirs. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

If the captain was surprised, he gave no sign, and Horse put his large hand on the doc’s shoulder, where she laid her dark cheek against him as she continued stitching Archer’s wounds. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Hearts, lips, navels, all their strings wound tight. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Someone says we should let him sit in the sun, shave his skin open little by little, and rub salt into the wounds. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take off my Theresienstadt dress, and it rubs against the raw wound of the tattoo, shooting a twinge to the top of my head. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It seemed easy to get a head wound in the cave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get wound up, I speak fast, using a jumbled mix of English and Kinyamulenge. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He held her hair in his hands, and as he brushed it he wound it slowly into a thick long rope. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

His undershirt is so plastered into his wounds I have to cut it away with my knife and drench him again to work it loose. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Happiness would come, Harry thought, but at the moment it was muffled by exhaustion, and the pain of losing Fred and Lupin and Tonks pierced him like a physical wound every few steps. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You know something, Tock?” he said as he wound up the dog. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“From the wounds he earned at the French wars. I suppose it will only encourage your enterprise,” she said with some unease. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes and crossed her fingers, then asked aloud whether the wound was infected. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There were no wounds to show how he had died, nothing but a leaden bruise upon his temple. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He felt a deep love for the runaway boy, like a wound, and yet felt at the same time that this wound was not intended to fester in him, but that it should heal. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant dug his fingers into the wound on his biceps. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

An injection would be fastest, but he couldn’t manage a bottle and needle with his wounded hand. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The state had paid her to shelter children who were already wounded, and she broke them further—some permanently. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the throat wound, the bubble of blood still rose and fell rhythmically. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tubes and cables snaked across his body, coiled into his flesh, and wound in a tangle up to an incomprehensible mesh of blipping waveforms and drip-dropping fluid pouches. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She’ll reach out and take my face in her hands, turn it so Diego can see my latest war wound in the light. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

No one thought much about it until a couple of days later, when Tommy took off the dressing to reveal something at just that stage between sealing and still being an open wound. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rontu again licked his wound and this time he did not watch the two dogs moving slowly past the mound. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yeah, the guy can be wound tighter than a spool of thread, but that was a lot even for him. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He grabbed her neck with his eerily smooth gloved hand, pressing into her wound so that pain sliced through her, and drew her face close to his. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Secretary of State William H. Seward and his sons survived their wounds. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for the gay dressing-gown, and a sort of turban wound round his head, he was ready for bed: that is, he was naked. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he hadn’t been ravaged by the drug, he might have survived his wounds. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Blood spurts from the wound, and he screams again, pressing his forehead to the ground. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Make me some bandages or we die,” and, with that, he rolled onto the ground, tore off his burning clothes and set to work caking mud onto the deep wound in his shoulder. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Looking down at the rabbit again, Kingshaw suddenly noticed a great, mealy wound inside its ear, full of matter and blood and grubs. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It plained of its gaping wounds, its inward bleeding, its riven chords. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Early in the morning, reading a graphic description of combat wounds suffered by American soldiers, Gravel began to cry. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Beneath my dress, my wound stings, but I ignore it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I looked at the empty spot where my mother had lain, Janina’s mother, the man who wound his watch, the repeater. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

As the school year wound down, the junior class and I walked the halls with a sense of impending ownership. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Blood spilled from the bullet wound in his upper thigh, and a knife jutted from the right side of his chest. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Tending to the coal miners, healing the sick and wounded, had fulfilled him, too. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I took a bath, tended to my various wounds, and generally took a well-deserved rest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The bearers make a fuss about numbers and tickets, the wounded whimper. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later on we hear the Khmer Rouge soldiers had killed two people inside the temple and wounded many more. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother of the dead Alphagus had been a Spanish witch, and she had put an enchantment on Sir Urre of Hungary, so that none of the wounds could ever heal up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I thought that he had been hurt, yet there were no wounds on him. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure if my open and bleeding wound would ever heal. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Was your father a gambler down in Georgia that wound up on the wrong end of a gun? Were you born in the backseat of a Greyhound bus?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It is simply for having been wounded and having survived. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya couldn’t help but think of it as like the Hello Kitty Band-Aids she and Lauren had had when they were little: super cute, but not so great when it came to fixing major wounds. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They wound in and out of view, then around a bend and out of sight. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pinching the powder between his fingers, he rubbed it into the bloody wounds. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

He wound the rope until it was tight around the windlass, seized the bucket, and started down the hill, spilling soup as he went. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The wound from Varus’s blade would do its best to eat away at Jason’s life force. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed literally to wound other boys, and sometimes quite severely. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lift up the wounded man, one taking his splinted arm. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Greybeards and green boys, fighting men in their prime, wounded men and cripples, a good score of spearwives, even three Homfoot men. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They move southward in the breeding season and at such times a wounded one is only too likely to find itself deserted. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wounded man by the fire raised his eyes. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some physicians said there was nothing inevitable about Garfield's death from the bullet wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sela had placed herb poultices and healing salves on all the Warlord’s wounds. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When I reached for another, though, the rain-slicked first branch slipped right out of my grasp and I wound up on my butt, nearly falling to the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She kept thinking that if something happened to Milton, if he was wounded or, God forbid, if he didn’t come back—she would be somehow to blame. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She could smell his skin, could see the wounds on his shoulder up close. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

In the silvery moonlight, she couldn’t see any physical wounds on Ekon’s body, but he was shaking, trembling as she’d only seen one time before. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

To the left was an open railroad cut, unfinished, a white wound in the earth. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will cleaned out the wound with the godly drink while I held Annabeth s hand. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Simpson used a first aid patch to pick up something that had erupted from the hellish wound on Jenkins’ chest and fallen on the ground near him. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She started up the hill, following the deserted path as it wound among the wind-tossed trees. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Dan Lawrence was not yet twenty; he was still weak from his wounds and loss of blood, still under the cloud of a horror that only subsequent horrors could make him forget. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wound in my shoulder throbs, but I hardly feel it through the pulse of adrenaline. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They had grown in white as snow and bristly as a thombush while he was recovering from his wounds; he looked almost himself again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He hated his mother and brother with the savage clarity of a wronged and wounded adolescent. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I absently touch the knife wound at my own side. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“You’re wound up pretty tight. You got any gears in there that need loosening? I could take a look.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My bullet wound has begun to throb, and I lean against the wall for support. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

So I held it as long as I could, but that just made my Band-Aided wound hurt more. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Robert Baratheon had been hiding somewhere in the town, wounded and alone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The final layer of cloth clung stubbornly to the wound, and Crane-man had been trying to pull it off. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

At the same time he has been wounded by her: how can she treat him like this, cut him out of her life? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lee could see many wounded, wagons under trees, clusters of men drifting back through a field to the right. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wound up and swung, catching the thing under its arm. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She thought she could not support his weight or bear to see his wound again. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The church attempted to patch the holes in the old way of thought, but Aristotle, the geocentric world, and the feudal way of life were all mortally wounded. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I did exactly what she said and cleaned all my blood off and took my medicine and went to bed, but firing that rifle had me all wound up. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They wound and squeezed their way through bushes with fat shiny leaves. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The wounds on its dappled flanks, which had blossomed like red flowers under the lion's claws the day before, were now dried to brown and scabbed over. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Upon the wall hung a stick, wound about with ivy leaves, or rather, with a dark metal cunningly beaten to resemble ivy. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Only three were left, bleeding freely from their wounds. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She touched the end of the strip to a damp sponge, then, using the thumb and first two fingers of each hand as a rolling machine, she wound the paper on the wire. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ser Gregor himself had lost his horse - and staggered back across file Red Fork bleeding from a dozen wounds while a rain of arrows and stones fell all around him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Hundreds. Thousands. Some sick, some burned, some wounded. The Cats and the Windblown are swarming through the hills with lance and lash, driving them north and cutting down the laggards.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The multiple stab wounds inflicted on the victim strongly suggested mental illness, but the court records and files never referenced anything about Jenkins suffering from a disability. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He helped us store fish for the upcoming storms and plot out a burial yard for more than a hundred bodies, including the man who wound his watch. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“When I was wounded we were talking about it. Passini was talking.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Something in me is cracking open, the light coming through is so bright it hurts, and the rest of me is still here, wounded, even though I know it's all for the best. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then he strides out, tossing the wet rag to the navigator, who clearly has no interest in nursing my wound. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Grandmom’s rosary beads are wound around his fist, but he’s not drinking and looks sober. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After the poison left him, his wounds healed almost immediately.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The cameras are tight on me as I reach out my hands to the man, to the wounded, to the reluctant rebels across Panem. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“In fact,” Papa wound up, “all we lack having a tight tail-holt on the world is a little cash money. And we can get that at Abilene.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once he gave Matt a shot of antibiotics because the wound looked puffy and the boy was running a fever. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the boy hid it in nearby shrubbery until its wounds had mended. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kat and I proceed to free the wounded arm. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The direwolf wrenched free and came to him as the wight struggled to rise, dark snakes spilling from the great wound in its belly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was unhorsed by Kay, and horsed again, only to be wounded in the shoulder by Arthur himself—who was everywhere, youthful, triumphant, over-excited. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cloaked figure reached the unicorn, lowered its head over the wound in the animal’s side, and began to drink its blood. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

When a bison was fatally wounded, the medical student recalled, “the beast vomits torrents of blood and falls to its knees before sinking to the ground.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It wound itself—this wet light—all about him, splashing and running into his skin. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I only took the ones they had wounded and couldn’t find.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a competition that Belmonte would not enter because it would lead only to a bad horn wound or death. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He wound up with the middle of my arm and I had to grasp the side of the carriage with the other hand for balance. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The thorn came out smoothly and the wound bled. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its marks, its scars, its wounds from old wars and the walking-backwards days .all fell away. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father woke up the next morning with a horrible rash on his hands and arms, presumably wounded by the plant that bites. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her wrists and ankles were raw where the skin had been worn away, and insects swarmed around the oozing wounds. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this good news he felt himself relax, and as a little tension left his body, he felt the pain of his wound more sharply. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty-three students were wounded in the hail of gunfire, some of them with as many as eight separate wounds. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Children of the dark, children of evil! Your mother has been humiliated! Come to me now, come back home. Punish these insolent girls! Unleash your wrath upon them! Make them suffer! Avenge my wounded pride!” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Still even wounded you do not see it. I can tell. I do not see it myself but I feel it a little.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It appeared facing the Imperial Box, so that its open, roaring mouth looked like a red wound with small, sharp, deadly bones glistening in it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Can you confirm the name of the patient with the shrapnel wound and the bad ear, Miss Vilkas?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

This is a time to heal the old wounds and build a new South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not try to treat its wound with herbs because salt water heals and the herbs would have washed off anyway. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We clean Gale’s neck wound and I realize bandages won’t be enough. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She wrapped the wounds on his back and stomach while Annabeth pushed tiny bites of ambrosia into his mouth. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He ventured his life a number of times to bring in wounded men. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was getting harder and harder to get her to keep her eyes even half open, and though the bleeding from the wound had stopped, she seemed to be fading from him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I always tried to keep the tape wound to just that spot so I could play the song whenever a chance came by. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cook’s glance falls to my wound, and she shakes her head. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"I don't write poetry anymore," Yolanda says in a wounded voice. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Later in the war, he acted as one of the Union army's most senior doctors, influencing the surgical treatments of wounded soldiers. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She used the salve as a paste to compress the wadded seaweed against the wound. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I moved from body to body, treating blisters, wounds, frostbite. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Lying on the ground next to Middleton was Henry Smith, eighteen years old and also dying, the result of five gunshot wounds. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Willit was borne in on a litter, so grievous were his wounds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But this dance was not about wounded bird girls, and Sosie reveled in unleashing the full power of her body. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Conquering Bear was one of the first to fall, severely wounded. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

And he told about the heat and thirst of their desert journey and how they were almost at their goal when another lion chased them and wounded Aravis. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The smirk I’d been expecting earlier slid across his face, but underneath it I thought there was a residue of the weird, wounded softness I’d seen in the mirror before. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The wound proved to be incurable and finally Zeus permitted Chiron to die rather than live forever in pain. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the last bloody combat Martin was seriously wounded. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

If he had died of his wounds that day, Arnold would be remembered as one of the great heroes of the Revolutionary War. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birds sang only gray songs and the road wound back and forth in an endless series of climbing curves. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but I’ll need the alcohol to clean the wound before I dress it.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Instead of following him to the ship, I had left him with hundreds of wounded men. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He's a good friend of Kerling's who described him as having "splinters on top of his brain" from his war wound. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Now that she could see him properly, she was frightened of the boy almost more than the bear: he had a horrible wound: two of his fingers were missing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I followed Dylan and Worm along a path that wound through pastures of grazing sheep before a lung-busting ascent up a ridge. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The instant my wounded leg hits the cement, I scream as loud as I can. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The garment was a clumsy thing, a long loose shapeless sheet that had to be wound around her hips and under an arm and over a shoulder, its dangling fringes carefully layered and displayed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Paper and ink, poems and my postbox are medicines that heal the wounds of a fife without freedom. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Eomeoni explained that given the number of wounded that needed care, even two nurses were not enough. So they let Nurse Pak go, but I’ve never been so scared in my life.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I came to my feet, stretching carefully so as not to aggravate my wound. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Someone had even cleaned and wrapped the mild abrasions on my hands and the knife wound from three days ago when Ambrose’s thugs had tried to kill me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The man who wound his watch was sick. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry about your poor tender head,” he said, putting a hand on Gurgi’s shoulder, “and that a friend should be wounded for my sake.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He looked back at her, the low light touching on his scars and healing wounds, the marks of the impressors written all over his body. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The tightly wound anger in my chest began to unravel, slowly at first, then in a strange, cool rush. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He was stiff and sore now and his wounds and all of the strained parts of his body hurt with the cold of the night. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, a family line, connection. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They stood at a bend in the paved road that wound around Prospect Park, directly beneath a lamppost. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

"Could he have saved my life? Healed my wounds with yarrow and a prayer?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

So her usual patients are burned or wounded or ill. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I could be bleeding to death from a head wound in Mr. X’s bathroom and here you are, playing with the intercom.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But it was like Gideon had gotten a wound in him too. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Halfhand wound a long black scarf around his face and swung up into the saddle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I picked my way out of the brambles and climbed to the ground, ankles wounded and creaking. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Far away to the left the river Entwash wound, a silver thread in a green floor. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Despite his wounds, the agent poured on speed, and Taylor felt something she hadn’t experienced in years: fear. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

If only every wound could be banished so easily. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The mere suggestion of illness or wounds was to him not only horrifying, but even repulsive and rather disgusting. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His wounds aren’t from any tree,” she said, pulling back the blanket. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The door of Barracks Hall burst open and a wounded man staggered out screaming. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Apollo enveloped him in a cloud and carried him to sacred Pergamos, the holy place of Troy, where Artemis healed him of his wound. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two more days would give the wounded time to rest and heal. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“He says wounding or hurting someone else leaves just as big a mark on the attacker,” she went on. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He cleaned off Aurora’s wound as well as he could and applied an ointment she told him would numb the area. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Today, a physician would recognize that fever and a pus-producing wound pointed to a serious infection. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A killed flyer earned two points for the shooter, while a wounded walker scored a mere half point. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

That night they wound their way through the woods up to the ridge by a wood-cutter's track. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He must have seen the corner of my mouth twitch, because he added, “But don’t think you’re going to get all the bandages—these are superficial wounds at best.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But after that each one can widen the opening of the hook wound and he can throw the hook. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This one’s name was Pompey. She was a fine dog, and could heal wounds with a few licks of her tongue. A wonder to behold! And yet this is how she was treated.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Suppose that all this time, little by little, Dust had been leaking out of the wounds the subtle knife had made in nature... The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Wound too loose, it was like to fall off; wound too tight, it would tangle, trip, and bind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the absence of this protein, blood refuses to clot—and even a small nick or wound can accelerate into a lethal bleeding crisis. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He walked out to the porch, glanced up and down the empty street, came inside, and wound up right back where he started, on the couch. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

And through the blue layer of water, I see a milky substance leaching out of the wounds on my skin. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As our buggy wound its way up through the bottoms, Grandpa started talking. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I won’t be able to assess your wound if you do not reveal it to me.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I do not think I could have watched them cut, but 1 watched the wound closed into a high welted ridge with quick skilful-looking stitches like a cobbler's, and was glad. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The brisk air of spring did not dispel the stench of engine oil and festering wounds. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“He was wounded, but I vow, he still lives.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I tried to wound his men, not kill. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Someone had rubbed salt in all his wounds. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Still, many experts have concluded that Garfield's wound was not necessarily fatal, even given the limits of 1881 medical technology and knowledge. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

My battle rage surges, but I rein it in, fighting to wound, not kill. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She doesn't know what to do with her hands, so she keeps reaching for her wound, then stopping herself. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Scare others off. Prevent the wounded from seeking help,” says Gale. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I hold my right arm against my chest as I sprint faster, the bullet wound in my shoulder throbbing with each footstep. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, it had been the young blond woman who'd wound up with the most disturbing story. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Ugwu did not want to go into that ragged bazaar but he steeled himself and walked toward a man sitting on the ground with a red-stained rag wound around his head. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Hamlet lamented that he left behind a name so wounded, and he bade me tell his story, which I do still.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t—” I wasn’t sure I had the control to put this question—“mind if I wound up head of the class, would you?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay panting like a wounded duck, quietly cursing as I inched the jack forward under an axle that I had to find by feel, since it was under water. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It must be removed so we can clean the wound. The demons of sickness are no doubt already scheming to enter your body through such a door.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I reach down to my belly button and make sure there’s no wound, even though I know that there’s no wound. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Jonas and I held the front, Mrs. Rimas and the man who wound his watch held the center, and the bald man carried the back. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

How did he know she had not been wounded, for example, and unable to travel long distances? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He told me later he had received the wound during a border skirmish with the outlaw dragons who lived in the hills of the seashore. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo felt a sudden chill running through him and clutching at his heart; there was a deadly cold, like the memory of an old wound, in his shoulder. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I try not to look at the bullet wound in her head, but the dim light glows on what looks like bone, and I gag. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Longer, maybe four days, or more like seven. But don’t be all hope, child. If he had deep head wounds, he might be addled crazy and not know where he wandered off to die.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sounds like a good plan,” she said, getting all wound up and pawing at the dirt with her sneakers. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There they found the old woman dead of a gunshot wound. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wound Francie’s two heavy braids around her head and pinned them in place with bone hairpins which she took from her own hair. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hung the raw, red screen of their tiny vessels in front of me like a wound. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I sat on the sofa, stuck my legs out in front of me, and studied the scabs on my shins, the brown scars of countless wounds and scrapes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Diamant slumped down in his chair, too stunned to smoke, and I had a great bleeding wound somewhere deep inside my chest. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Once they were safely out of the creature’s mouth, they followed the stone path that wound around the cave that wasn’t a cave at all but a gigantic whale thing. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Their wounds were patched or covered, and they were oiled and prepared for whatever was to come next. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found a pair of scissors at last and began cutting carefully through Snowden’s coveralls high up above the wound, just below the groin. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A gravel path wound through the trees, and we crunched along it toward a clearing. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He jabbed at the wound in Big Bol’s stomach with the tip of his cane. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Shut your mouth,” she said, her words trembling as she fought the pain of her wounds. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how Dad even wound up with those. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

They came with dozens of badly wounded soldiers, and once again the medical clinic was over capacity. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Cradling my damaged cheek in my hand, I remind myself that it was not Clove but Thread who gave me this wound. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Zola, she is all orange and yellow and turquoise, with three skirts and a blouse and a shawl and a purple ribbon wound around her ankle and green feathers in her hair. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The boys moved like a couple of dancers in a well-rehearsed routine until most of their rope wound around Mr. Flux, mummy-style. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Some got wounds you could see, some got wounds you couldn’t. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lourdes is mesmerized by the greenish water, by the sad, sputtering fountain, and a wound inside her reopens. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph put his head down on his forearms and accepted this new fact like a wound. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

True, the wounds still hurt, but with a different quality of pain: not the deep life-sapping ache of the day before, but a smaller, duller sensation. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Painter taught Kelley how to “roll and stuff” a sucking chest wound. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The identities of the wounded are being withheld pending further investigation, but we've received reports that one of the teens was pronounced dead en route to the hospital, and the other is in critical condition. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And like many inmates, he has scars: three inches long on his waist below the ribs, about one inch long on his arm, penny-size circles that look like two bullet wounds on a shoulder blade. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’ve been wound up for hours, dashing around the house, thrilled to be awake so late. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, she throws with her right, but it's enough to slow her down a few moments, having to pull the arrow from her arm, take in the severity of the wound. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Because the wound did not heal during that hour, he was sad. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he's as badly wounded as Cato thinks, I'd be in the position of having to defend us both without any assistance. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet, rushing through the forest toward the open beach. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

My wounded hand flies to cover my mouth in horror at the curse, as though to stop a scream, but I don’t scream. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Their voices crawled up her spine and wound around her neck. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Or we might see a soldier who had been wounded or whose enlistment was up walking back to his home. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wounded man screamed for a while, then begged for a while, then went back to screaming. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dying horses and wounded men lay all around, screaming or moaning. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Two years had passed since the day I met Frankie, but our first encounter was engraved in my memory like a knife wound. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The wounded knights were laid on stretchers in the outer room. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still down on his knees, with all eyes fixed upon him, Dr. Leale announced his diagnosis and prediction: “His wound is mortal; it is impossible for him to recover.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers probed and pressed against the wound. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He grimaced as Ihe woman slid the point of her knife beneath the soiled linen wound about his shield hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His wound was bleeding afresh where die queen had struck him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Back up a minute. If wounded birds are floppers, what do you call dead birds?” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

We buried the man who wound his watch. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

My wound chafes against my dress until it’s bleeding. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Smoke from the engine drifted over the heads of the chattering crowd, while cats of every color wound here and there between their legs. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Bliss had been a surgeon for thirty years and was considered an expert in gunshot wounds. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There were other wounds on his body from the teeth of the wild dogs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I have done everything I can for Bran," she said, laying a wounded hand on his arm. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Buckthorn had been bitten in the foreleg, and the wound, in the manner of a rat bite, was irritant and painful. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though he might have meant it in jest, my pride was deeply wounded. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured,’ said Gandalf. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In warfare, for example, you attend first to the severely wounded who have the best chance of survival. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Thistlewood learned the lesson of terror early on: He witnessed a master who had caught a runaway first whip him, then rub pepper, salt, and lime into his wounds. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Men lay groaning, mortally wounded, and the floor smoked with blood. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man who wound his watch told the story of his sixteenth birthday. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

In a line, the three of us wound our way through the cemetery and back to the house. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Thalia rubbed her thigh like she was remembering the old wound. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He knows the cause of death—“gunshot wound to the head”—because he asked to see the death certificate, and the Riverses consented. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The wound was thick and long and warm. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The doctor kept asking, “You feel anything?” as he touched and squeezed parts of my body where I had been wounded or shot. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Twenty?—and then Ms. Morales aimed the SUV into a long driveway that wound up a hill. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was in this posture that he noted—how had he missed it before?—the wound to the skull over the dead man’s left ear. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The branches echoed with birdsong, and the paths wound around lush flower beds and between heavy emerald bushes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I drizzle water on the wound, my hands. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A footpath wound through a grove of cedars. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Clove begins to lap the blood flowing from my wound, each lick sending a new wave of pain through my face. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But from his time in the underground cell, Shin remembered how Uncle had rubbed salted cabbage soup into his wounds. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Mixing it into a mud, I worked it into his wounds to stop the flow of blood. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know about the status conferred by wounds. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was too hard to fight the wind screaming like a giant wounded dove. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was clear that no one else had ended up with a wound. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

For he shaved our skull, and cleansed our wound and bound it neat with bandages stolen from the home of an unsuspecting leader of the mob, ha! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You do not mind it. You do not see it. You must forgive me. I know you are wounded.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Without waiting for an answer, I turned the corner and drove through the cemetery gates and down the narrow wagon road that wound around old graves and old trees. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The man who wound his watch looked at the sky. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The two instantly formed a tight bond: both were willing to work hard and make tough decisions to save wounded infantrymen. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Nucleus G was only about the size of a small mountain, but it created wounds in the Jovian surface the size of Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

With a pair of barber’s shears he cut hair out of the way until the outlines of this wound emerged cleanly. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

With his parents gone, he wound up in a filthy orphanage, more like a prison than a home for helpless kids. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

People point hot dogs at wounded, scurrying birds, yell to wringers, “There! There!” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Those of us who came back to Dinetah from the war were all wounded, not just in our bodies, but in our minds and our spirits. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Gustloff will transport our wounded men, officers, and priority passengers whose identities l am helping to conceal. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was one thing for her to have known him as a child; it was another for her to come to terms with the nature of his adult wounds. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lancelot stuck his blade in the ground and went over to examine the wound. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Perhaps. Some of my ancestors have been heroes. Some have been villains. You saw the ghost with the gunshot wounds in the chest?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

For him, the party was two days ago—old news—but the things he’d said, the way he’d treated me, were still fresh wounds for me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Mango must have traveled between them and somehow wound up here. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The doctor stuck a crooked- looking scissors inside my wound and fished for the bullet. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I got a glimpse of the wound on his thigh, gaping, charred flesh, burned clear down to the bone, before I ran from the house. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Don’t,” I say automatically, because that will only make the wound worse. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Kneeling beside her, his face turned gray at the sight of her wound. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She felt instantly embarrassed because she hadn’t bathed in days, she knew her wounds and salves probably stank, and she had proved herself incapable in the master’s home. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Homer calls him murderous, blood-stained, the incarnate curse of mortals; and, strangely, a coward, too, who bellows with pain and runs away when he is wounded. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the ambrosia, his wounded arm began to throb. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They called in helicopters to evacuate the wounded. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The city pulled back to lick its wounds. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When the first compress was dyed red, I had Sander cut another and pressed it to the wound until at last the bleeding slowed enough to allow me to bind it in place. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

At last, as the patient crafts of the Master Herbal worked their healing, his wounds began to close and the fever left him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Folks were wound tighter than a roll of chicken wire lately. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know I was wound up until I go slack with relief on hearing her words. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I felt like a knife had cut deep into the old painful wound, sliced open the healed scar, and caused it to bleed freely once again. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was with us for two years without being wounded, so that something had to happen in the end. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gravely wounded in World War I, he had survived and returned an even greater maestro. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He displayed his wound, told him of his flight that day, how he had rowed across the river with the object of wandering into the town, and how the river had laughed. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time the device exploded as intended, severely wounding the senator’s maid when she unwrapped the package. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

At night, in the flickering light from the fire, it seemed to her that the wound, that great hole in the forehead, throbbed. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat on the walkway that wound round the circumference of the big spherical room, her legs dangling over the edge—her very thin, very short legs. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The wounded seemed proud of their wounds—the more the better. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t bleed or purge away people’s strength when they need it most. And I know enough to try to keep a wound clean.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He held up the head while Billy swabbed out the wound with weak carbolic acid salve. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

My fingers go to the wound on my head, to the cut on my lip. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had forgotten to open my coat, to display my wound. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I turned away from his shocked, wounded face and headed for the door. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I have known many men to escape the front through self- inflicted wounds.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mom had the devastating gunshot wound in her abdomen. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In combat he was terrifying, fighting entirely to kill, indifferent to any wounds he received himself and closing with his adversaries until his weight overbore and exhausted them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A good distance separated Rontu from his attacker and I could end the battle before he was wounded further or the pack fell upon him. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A trickle of blood oozed from the wound on his head. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maggots spewed from the wounds across his body as he took a few rasping breaths. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When a Navajo was wounded in battle, he did not moan or cry out the way many of the other men around us did. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wound around the fake plants set up in the room, draped over the wall clocks and basketball goals, snaked through the bowls of chips and cookies on the snack table. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

More sand poured from the wound, but again the earth rose up to cover him. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“This world is like a friend with a mortal wound. A bitter draught given quickly only eases pain.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Like how the work of addressing the wounds they had caused never seemed to end. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

High Chancellor Thomas wound down after droning on for almost an hour. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The field dropped into a shallow ravine, where a country road wound north and south. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Fresh wounds, old ones, wounds in various stages of pain and healing. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It climbed like a rising girdle from the west and wound snakelike about the Mountain, until before it went round out of view it reached the foot of the cone upon its eastern side. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Over the next several days there was a strained, tightly wound quality to the way they treated each other, a rigid correctness that was enforced by repetitive acts of willpower. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, if I've wounded an animal with an arrow, it's better to get a knife into it, too, before I approach it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The police were clever enough to detain a prisoner long enough for the wounds and bruises to heal, and often it was simply the word of a policeman against our client. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a normal day, with no knife wound, I never would’ve let a detail like that go unnoticed. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But tonight, as we've agreed, we're staging a coup on the same Avenida where a decade ago the dictator was cornered and wounded on his way to a tryst with his mistress. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The dressing station was on the Austrian side of the river under the edge of the hill and stretcher-bearers would bring the wounded back across the pontoon bridge. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Later on he walked the way she had gone, following the arroyo east and then north, where it wound into the pale yellow hills. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wound on his leg was already closing. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

During the past winter he had fought near Philadelphia and been wounded in the leg. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Four men had been killed outright and two others had died of wounds on the trail home. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I washed the wound and dressed it, and then I hid the shirt with the bullet hole in it inside my mattress. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me see your wound” was the first thing she said to Will, and he dumbly held out his hand. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had knocked down at least ten Long Knives before he was shot and seriously wounded. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t been physically wounded, but now were unable to do anything. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Titan had healed a bad wound on Percy’s shoulder just by touching it. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And judging by his battle wound, I didn’t think Lucas would either. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He said he didn’t want anything to happen to the wound. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He believes that there is an ointment which, if rubbed on a dagger which has caused a wound, will cure the wound. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was his treasure to have wound up in that strange land, met up with a thief, and doubled the size of his flock without spending a cent. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Rontu’s jaws sought another hold, three of the many arms wound themselves around his neck. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Few had left it and of these all were wounded. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its wounds are as fresh as the wounds of the men who carved it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The entrance wound on his back was an ugly shade of purple and it steamed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I was ashamed when I saw his wounded hands. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Florida heard the faint wail of the freight train as it wound its way through the distant hills, and she pulled the quilt up close to her face. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered what he could do to heal the wound. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They tell her not to dress their stumps and wounds. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

On and on, now east, now west, wound the poor thread that once had been our drive. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Kamala’s wound was washed, but it was already black and her body had swelled. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wound up calling Cingular’s legal department, who told him such requests could take ten to fifteen days, an amount of time that had already elapsed. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

His father, with the air of one forcing the sinner to look down into the pit that is to be his portion, moved away slightly so that John could see Roy’s wound. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

This is all I can find on that topic: A gunshot wound to the Heart is almost always fatal. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s bigger than he is and just as fast, and when the inevitable fight comes, it’s bloody and awful and both have received what could well be fatal wounds, when Haymitch is finally disarmed. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

His wound was painful and the shoulder muscle would not stand hard use. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Walt’s double life came to light, the revelations inflicted deep wounds. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In contrast, Indian blunt clubs, while capable of battering and wounding Spaniards and their horses, rarely succeeded in killing them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He must have bled out from his wounds. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the night wound down, I escorted Sohrab and his mom out and said good night to the living room, where all the ladies sat sipping tea and talking over each other in Farsi. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

First responders, Gideon had called them—the firefighters and police that arrived first on a scene and took care of the wounded. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

In two months I could distill liquor until it was too strong to drink, bandage a wound, set a bone, and diagnose hundreds of sicknesses from symptoms. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She tore up a sheet and wrapped it around and around, clamping it down over the wounds as tight as she could. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man was bleeding from a head wound. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew no one who would be willing to soothe or comfort or aid a grievously wounded being. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He himself was left for dead, with a pistol bullet in his chest and a saber wound in his pelvis. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It wound like a gully carved by a river that had left to find a cleaner bed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Feeding people is just putting a tiny bandage on a gaping wound. It might stop the bleeding for a while, but ultimately the wound will still be there.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The wounds gave up pus until he wasted away. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Now, again, return seemed easy: the high gods wound the wind into the east, and back he sailed, this time to his own coast. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Automatically, she glanced at their backs half expecting to see wounded men. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Colonel? Request permission to go pick up some of our wounded. We left a few boys out there.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each new reminder strikes at the raw spot, deepens the wound. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A foul, sweet smell rose from the wound, so thick it almost choked her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Sam gave him a look at wounded reproach. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he would get letters from people in his unit or from the doctors and nurses who had worked on him after he was wounded. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The wound was a great deal better and soon Hazel fell asleep. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the beads she was wearing were driven into the wound. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure whether to feel wounded or worried. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I did not feel so wounded by their rejection of me that I wanted to spend my days bleating about what they had done. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Grossman needed to cut away more dead tissue—he felt that the wounds still weren’t clean enough for a skin graft. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He had no idea how deeply those words wounded me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And my dreaming eyes wanted to study Pap’s wound long and hard. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Now and again he lowered his head to lick a wound on his leg, but whenever he did he always kept his eyes on the two dogs trotting up and down. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strike would have dissolved any lesser monster, but Polybotes just staggered and looked down at the golden ichor —the blood of immortals—spilling from his wound. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Even before Holly had finished his story, Hazel had fallen to sniffing at his wounded ear. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were reports of frightful American casualties—some newspaper said that two thousand American soldiers were being killed and wounded every day. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He’d seen other people’s wounds turn nasty, sick with rot and gangrene; seen their stumps crawling with maggots where they’d gone bad after having an amputation. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But to wound an animal was something else. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam’s wound was not deep, but it looked ugly, and Aragorn’s face was grave as he examined it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When Blanca saw the long unpolished wooden table where two rows of children were awaiting their portions with pleading eyes, she began to cry and wound up spending two days with a splitting headache. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inflammation round his wound, he sensed, was growing, and the skin was becoming tighter, harder, with something, not blood, leaking out of it onto his shirt. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The gray-haired man shook his head and wound his watch. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Within a few days, they are treating only the wound. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Captain,” a man calls out, “there are seventeen wounded, no one dead.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He cleaned the long ugly wound and applied a poultice of herbs. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I forced myself to slow down as I tied the strip around Stef’s arm just above the wound. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blood surges from a wound in her abdomen, dyeing her shirt crimson. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

His doctors used quinine as a tonic that would lower his fever and help heal his wounds. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“That’ll be great” She wound up trading twelve packets of SpagBol for another sleeping bag, and six for a handmade sweater, which left her with eight. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She was sitting down, licking at the wound in her shoulder. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any difficult crime he always referred to the state police: in fact, they wound up processing most of his arrests. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wounded, not badly, in the waning days of the Battle of the Bulge. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The landlord was an elderly man in a brown caftan and matching trousers; he had the weathered skin and wounded air of one who had endured much at the hands of others. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Only after the publicar had wound its way down the mountain pass and was on a main road did she look at the paper that Scythe Curie had given her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She trembled as disappointment wound its way up her arms. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He’s scanning me like he’s searching for wounds. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The runaway would be beaten, and salt pickle, lime juice, and bird pepper would be rubbed into his or her open wounds. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Constance arrived just as the victim fell wounded. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Frodo dozed, though the pain of his wound was slowly growing, and a deadly chill was spreading from his shoulder to his arm and side. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A street urchin with filthy dungarees and eyes the wounded blue of fresh bruises, guided by the hand into a public toilet by a much older gentleman. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes, he’s a courier for Gauleiter Koch. He was wounded and says Koch appointed you as his personal nurse.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

"Sometimes, my dear. And I have got arrow wounds. Have you ever seen arrow wounds?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The tunnel through the Wall was narrow and twisting, and many of the wildlings were old or ill or wounded, so the going was painfully slow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

All the way to school he sat alone, his wounded cheek pressed against the cool glass of the window. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few seconds of a medic putting a tag on a wounded soldier. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without warning, Lucky Girl shoved her thumb into his back, into the heart of the wound. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

One time Papá told us how he had joined the Cristero Revolt in 1926, when he was sixteen, and had been wounded in the knee and thrown in jail for six months. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

An old embroidered blue rug covered in geometrical white shapes wound down its length, and the razor-thin windows lining both its sides offered only strips of Lkossa’s pale morning light. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Somehow, he survived his wounds, but the innocent bystander died. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He dabs open wounds on his face with a filthy sweater he has found on the tracks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Frankie wrapped ripped pieces of T-shirt and paper towels around the puncture wound to stop the bleeding, then told Diana to look for something they could use for splints. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

No, no, no, I moan inside like a wounded thing, l am caught again. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He poked them into the puncture wounds, like rosemary into a chicken. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Lying next to her on the deck, Blackjack wheezed and shuddered - still alive, but badly wounded. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We didn’t talk about the wounded man or about Turner, who had died. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he had only wounded Lincoln, then the president, even at fifty-six years old, would have been a worthy opponent. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as the wound kept draining well, though, they weren't worried. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Several of the men have no shoes, protecting their feet with rags wound around them only, and their discomfort was extreme. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t want her to think that she wrapped my wound badly, so I add, “Much better than yesterday, though.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He shakes his head and he looks so wounded, so upset, and I hate it, I can’t bear it. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Single file, the men walked along a narrow, muddy trail that wound alongside the river. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As more effective procedures were developed, surgery and wound treatment became safer. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

For a minute it hurts even more as the bandage material, the human cell whatever the hell she talked about, crawls into the wounds and makes a bind. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wilson was hit on the head with a brick, and even as he lay wounded on the ground, they continued to kick and beat him. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty feet below that, a highway emerged from the hill’s base and wound its way toward Berkeley. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her skin was jaundiced, and when she checked her belly wound, I saw that it was lined with bubbling black sores. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Sarai had used the last of her water yesterday to clean the wound on her arm, and woke dehydrated—no doubt her weeping in the night hadn’t helped—with nothing to drink. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I jerk into action, aiming my left fist where I know it will hurt the worst: at the bullet wound in his arm. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

An old wound he had received fighting forty years ago in the French and Indian Wars had stiffened up on him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wound up the tackle, put it away, pulled up the anchor and made for the wharf. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After every gunfight we would enter the rebel camp, killing those we had wounded. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Moses’s first whipping for stealing a potato, and his second whipping for idleness, when Connelly had the boy’s wounds washed out with hot pepper until he howled. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I guess I would have wound up in Canada next. But in all my traveling, do you know the only time I ever felt relieved and eager to be going to a place?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The raised dirt path that wound around the island was bolstered by bags of sand to prevent any more of the shore from disappearing into the water. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon wind had dropped away and left the air raw and wounded. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There's usually a lag of a few days between the end of the competition and the presentation of the victor so that they can put the starving, wounded, mess of a person back together again. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Someone wound himself in the folds of the red velvet curtain and peered out from it like an exotic spy. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mountains my mother set up a hospital in a cave, and she carried the wounded there. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Four brothers dead. A dozen wounded. A third as many as the foe. And we took captives. One died quickly from his wounds, but the other lived long enough to be questioned." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She sat up with the red-eyed, wounded look of a person jerked from sleep. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Every letter written,” said a medieval abbot, "is a wound inflicted on the devil.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face was an inch from the wound. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Hold the light,” the doctor said, and when the servant held the lantern high, the doctor looked for a moment at the wound on the baby’s shoulder. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sergeant doctor cleaned my wounds and would always say, “You are lucky.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A man can stop a bullet and be killed; he can get wounded, and then the hospital is his next stop. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It corresponded only too well with the deep wound in the back of Rogers' head.... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Tao!” she said softly, and as she gathered him into her arms he wound his black needle-tipped paws lovingly around her neck. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inej felt like she and Kaz had become twin soldiers, marching on, pretending they were fine, hiding their wounds and bruises from the rest of the crew. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Now, as he watched him limping and staggering up the slope, it occurred to him that he might actually be wounded in some way. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The procession wound its way back and forth across the storage yard several times, and came to a stop in the temple. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, I have never seen a retreat—if there is a retreat how are all the wounded evacuated?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had two sucking chest wounds and an abdominal wound. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Their car was suddenly surrounded by demonstrators, some of them wounded. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Congress effectively outlawed their communal property, passing vast acreages into the public domain, tracts which then suddenly wound up in the hands of large American ranching enterprises like the Devine Company. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you react when Jerome Rogers lay wounded on the ground? Did you render aid?” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

She was on track to become a doctor and then she married my dad instead, and that wound up not being what she wanted. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Slowly, as I would with a wounded animal, my hand stretches out and brushes a wave of hair from his forehead. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I set my spoon neatly beside my bowl, raised my eyes to his and said yeah, I was looking for more than just help with the head wound. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Even though Garfield died from his bullet wound, this change did not happen until after the 1901 assassination of President William McKinley. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Over the next few months, I visited townships all across the violence-racked Vaal Triangle south of Johannesburg, comforting wounded people and grieving families. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though we were all healed of the fever, some wounds were inside the heart and would mend slowly. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would just have to be patient with them until one or two were killed and the rest wounded, and then they would all turn out okay. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I gradually wound myself out of their conversation. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hardly has any wrinkles and has these big, round eyes that always look sad and wounded. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"You look as though you'd eaten too many sweets, not suffered a mortal wound," Mr. Armin said. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bleeding had stopped and the wound wasn’t deep. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I remember we wound up agreeing that by the year 2000, eveiy schoolchild will be taught the true color of great men of antiquity. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

No blood seeped from the wound, and it smelled clean. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her wounded arms, arms she had cut on the window glass when she’d leaped to the tree, were wrapped in bandages. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

One night the new, still-unridden bike wound up at the Pikes’ front curb with the trash cans. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He’s still holding up his machete, still glaring at me, glaring at Hildy, his Noise throbbing like a wound. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

We wound up with eleven fellows from Kent sleeping three to a bedchamber and using the second-floor drawing room as their common area for dining and conversating. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was pretty sure sword wounds weren’t supposed to smoke. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Laney was put in charge of soothing Jessie’s wounded soul by feeding her cheese croissants while Isa, Hyacinth, and Oliver gathered cleaning supplies and a garbage bag and went upstairs. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I liked being alone with poor Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem, who—oh, come on, he’s not going to survive these seventeen bullet wounds, is he? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Later, when he went overseas and was in the war and all, he didn't get wounded or anything and he didn't have to shoot anybody. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Still, without soon being rescued they were sure to die, because their wounds were so infected their flesh had begun to stink and rot. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She began to tear it up to bind his wounds. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the footage wound to a close, Sahil took my hand. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then, suddenly, Hagrid let out a howl like a wounded dog. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Each insult was woven with just enough truth to make it wound. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Stella first poured the cold water on the wound, watching as the oozing blood turned pale pink. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He focused on the need for speed, not camping in the forests of Maryland, cowering like a wounded animal, fearful that every noise meant the hunters were about to seize him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had treated their bites and claw wounds. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over 100,000 more would die of wounds, burns, and radiation poisoning. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, the second since the battle, Romans and Greeks worked side by side to clean up the warzone and tend the wounded. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She bawled me out again, and the whole family wound up getting involved. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Citra thought death from such a wound would be instantaneous, but apparently not. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Today I didn’t even braid my hair, just wound it in a knot and tied a sock around it. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Chief Buthelezi spoke first to assembled delegates and media and in the process opened old wounds rather than healing them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We wound up losing our friendship over it for a little while. Being in Good Boys brought us back together.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In spite of the wound in Ins backside, Lancelot fought in the next tournament—an important one, because of several things which happened at it. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am wounded. A good Marine can be brought down only when his heart stops beating.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crazy Horse and his decoy warriors had to act like the wounded grouse. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

It took Sarai a moment to understand what she meant, because she thought of the blood spurting up from the wound in the bed, and of the phantom pressure of the knifepoint against her breast. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Interesting,” said the man who wound his watch. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

A quick shot of local anesthetic, irrigate the wound, nine stitches, and I was done. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been everywhere, one moment fighting and dressing the wounds the next. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wound was far more serious than Garfield’s, and without emergency treatment, Reagan would have died. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She heard it as she had never heard it before, and there were other sounds as well, grunts of pain, angry curses, shouts for help, and the moans of wounded and dying men. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We wound through the meanders that led between stubbled mud-banks in no straight or seemly course. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I’d seen him in the back parking lot a couple of times, but he always gave me this weird look, like he was some wounded animal I’d just tried to run over or something. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He rubbed salty cabbage soup into the wounds as a disinfectant. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Robinson, a wounded veteran, was serving as an army nurse, keeping watch over Seward as he recovered. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning before school, my mother would twist and yank on my thick black hair until she had formed two tightly wound pigtails. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not much in the way of defensive wounds,” Riley said doubtfully. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I overheard a few comments as I walked to the bar, and realized that yester- day most of them had seen me wrapped in bandages, presumably with terrible wounds underneath. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Golden ichor flowed from the wounds on his arms and chest. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“And I don’t like this new habit of pounding on things when you get upset. That’s not you, Marcus. It’s this whole dad thing. It’s got you all wound up.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

In hospital waiting rooms, Rasheed said, the wounded were bleeding to death. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He pointed it at the starry cage holding the snake, which drifted upward, off Snape, who fell sideways onto the floor, blood gushing from the wounds in his neck. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Her eyes go wide, her hands flutter over her heart, as though the wound is immodest and she needs to cover it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It falls to the floor like a wounded bird as we leave the store. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He pulled the plug out of the wall socket and carefully wound the cord in circles. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was wrapping a shirt around the man’s wound. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

By the time his wounds were healed, he had announced to the Council that he was resigning. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The pain surged with each breath and step, releasing warm blood out of the angry wound. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A groom dipped bandages in ice water laced with Epsom salts and wound them around the left foreleg. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not sex—love,” I say, panting as the Duchess goes back to cleaning my wounds. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Sir made a bandage out of a piece of his sack of sunflower seeds and taped it over Stanley's wound. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I pull the flesh apart to see how deep the wound goes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Carefully, I peeled back the dressing and saw that, although the wound wasn’t oozing, her entire calf was purple now. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

So with Gideon on one side, still pressing the T-shirt against the wound, and Sergio on the other, they hoisted the man to his feet and made their way out of the train. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

As they were running back, they left one of their wounded men behind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The ground was blanketed with fresh white snow as the Witchlings and one black wagon containing one cranky toad, pulled by Thorn, wound through town toward the Bruised Apple Bookshop. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The wound was still too fresh for softer words. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The four boys stared open-mouthed at the wound and the scrap of flesh, like a button mushroom, curling in the cherry blood that ran into the comers of the slate. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Other doctors claimed that Lister's method made no difference in wound healing. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The war wounded came to the hospital but convalesced on two other floors he had no access to. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I go as quickly as I can, for the blood from Kat’s wound drips to the ground. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s got a bandage wound around his head to stop blood seeping from a severed ear. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Some of the wounded people kept saying that Kabati was next on the rebels’ list. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The men cannot overtake the wounded beasts which fly in their pain, their wide open mouths full of anguish. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The street’s clear except for the people hauling the wounded to the hospital. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She was as pleased as I was disappointed that the edges of the wound had begun to clot. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or have I touched some deep fear within her, some wound or scar? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He didn’t kill himself because of a single overwhelming problem; he died from a thousand tiny wounds. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In despair I wound the rags about me again. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wound around into the academic quad, and all I could think about was how much Javi didn’t like Ethan and how stupid I’d been to let myself be alone with him. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted his hand tentatively from the wounded frog. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Then he entered in haste, and made a bed of furs that he took out of an old chest, and built up a fife, and cleaned Therem’s wounds and bound them. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes automatically searched for the wound, for the area under attack. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up his black cloak and folded it carefully lengthwise into four, after which he wound it round his left hand and forearm as a protection. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the resulting gunfight, six more were killed or wounded. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I do worry about caring for the wound,” I said. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A family of stoats wove and wound their way to the water to drink. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then, the copious blood from my wound trickled down toward the hole. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The king lies wounded and near to death." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The North Koreans had shown no mercy, even to wounded men who could do no harm. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

My wounds recovering, my mind still a bit foggy from the venom, and the warmth of Rue at my side, her head cradled on my shoulder, have given me a sense of security. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Either way, I suppose, we wound up at the school. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath his painted vest, a plaster of fig leaves and caked blue mud covered the wound on his breast. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He had jumped to the conclusion that the blood had come from a wounded knight—otherwise why should she have insisted on having them in the antechamber? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I am wounded,’ he answered, ‘wounded; it will never really heal.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The beast grasped the stake, pulled it out of his eye socket, and cried out, a wounded, demented howl that raised the hair on the back of my neck. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Seven naked little pink creatures lay all wound up together with closed eyes and ears standing up and long whiskers sticking out and little pointed noses and tiny strings of tails. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

As school wound down for the day, Shin’s teacher surprised him. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I was tying a handkerchief around his arm, which had been wounded by shrapnel. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The zero of a black hole is a singularity, an open wound in the fabric of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A trickle of bright blood wound down my left arm. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Squeeze, so the healing juices may enter the wound.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

How will I bandage the wounds with no one to help me? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We are able to bring in most of the wounded that do not lie too far off. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jet black hairs wound themselves around bars of soap. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was bleeding freely from a wound at his neck, and panting heavily. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Obviously, the wound was still bothering her, but she saw my expression and rolled her eyes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It is, I suppose, the reaction from the haunting fear which I have had: that this terrible affair and the reopening of his old wound might act detrimentally on Jonathan. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In that day pus was thought to be benign, a proof that a wound was healing properly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Davai!” yelled a guard, grabbing the man who wound his watch. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

That same woman came in the store every day; once, I saw her take a small bite of an apple and then put it back with its copper- mouthed wound facing down. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. A short, stubby key with black tape wound around it.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was the moon that loosened the bindings on the night and the secret wounds held so close. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

At one point in the late afternoon an unidentified boy dashed onto the shooting field and retrieved a wounded pigeon. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

It couldn’t all be spillover from the chest—there must be another wound. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I wound him through the forest until I was dizzy and he was lost, then headed for the road. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buckthorn was wounded in the face and Strawberry was shivering and evidently ill from exhaustion. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was slashed, black oil dripping into his eyes instead of blood, but the wounds were already closing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They would attend to their evening tasks, preparing for the return of the village men, who would need food and fire and the wrapping of wounds. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The daemon’s voice was fainter, and a groan came from the wounded man. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

One of them had wound its tail around his arm. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You have the battle wounds of Ezili-Danto,” I whisper into her ear. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Why would the Republic give you those wounds, Day? Why would they want to damage someone who got a perfect fifteen hundred on his Trial score?” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Eventually I wound up running our household, or maybe our barnhold is a better word. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stewart told us to go to each hut and pick out the wounded who looked most like they were going to live and get them ready for evacuation. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom is wound up like a fidget spinner. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Then the young man smiled and said, “Did you bind up my wounds in order to kill me, Stokven?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of people were killed and hundreds were wounded in pitched battles with machine guns, pistols, and rifles. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘It was this accursed knife that gave the wound. Few now have the skill in healing to match such evil weapons. But I will do what I can.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the next floor below are the abdominal and spine cases, head wounds and double amputations. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Word drifted back that there had been a terrible dynamite blast in one of the quarries that had killed twelve convicts and wounded several others. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Ophie and her mother traveled from Atlanta to Washington, DC, on the Birmingham Special, Pennsy enfolding the wounded pair in the embrace of her passenger car seats, the dead took notice. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Once he had settled down some, I checked his wound. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I tried not to think about the word wounded, which of course is a way of thinking about it. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Farther back came the baggage train—lumbering wayns laden with provisions and loot taken in the war, and carts crowded with wounded men and cripples. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“One of your patients—the one with a shrapnel wound and a damaged ear.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She was scarred, as if by untended wounds, and one arm was held crookedly, so that it was awkward for her to do things. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

They learned to hug them, kiss them, and fondle them until they wound up genuinely loving them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wound through the trees and did not follow any ordinary trail that had been broken in by hunters or the deer they chased. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some damage and some wounds, but all minor.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The wound throbbed uncomfortably, each beat precise and tight. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The wound was sewn up and bandaged with a clean white cloth. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now we were alone together and I felt that I had to heal the wound Mary had made. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If Lincoln had been stabbed, how could he stitch the wounds without needle and thread? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they got there, Reggie, for the first time, walked through what he remembered had happened, and told Britney the details he remembered, showed her where his car wound up. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He almost made it back to the chopper with the wounded man cradled in his arms. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Bronn had yanked back the man's head by the hair and driven the point of his dirk in under the ear, and afterward told Catelyn Stark that the other sellsword had died of his wound. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My wound cried out and so did my judgment. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Too many of our friends lay wounded in the streets. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The river wound into the dark forest, cutting its serpentine route into the unknown. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s the dizzying pain from my wound that makes me reckless. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Indeed. Your fame is spreading, children. And Jacob, you heal mortal wounds with just your hands, some plants, and a prayer. Is this not unique?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He took apart light bulbs; he took apart the electric outlets on the wall to see how the wires inside wound together and, in the process, got a painful, vibrating jolt all through his body. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He walked across to the dressing station, stepping carefully among the wounded. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He looked like a mad man, with his long legs sticking out beneath the short robe and his head wound in a turban. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Chicago riot, 38 people of both races died, all of them men; 537 more were wounded. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It was a very small wound,” he explained. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

White-hot pain was spreading slowly and steadily from the wound. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Whiskers launched himself straight up and ran off under the shack to lick his wounds. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Just saying those words was like clawing open a wound. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’m naked except for a thin nightgown, so I slip the syringe under the bandage that covers the wound on my arm. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our victory was also purchased at an awful cost in American casualties: 6,821 Marines were killed and another 19,207 were wounded. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a valley through which a broad, swift river wound its way, flowing eastward toward the sun. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The injured man tried to thank them, but a nurse told them to move so she could take the man’s vital signs and check his wounds. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I have shot a griffin and the Wart has been wounded.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning Serafina dressed his wound again, and he tried to see from her expression whether it was healing, but her face was calm and impassive. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shouted, and began to stagger as if I was wounded in action. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The memory of Day bound to his chair, agonizing over his wounded leg, makes me both angry and confused. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“One platoon lost one man, got six wounded. ” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grinned, watching the blue sparks of fairy magic seal her wounds. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was like looking into the eyes of wounded prey-staring back at a predator. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He kept darting onto the field to chase wounded pigeons, only to be chased away himself by the real wringers. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

At 8:30 that night, a fresh dressing was put on his wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was trying to keep me from becoming like my brother who wound up in prison. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Buttercup ripped her clothes into patches and ties, and they worked at the wound, caking the blood with mud from the floor of the Fire Swamp, then bandaging and rebandaging over it. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She trembled so badly that her wounds leaked further. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He looks wounded, like I just kicked him in the balls. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Many of the wounded have their shattered limbs hanging free in the air from a gallows; underneath the wound a basin is placed into which drips the pus. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sits in a chair between a few of the bunks, her wounded leg stuck out in front of her. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Or he might possibly pretend to be mortally wounded himself, might drag himself groaning to her door. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

After one particularly violent incident, my seven-year-old dad took the bus to fetch his father at work so that he could hurry home and tend to my grandmother's bloody wounds. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I put the bowl of bread pudding into a basket, tied on my cloak, and wound up my hands in rags to keep the frost from biting. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Badly wounded and shocked, the survivors on the roadway tried to crawl back to the safety of the ditch, only to be buried beneath rubble which thundered down on them. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When he was done he put away the clamp and taped gauze over the wound and then stood and pulled his trousers up and handed the kit to the boy to put away. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Are you quite well? They told me you were wounded on the Isonzo. I hope you are well again.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I haven’t even asked. You seemed well. How is your wound?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It is bad enough when the cane lands on fresh skin, but when it comes down on bruised and wounded flesh, the agony is unbelievable. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wound the stopped Omega up and set the time to a fraction after three. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

"I think your wound is bleeding again. Come on, lie down, it's bedtime anyway," he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I was wounded in the leg. That’s what I’m in the hospital for.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are wide and her body is wound with tension. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Since he’s not underwater, the poison comes out of his wounds just as it went in, in wisps of fog that I take great care to steer clear of. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Above them wound a lovely and peaceful lane lined with pomegranate trees. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This drug-resistant type of malaria began to appear among U.S. troops during the Vietnam War, in which more soldiers were incapacitated by the disease than by battle wounds. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

At least Tori and I will recover from our wounds. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mia gave up eventually and wound noodles and tuna around her fork. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wound up studying sociology at Princeton and then becoming a professor at Stanford. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Giti was a tightly wound, bony little girl who wore her hair in twin ponytails held by elastic bands. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Very difficult to obtain. Very good for wounds.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And not until he had returned to Pianosa, his business in Rome completed, did he seek medical attention for his wound. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The victim had to lower his trousers in order to exhibit the wound, which amounted to little more than an angry red welt located just to the right of his crack. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They eventually wound up in a long room that opened out on to a balcony. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pressed my thumb to the wounded area to try to stop the bleeding. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as my physical wounds were better I was shipped back to the line. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They slipped out of the kitchen and down a narrow passage-way to an uneven staircase, which wound its way, zigzagging up through the house. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I made a little boot of leather and put it on her wounded foot. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was still a certain amount of shelling, he said, but not many wounded. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Dies of his wounds, June 1914, at the age of eighty-three. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wound had healed but it was still painful. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath, the kind Audrey used to tell me to take when I got wound up. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“The congregation, Minister, will tell you what it thinks, and what it wants you to think,” said Mr. Stonecrop, and the words wound like barbed wire around the Buckminsters. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

If I’m scarred, then they’re war wounds, and I will not cower from them. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Rats never stopped eating our palms and feet, and we often were unable to walk or handle anything for days because both areas were like open wounds. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite his wounds, Herbert fought wildly and somehow managed to break away. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed down a path to their left that wound into the bushes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Little by little, one small portion of a limb at a time, I soak the poison out of my wounds. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Honorata sat on her bed, eyes dark and unreadable, lipstick smeared like a wound. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I am, in fact, wounded. My constitution has been destroyed by the enemy. The enemy is the sea.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

After Tonya had managed to land her plane safely, she and her crew had come to the same place to get their wounds treated. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The blood streams from a wound on his ear—the top of his ear is gone. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly, she rushes over to me and tends to my wound. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wound himself in and about her legs. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We could send in trains ourselves. Help evacuate the wounded,” I say. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Although he had reached a high stage of self-discipline and bore his last wound well, he now felt as if these ordinary people were his brothers. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again he was in his wounded body on an island prison. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Leader could see that Kira had had problems the first day, when Forest had punctured and wounded her. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

My eyes drop to the gaping wound in his stomach, a wound I put there nine years ago. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He paused there, hands on the wet iron railing, looking out across the black water while his dæmon wound herself round his legs, pretending to pester for attention but really watching every movement behind them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Once, I had helped prepare the body of a man who had suffered a gunshot wound to the head. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I make him lie down before I probe his wound. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Gunshots rang out, and one of the white boys hit his mark, wounding Lieutenant Browning in his leg. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As she bandaged his wound, she said, “Frank, you were amazing. Completely terrifying, but amazing.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Put some pressure on that wound,” Fox said. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The brown waters of the River of the Carp wound their way southward to the orchards of my uncles. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t let wounds take your focus out here. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Civil rights advocates offered no balm for the wound, publicly resisting calls for class-based affirmative action and dismissing claims of unfairness on the grounds that whites had been enjoying racial preferences for hundreds of years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the maple tree died, and he wound up back here?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There were more wounds than she could count. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Pax shook off the blood from a dozen superficial scratches and then cleaned Gray’s wound. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They managed to put an hour’s slow walk between themselves and what remained of their attackers before Con insisted they stop to tend Shae’s wound. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Many years later, Bobby indicated that during those speed games Petrosian’s style of play had bored him “to death,” and that was why he’d wound up losing more than he won. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Time would darken the half-moon wound into Roy’s dark skin, but nothing would bring together again the so violently divided eyebrow. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Catelyn was sorry she had wounded him, but the matter was too important for her to concern herself with his pride. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Not with Annie watching him like some kind of wounded puppy. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“War wound,” Basil muttered as he demolished a plateful of quince and elderberry pie. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It had taken two baths and an entire bar of soap to get the tar off her aching hands and feet, and Philippa had spent thirty minutes cleaning out and binding the wounds on each. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Well, it all wound up about like I figured. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bran felt the pain of the old wound whenever he slipped inside the big wolf’s skin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

These were the privileged passengers who would have priority boarding with the officers and wounded. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Dr. Craven had cut her hair away from the wound and bound her head in a proper bandage, but she took it off. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then I would remember everything, like a wound ripping open. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was still a fresh wound, just a couple of seasons mended. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The massacres had happened over two hundred years ago, but the wound they’d made in our cultural history was left raw and festering, like a fault line that may begin trembling again at any moment. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Annabeth didn’t look much better from fighting with a bad shoulder wound. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Had he set it right, was it wound up enough, was the alarm button pulled out? The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The wound will close. Eventually. But it’ll leave a nasty scar.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Next they said he was alive but gravely wounded. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He lifts a hand, and I barely feel it when his fingers brush the skin near my wound. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her toes only brushed the ground as blood spurted from the wound at her side. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Olanna placed it over her head and wound it round her neck. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The fighting lasted two days and two nights, and, when it was over, 4,500 boys lay dead or wounded. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But he has lost something along with the leg that a soldier sometimes loses with the big wounds. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dodged the reporters shouting questions and found a place with Faizah to lick my wounds. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And as in the Hemingway story, if your wounds aren't too bad, it works. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other places there were the dry sticks of some sort of climbing plant which had wound itself round the pillars and helped to pull some of them down. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Why did they kill the soldiers? They were wounded. They couldn’t fight! Weren’t they supposed to be prisoners of war or something?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Strangely enough, even though Mother has wounded me thousands of times, this particular wound still stings whenever I think of how angry I was. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I crash into the trees, repeatedly swiping away the blood that's pouring into my eye, fleeing like the wild, wounded creature I am. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They believed that probing the wound was more harmful than the bullet itself. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There were plenty more dead marines on the beach now, and plenty more of the wounded, too, and the men behind the seawall tried not to listen when they moaned or called out for help. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It worked—I wound up in that class. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the wounds that kept us bent, that tugged at our shoulders, so much as it was the fatigue. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I touch my wounded hand to the hilt of my silver sword, the sword my father forged. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Hitler was wounded by a time bomb in a briefcase placed under a conference table; he might have been killed if the case had been placed slightly closer to the chair where he was sitting. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Boy," he said, "I understand that you not only carried Mr. Norton out to the Quarters but that you wound up at that sinkhole, that Golden Day." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse Helms’s television editorial that evening was salt in the wounds of black North Carolinians. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still that does not reassure me: wounds don’t hurt till afterwards. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even after I’d polished them clean by rubbing them in the sand, I generally wound up with several stickers in my mouth. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

A coyote that seemed pretty tame lived with us for a while, and once Dad brought home a wounded buzzard that we named Buster. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, the wound is just a blotch against her skin, and then blood pours out, a river of red. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She threw wide its doors and wound it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even if she was wound up, she’d eventually fall asleep on my lap, her face mashed into my shoulder, arms limp, mouth drooling. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The story at the Albemarle was simple, it told itself, really: suicidal Henry, struggle for the gun, leaving me wounded and him dead. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Add which had not been carefully mowed, the string became wound round thistles or tufts of gram, thus checking the hawk and doing damage to its training. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fairies busily healed one another, mending wings and closing wounds. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

"The Stark boy proved more cautious than I expected for one of his years," Lord Tywin admitted, "but a victory is a victory. You appear to be wounded." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And while the man was dressing the wound, Lyra felt Pantalaimon calling to her silently to come and look out the window. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

By winning, Bobby not only extracted the first drop of his opponent’s blood, he ensured that the wound would not soon close up. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"But I shall! Next time! I've got to get a barb on this spear! We wounded a pig and the spear fell out" "We need shelters." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I saw the bullet wound in his chest every morning when he got out of the shower, like a tiny crater or a third nipple, a symbol of near death. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Tamika’s hand touched my shoulder, her voice no longer poking at my wounds. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Jody ate a little of it, and, when it was dark, he set the lantern on the floor by the pony’s head so he could watch the wound and keep it open. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Garfield was placed on his right side so that the bloody discharge could drain from the wound more easily. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The bullet wound itself is just a round, red circle in Lynn’s skin, but surrounding it is what looks like a bruise. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The wound itself was burned black as if the iron had scorched Elowen’s flesh, and Kaede had to swallow her nausea as she wiped the blade on the very edge of Elowen’s ermine cloak. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Beyond its stony course they saw a beaten path that wound its way under the feet of the westward cliffs. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And I suppose it does make him look tougher, because Rowdy never tries to hide his wounds. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wrapped my wrists in white gauze and believed wounds needed attention. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He asked God to bless all the guys that had been killed and wounded, and to protect all of us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yikes. I’m pretty sure I could clean a wound with that.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Her whole body was worn out, but she was too tightly wound to rest. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

One by one, they dropped into a tin can with a dull plink, and the surgeon then began sewing up the wound. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

As the wounded Garfield was being transferred to the White House by ambulance, police were driving the handcuffed Guiteau to the District of Columbia jail, the same one he had visited. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even the fauns were invited, since they’d helped out by bandaging the wounded after the battle. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Harry suggested, trying not to imagine how badly wounded a man would have to be to leave those stains spattered halfway up the walls. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Taft inserts his index finger into the wound and pronounces that it has penetrated beyond the length of his fingertip. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

People trod over numbed bodies, trampled wounded faces. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chubs pressed his own hands against the wound, his eyes wide and unblinking. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

From inside came the groans and shouts of wounded men. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And slowly the wound began to grow numb I dreamed I was walking through the forest with plain-faced Laclith, the woodsman who had traveled with our troupe when I was younger. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The line wound outside, but only Fern hopped from one foot to the other or said, “Gotta, gotta,” so I pulled Fern past the line and inside the bathroom. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The Dragon King had spread his left wing outward to reveal the wound in his side. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the field the wounded flying machine bounced haplessly over the unmown grass for thirty yards. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Jenkins’ face was white and twisted as he struggled to look down at his wound. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor looked at the X rays and then at the wound. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His neck was bandaged where he had taken a wound. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Eventually old man Gusdorf had gotten royally skinned when the bottom fell out of cotton, and he wound up relegated to a sharecropper’s role forever after. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young dog nosed his friend all over, his lips wrinkling at the rank bear smell, then attempted to stanch the wounds with his rough tongue. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trail wound deeper and deeper into the forest, mostly east as far as I could tell. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It opened easily, and she smeared the healing paste thickly on her wound. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At least half of the crowd is wounded in some way. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

As wounds go, it was not serious; in fact while I sat there looking the bleeding virtually stopped. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I understood that she had just accepted my father’s private wound. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The adjutant, looking up from the paper, “What inflicted the wounds?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was his job to put the wounded pigeons out of their misery. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

My chest wound has opened again, and I try to ignore the blood dripping down my front. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

From the backs of receding lorries the conscious wounded stared out blankly. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The flatboat dragged along the little deep-rutted roads that wound through the bush. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Until then she must see that her son was securely guarded in his chamber where he was still suffering from his wound. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every one of them would have a story,” recalls Mosbacher, who wound up at the track after running away from an impoverished home. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d been friends for so long, but his wounds were still raw. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Denna led the way along the dirt track that wound back and forth up the side of the hill, between the trees and the occasional outcrop of worn, dark stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His fingers were wound up in the fabric. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pax bent to Runt’s wound and licked it cautiously, wary of Bristle’s reaction. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ear’s wounds healed until you could hardly see a mark, unless he opened his ears wide, and only then with the sun behind them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He held his hands to the gaping, bloody wound at his chest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor realized the ability to heal battle wounds was probably important if you lived down here. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Caught in the cross fire are the refugees, unarmed, disoriented, many wounded. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Once we got past Doheny and wound through Pacific Palisades, Sunset slid into Pacific Coast Highway and the ocean majestically came into view. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I hoped it would blow over, but Dad was so hurt that I hadn’t mentioned homeschooling in my interviews that this new wound festered. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Arul wound your new doll’s hair around one of his wrists like a handcuff. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But I do see now why it was no accident that I later wound up as a sub-editor with a literal blue pencil. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Can I see you try it, Tris? I don’t think I’ve ever really seen you shoot something without a bullet wound in your shoulder.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“But we wouldn’t want to do that. You’re too pretty. So can you confirm, then, the name of your patient with the shrapnel wound and damaged ear?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was concealing the fact that I was a wounded sonuvabitch. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Around a peeled twig Ten Snow had wound a long length of the finest sinew thread to use in beading. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He stumbled about the house for days like one of the walking wounded. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They found that if they cleaned an infected wound with chemicals such as carbolic acid, bromine, nitric acid, and iodine, they could sometimes heal it. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then, one at a time, he inserted two different metal probes about three inches deep into the wound, moving each around inside Garfield's body in an attempt to locate the bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The gutted structure crouches like a wounded animal amid a labyrinth of crumbling dwellings. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Papa didn’t need to rub any more salt in Uncle Abdullah’s wounds by reminding him that Usman, who was several years older than me, lagged far behind me in his studies. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d have a big bruise, but the wound wasn’t too bad. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A temporary dressing was applied, but neither the wound nor the skin around it was cleaned or disinfected. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A light snow began falling as the car wound its way up a narrow dirt road carved into the side of a mesa. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Mami now says we're not going back, not for a long time, not till the wounds in our hearts have healed. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Growing prettier every day, but I do believe I poked a wound. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the child-like cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mami would rush him to a clinic, where the wound was once again scraped and dressed in bandages. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The pain of my wounded leg reclaims me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

For weeks they continued, festering like an open wound, and I, without an effective way of nursing them, simply withdrew into myself, and shut myself from the rest of the world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

To see what other old wounds he was hiding. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In the closet they were on hangers; in the drawers they were folded flat, or wound tightly like thick scrolls. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, he was an empathic and patient listener, coaxing each of us through the maze of our feelings, separating out our weapons from our wounds. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the couple of seconds has sufficed to give us five stomach wounds. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled out a foot or more of the thread, wound it quickly around one of two iron hooks, and rehung the hooks into the last row of woven cloth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

After a time, they dug carefully to broaden the run and as the day wore on the does, each in turn, remained beside him, licking his wounds and listening to his low, unsteady breathing. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father cleans the skin around my wound with something cold. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Quietly I took off my shirt and looked at the wound. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘No. He was wounded in that first volley. He got it pretty bad.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some he killed, some he wounded, and some went away, but always there were more. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He fell, she says, not as one wounded, “but in the fire of battle.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

After all he had done for King and his movement, he felt deeply wounded by King’s betrayal. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“From the look of his wounds, they swarmed him from all sides. He was found with an empty scabbard. It may be that he wounded some of his attackers.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In Russia, they saw the horrors of war as they tended the wounded and dying German soldiers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered what Aphrodite had told her: It’s not just his sword wound, my dear. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His wounds had healed, though his golden skin had lost some of its luster. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He has noticed that Lincoln is visibly more comfortable when the wound is unclogged. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were on the top of a sloping bank, and the Road, now dim as evening drew on, wound away below them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Black blood was flowing from the wound where the spear had pierced him, smoking where it dripped onto the scorched sands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She wanted to be home when Richie and I finished school every afternoon, and she wound up getting a job as an elementary school teacher in Central Bucks School District in the neighboring county. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Because all the surgeons had testified that the bullet wound was mortal, Cox said, doctor malpractice was not an issue in determining the defendant's guilt. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thanks to Mrs. Weasley’s ministrations, George’s wound was neat and clean, but Harry was not yet used to the dark hole in the side of his head, despite the twins’ many jokes about it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I hope he’s home, nursing that wound I gave him. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He lay in wait for his father and wounded him terribly. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wound, he saw now,was not nearly as large as a football, but as long and wide as his hand and too raw and deep to see into clearly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Quickly he covered the whole wound with a large cotton compress and jerked his hand away. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Tuve’s version was made from copper and wire wound about a hollow three-foot glass tube submerged in a pressurized vat of oil to suppress sparking. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I'm on my knees, desperately plastering the bandage back onto his wound. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When the sky was as light as it ever got during that fog, I ventured to look out, and I saw a great figure lying wounded by the spring. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kwadzo died one morning, probably from his untreated wound, Amari thought, or maybe from his untreated sorrow, but she could not mourn his loss. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike Civil War surgeons who used antiseptic chemicals after a wound became infected, Lister's goal was to kill microbes in wounds before they caused an infection. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She whisked her limp brown curls off her shoulders and wound them quickly into a bun, exactly the way she’d done every morning for the past eleven years. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He was laced with fresh wounds—cuts and bruises on his legs and arms, across his bare back. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The nail on her pinkie just barely touched the wound behind his ear. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

There was also a little package of hair barrettes with the same polka-dot ribbon wound through them, which were for me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were maggots in her wounds and a sticky yellow liquid. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve crossed into the Arctic Circle,” announced the man who wound his watch. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

During the Battle of Manhattan, Nico had seen him in action - the camp’s best combat medic, risking his life to save wounded campers. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She wound it around her head, deftly, smoothly, and then tied it in place, pulling the knots tight and hard. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat, a tiny thing with brown and gray stripes, wound around Roza’s legs, joined her in the pile of hay, curling up next to her face, breathing the same breath. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Celia looked wounded and outraged at the same time, her mouth hanging open. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I wash the blood out of my jacket and hair and clean my ever-growing list of wounds. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“But what—what—Are you wounded?” asked Bluebell in bewilderment. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fierce argument was going on and the wounded savage kept groaning. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Finally he looks at the big, ugly wound on Shiloh’s hurt leg, torn open right to the bone, the bites around Shiloh’s neck, and the ripped ear. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie brushed out her long hair, braided it and wound the braids around her head. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

No other blade, not though mightier hands had wielded it, would have dealt that foe a wound so bitter, cleaving the undead flesh, breaking the spell that knit his unseen sinews to his will. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The flare of flame revealed them all briefly, old wounds and new. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She pulled up her ratty sleeve to reveal a circular wound near her shoulder, scabbed over but looking poorly cared for. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I heard Bull chuckling as he followed his wounded friend back to the road. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Alice was walking on a road that wound through the pine forest. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Have you been wearing those clothes since you were wounded?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We will just need to keep you for a few extra days, but by then the wound should be all healed and we’ll send you on your way. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

All morning Jody kept the wound open and the air passing in and out freely. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dusty cloud behind them, Riker scrambled to his feet, clutching his wounded shoulder. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Another wounded zebra turns and smiles at me. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Within minutes of pressing the handful of chewed-up green stuff into the wound, pus begins running down the side of his leg. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Check in,” he whispered into the mike that wound snakelike from his helmet. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Finally, to repeat what we were all told in Britain,” added Ronneberg, “if any man is wounded, or about to be taken prisoner, he ends his own life.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave Brandon my favor to wear, and never comforted Petyr once after be was wounded, nor bid him farewell when Father sent him off. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He walked with a limp, and he had the ball that wounded him on a string around his neck. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached the camp, a wounded man who had remained there asked what had happened. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: How long do you think it will take for the wounds to heal? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We fought and he got away, though the dæmon is wounded. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

"With those wounds . . . terrible wounds . . . there should be blood all over. Shouldn't there?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The children whimper like wounded dogs and cluster Together for comfort. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“We all have wounds from that war. But now Osama has turned against the United States.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Most of Alice’s wounds were new, and the cloth came away from them easily. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the wounds had scabbed or remained as thin white lines, though her back retained most of its damage. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A woman spoke, and the sound of the voice wound Harry’s fear to an even higher pitch. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There was a tremendous wound on the back. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind a rack of framed photos of Snow, we encounter a wounded Peacekeeper propped against a strip of brick wall. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Now Sean cleaned out the wound, numbed Finn’s face with a shot, and sewed it up with a vicious curved needle clamped in what looked like a pair of scissors. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

His legs were as tight as wound springs. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wounds were deep, and he could see exposed muscles and tendons glisten yellow and pink in a devastating kind of beauty where the ragged flesh gaped open. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Someone must have stood there and stabbed him again and again. How many wounds are there exactly?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lifted him in her soft arms, but Diomedes, knowing she was a coward goddess, not one of those who like Athena are masters where warriors fight, leaped toward her and wounded her hand. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She points to her wound, which is oozy, and clearly needs redressing. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He pried open her bleeding hand and drove his thumb into the slash of her open wound. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But there it was under the social fabric, the raw wound. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Very carefully and kindly, and with the best intentions, she wound the creance up quite wrong. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sixty-six days after he fell wounded onto the floor of the Baltimore and Potomac station, James Garfield would leave Washington. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A waterfall rushed off one cliff and fed a river that wound its way through a great meadow in the center of the island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The bandage sticks to my arm as I peel it off, the wound healing into the cloth itself. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The gray-haired man who wound his watch stood in the corner. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we played War and lined up the beds for the wounded. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rent Paris’ tunic, but did not wound him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew I had nowhere to go for the winter vacation and enjoyed rubbing salt in my wounds. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And he wound up and hit her hard across the face. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“How, my lord? The old wounds never heal, my father says.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The men now call him Slant, which would be wounding, were it not exclaimed with such an achievement in the “Liberty” that the “Slant” might be righted with balance and equanimity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Billy, after all, had contemplated torture and hideous wounds at the beginning and the end of nearly every day of his childhood. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rode off along a path that wound away from behind the house, and went slanting up towards the north end of the hill-brow under which it sheltered. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then he ordered Pippin and Merry to heat as much water as they could in their small kettles, and to bathe the wound with it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The wound is healed,” he said, “I am whole, I am free.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t recall if Miss Sadie told the rest of the story to me as I cleaned her wound, or if I told it to her through what I’d pieced together on my own. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She cleaned an area six inches back, working her way right round the wound. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I used a sleeve to wipe the sand from the belly wound. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

When an officer asked a wounded boy whether he suffered any pain, the boy replied, “Yes, but this is not important. Germany must be victorious.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were embarrassed by their play, wounded by their coach’s comments, unsure what to do next. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The straightforward amputations were flown right to Japan for treatment in the modern hospital, but the more severely wounded had to be stabilized for the trip over. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

A soldier with a bloody chest wound reclined in an ancient pram pushed by his mates. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“That’s probably a blessing for whatever dog might have wound up as your companion.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Now I’m going to teach you something. This is called ponya seed, and when you mash it into a paste, it’s a great treatment for wounds.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to see the bullet wound. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

As the maester knelt to examine the wound, Bran turned his head. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Each time she awoke feeling torn up with loss, the sight of Kaede departing as painful as a fresh wound. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

On his belt hung a neatly wound whip and a niello sheath for the dagger in his hand. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Strawberry gave a kind of choking squeal, as though he had been wounded. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he covered the open wound with a temporary graft of pig skin. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Nine gold cloaks had been slain, two score wounded. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“No poultice in the world could heal wounds like this. And yet I didn’t get a visit from an Augur. Only you.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He felt every step—the rub of his wet socks in his shoes, the burn of his wounded leg, the ache in his hand—but he also felt more himself than he ever had before. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He and Harry were building a little fence of sharp poles clear around the house, weaving it together with willow boughs that crissed and crossed and wound together. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

His throat was hurting him now though it had received no wound. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Papa was standing in the front yard, near an orange tree, screaming at a wrinkled old man in a tom white singlet and a wrapper wound round his waist. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up, and he noticed, first, that her eyes were swollen and raw, and then he saw the wounded rage in them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Pulling off the towels, he revealed an unmarked cardboard box wound with tape. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked toward the stage and stood right in front of him, letting him see the wound, her red and seething insides, the place where her fury pulsed, where her fire lived. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

James Garfield suffered through multiple surgeries as his doctors tried and failed to treat his gunshot wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

With each bottle I pour over him, the worse the wound looks. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The wound in his chef’s apron started to heal. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The two diagonals of the words “tres important” and “faire suivre” meet on the envelope at a point, an arrowhead—giving an impression of flight, purpose, urgency—or an impending wound. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The wounds on the backs of her heels pulse. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

An arc of gushing puncture wounds encircled her thumb, and she swayed on her feet as she shoved the ridderak off her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He walked silently through the underbrush while I kicked up more noise than a wounded ox dragging an overturned cart. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The pony still lay on his side and the wound in his throat bellowsed in and out. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s jab our thumbs down inside his wound and gouge it,” suggested the hatchet-faced man. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Now I had to help Rufus tear her wounds open again. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Anya peeked under her hand to look at the wound on her arm. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

As the face was exposed I could see that it was horribly bruised, as though it had been beaten against the floor—indeed it was from the face wounds that the pool of blood originated. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The only thing sharp about the weed digger were the points at the end, so she would have to go with a puncture wound. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Uri wound up and flung the club far into the rubble, and the Flop groaned in the snow in his underwear, and once again there were no eyes on the other side of the street. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

There was a knight from Hungary called Sir Urre, who had received wounds in a tournament seven years before. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gale’s not supposed to visit me, as he’s confined to bed with some kind of shoulder wound. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

What other explanation of his wounds can there be? Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain said, “Get a surgeon to look at that wound.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled her old Mac laptop out of the drawer and wound up the power cord. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He said there was so much dirt blown into the wound that there had not been much hemorrhage. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Tori and Harrison come to the lobby after a while, Tori limping toward a chair—I almost forgot about her bullet wound again; she was so nimble when she killed , Jeanine—and Harrison following her. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The nature of the wounds—each inflicted by a different person. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spurge shrieked and pranced desperately, trying to avoid wounds. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I take up the wounded leg carefully, then he gives a jump and I take the knee of the sound leg also under my arm. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wound up his story by pausing and staring at the lectern for a count of ten; then he looked up frankly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

This was François’s speech next morning when he discovered Spitz missing and Buck covered with wounds. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Frodo left the barrow for the last time he thought he saw a severed hand wriggling still, like a wounded spider, in a heap of fallen earth. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A medic on the chopper looked for Lieutenant Carroll’s wound, but couldn’t find it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He screamed but kept digging at the wound. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bedlow marched her over to the hospital after dinner where a doctor cruelly gouged her leg and poured a mysterious liquid directly into the wound. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The last one, in which you argued that the boy wouldn’t have made the kind of overhand stab wound that killed his father, was very persuasive. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were bodies around me, some crying out in pain, others shaking in fear, others trying to help the wounded. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even while living in the Chelsea Hotel while waiting for my sentencing, I spent more time looking into the mirror at my wounded face than I did into my notebook. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

For a moment he saw the pain underneath, raw and bloody, like a wound too deep for healing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to go do something useful. I don’t suppose you would allow some of us to come in here and tend to these wounded?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They examined me: they looked at the wound on mv head, at mv hands, at my fingernails. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miyax petted his head and told him in Eskimo to lie still while she looked at his wound. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wounded whiteness gleamed open in the moon. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you understand what happened when you stabbed your knee with that knife and then closed and cured the wound with your hands?” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He looked down the hill towards the light of the closed shops, then up the street, where the last high houses wound up the hill on their way to the darkness of the old graveyard. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Nine of them, he wound up declaring, as if it was a certainty, were going to be on the medal podium in Berlin in 1936. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the most succinct way to put it is that Washington was leaving office not just because he was hearing whispers of mortality,but also because he was wounded. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He saw the engine rooms and the boiler rooms, and wound up on the third-class recreation deck. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Labrador lay down beside him and licked the wounded shoulder. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned so I couldn’t see the wounded side of her face. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

After a while the long, jagged wounds bled again as they slowly became clean. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he flicked his hand at me, and blood flew from an open wound and struck me here, on the chest.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it is a child, but who brought it here? And is it wounded?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

This was not the first wound he had received while in fusion with Mercer, and it probably would not be the last. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

They may be hungry, wounded, heartsick at the death of comrades, but they forget everything when they see him, and they break into cheers as if this hero had brought them nothing but pure joy. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked back into the cave and Minli poured water on the wounds to clean them. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Paxter Redwyne, Lord of the Arbor, marched down the length of the hall flanked by his twin sons Horror and Slobber, the former limping from a wound taken in the battle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was cut up and hobbling from so many wounds, but all we’d done was slow him down and make him mad. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Doha’s father tried to speak on their behalf, he was told to focus on the care of the KPA wounded, or he would be arrested also. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“That doesn’t matter. Look how you are wounded. Look at your valorous conduct in asking to go always to the first line. Besides, the operation was successful.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was hardly a single demigod who hadn’t already been wounded ... except me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Wall wound Stagehand up to top speed, his eyes fixed on Woolf’s back. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we’d helped clean and dress his wound, we sat down to examine the book. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The road wound away before them like a piece of string. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Every step is pain, every ounce of weight pulls at the wound, making me lightheaded and nauseous. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We both wound up moving to New York, where over time we developed what currently passes for a casual friendship. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It takes me a moment to remember the second, much shorter strand that Beetee wound around a branch and left on the ground before he even began his design on the tree. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Carter’s wounds ensured that the stories were taken half seriously, but not much more than half. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As he crept into the light, she saw more wounds, scars. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The blind man said that he had first known of it when he was a newcomer to Village, still an invalid with wounds to be tended. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Two weeks earlier, Lilya had been wounded in the shoulder and the leg. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And then, as if taking their cue from the birds, the wounded began to groan and call out, and terrified children began to cry. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

If the wound and the stingers haven't killed him, surely thirst would have taken him by now. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The road wound away from it toward Capricorn's village like a slow-moving snake. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Getting a gunshot wound was bad enough under any circumstances, but even a mild wound in this building might be fatal. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lie down. I want to check the dressing on your wound.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Polyphemus charged into the surf, but his foot was still wounded. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

His wound was healing, his pain was dispersing; his Self had merged into unity. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew immediately that the wound was fatal. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

With fingers that shook, I worked the entrails back into the wound. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mo wound down his window and put his head out, looking concerned. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

This was some version of what my mother would say if we got too wound up about the grouchiness downstairs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Right,” I howled, “because there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded bull pepperoni!” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The only bad wound she had was in her shoulder. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alice was standing in front of the bathroom looking all wounded. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She daubed the ointment onto the wound, picked up his hand, and examined the spidery black knots as if they were a work of art—a painting, a sculpture. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then after a moment he removed his long gown and wound his braid about his head and went out, carrying the tub of water. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

In a matter of seconds the wounded neck split into two necks, each of which grew a full-size head. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Only then did the ladder, wound onto a reel in the airlock, let him go. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You see, these two wounds—here and here,”—he pointed. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not sure. A boy and girl helped me get out of the Skiz chaos. The girl bandaged up my wound. I’m staying with them temporarily until I can walk better.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But when the auction finally ended, the tablet wound up selling to the Sixers for almost two million credits. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

No matter how much I revealed about myself to her—and I wound up revealing just about everything, including my real name—she always adamantly refused to reveal any details about her own life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Cooter’s ear was getting wound up so tight that he started dancing on one leg trying to get some of the pressure off it. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

His face took on that wounded expression he got whenever the world called his bluff. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I know he is a good one,” added Mrs. March, with decided approval, as she wound up the clock. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

My wounds healed and my father told me to be comforted, for the scars would not be seen until after I had taken a husband. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I had never seen him in anything but the threadbare wrappers that were wound around his body when we visited him. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

As we wound south through the canyon toward Julia’s house, the sun dipped down and the shadows of the mountains stretched their cloaks across the snaking roadway. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The last words were spoken so low she thought he did not hear them, but he did, and they wounded him deeply, for he had denied himself many pleasures for Meg’s sake. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Weasley fell back against her husband and watched Fleur mopping up Bill’s wounds with a most curious expression upon her face. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“We shall heal your wound,” Taran replied, hastily opening a packet of herbs. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure when, or if, anything will ever get better, not sure if these wounds are the kind that can heal. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

"And your breast must be washed and sewn, lest the wound fester." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell her on the way to Metropolitan, man. We got to take you there quick, bro,” I said, and knelt down to check his wound again. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t the wounds. They say his heart give out.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the stray American shell struck the fort, and the wounded howled down in the munitions cellar, and the dead were buried under rocks just above the tide line, and Etienne stopped talking. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I could only stare at Ruth May’s bare left shoulder, where two red puncture wounds stood out like red beads on her flesh. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wound their way through interconnecting tunnels and rough-hewn burial chambers that all looked the same—the walls carved with dusty niches that might once have held bodies. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

All this to soothe Fern’s wounded feelings from always coming in dead last. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A part of me recalls the way he saved me from the Skiz fight, that he had helped me heal this burning wound in my side, that his hands had been so gentle. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe those wounded animals weren’t such good prep after all. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any dead or wounded had been carried away. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They could see no immediate threat from the horde licking their wounds across the meadow. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Their absence is a wound in my chest. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Yes. It may be the blood of Christ’s wounds, or it may be the effect of the hard work she does.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Probably he still had the strength and power to repair his own wounded arms or Kira’s tortured feet. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

One thinks immediately of the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, who after having both his arms lopped off declares, “It’s just a flesh wound.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

After a while, however, my wounds began to heal, and I found that I didn’t cry unexpectedly anymore. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Raptor snarls and the shouts of wounded men still rose from the plaza. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I stare at the water bubbling through the blue glass vase, the shining brass bowl with its wisp of smoke, the long hose wound around with copper wire. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The wounded were left in the lorries to wait. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Iorek could see the face of his old comrade drawn and tight with the pain of his wounds, and see the jagged holes in his garments where the bullets had entered. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As my crying wound down, I let myself be rocked in her breathing. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a major battle nearby, and a number of wounded were brought back to the camp. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kneeling beside her, I held the hot blade to her wound and pierced it, letting all the pain flow out. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Officers and wounded soldiers would also be granted passage. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I lived carrying a huge wound, tender, festering, and I shrank when I came near anything that I thought would touch it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Cooper, a motel clerk, was taken to jail in two pairs of handcuffs with a wound over her right eye. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The solemn procession wound its way through the sacred grove homeward to the castle. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Hazel’s alive. He’s been wounded—it’s hard to tell how badly—but he won’t die.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They flock together like sheep instead of scattering, and even the wounded are shot down like hares by the airmen. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the wounded pigeons were in misery, he wondered, why put them there in the first place by shooting them? Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The dragon twisted violently in the air, wounds smoking, the girl clinging to his back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I had to see the nature of the wounds, you see,” explained the doctor. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the first time I ’membered that right after the ax clipped Pap, I’d took a fast-fast look at his face and the wound. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The music wound along gently, a stroll in the park, but occasional drum bursts and off-kilter chimes from Juan’s guitar gave a sinister edge to it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They wound the entrails of his son around his loins and his hips, tied his knees and legs so tightly he could barely move. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The Confederate flag is stuck to the wound now, so I no longer need to hold it there. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Every time I protested the Vietnam War, I wound up in the same position. Those were the days!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Blue liquid seeped out of a wound in its belly staining the stone floor. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I said I lost my balls! Can’t you hear me? I’m wounded in the groin!” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Kapugen had once told her of a wolf who was wounded by the hoofs of a caribou. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rode that way, leaping wounded, but it had been repulsed when he got there. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father Abbot was tending the wounded in Great Hall, Friar Hugo was constantly sending Cornflower and her helpers back and forth to the ramparts with food and drink. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Tell me about how you became Adarlan’s Assassin, and how you wound up in this castle, exactly—and what the details are of this absurd competition.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But at this moment, with half of them mauled from the fight with Ishtar's lamassus, and Nergal bleeding from a dozen wounds, tempers were bubbling out of control. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The hunters left many wounded otter behind them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone, to sit next to. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Together, Sansa and the serving man got the wounded knight back on his feet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone believed that she could be wounded by the word cripple. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was wild, he said, and in the wild that wound was fatal. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A total of 51,116 soldiers were killed, missing, or wounded. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“They say wounded soldiers will be brought via train if the railways are still operating. Several claim the Russians have already bombed the entire track.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Maya had been a step away, but she whirled around, red like a wound exploding, sending blood straight into the sky. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The march wound its way from the West Side back into Central. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Of the Surinamese cotton plant, she wrote, “The Indians put its green leaves on wounds in order to cool and heal them.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And Cain, to her delight, wound up going purple in the face after consuming belladonna. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Roads wound crazily up to the peak, where the largest palace gleamed against the snow. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, there were a lot of warriors wounded. Nobody knows exactly how many. Some say around forty warriors were killed. One of those was Crazy Horse’s best friend.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“He’s going to be fine. The doctor said the wound was shallow.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

More dirt spilled from the base of the arrow wound in his throat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

That shadow would marry this shadow, and the peculiar, yellowish soil of our locality seal the wound in the whiteness, and yet another snowfall erase the traces of newness in Joan's grave. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never expe­rienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

At least 40,000 people were instantly killed, and tens of thousands more fatally wounded or poisoned with radiation. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You must be starved. Damon, Alyn, see to them. Wine and ale, and all the food that they can eat. Skinner, show their wounded to our maesters.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Once fat Madge made him sit before her, holding a skein of yarn from which she wound a ball. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It holds my leg straight and keeps me from bumping the wound. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I had been vague with Mama, so as not to open old wounds. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Roman ranks moved forward, impaling centaurs and trampling wounded ogres under their bronze-tipped boots. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But Arnold, claiming that his old wounds still kept him from battle duty, successfully pleaded for command of West Point. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Voices from down below wound up to her ears. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

With water and rags she cleaned my wounded ear. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I was embarrassed to admit it: I wanted to see him again, not to evaluate his wound but to discover his name, his mission, and why he had taken the drawing from my suitcase. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He saw Toomer lying on his back, his two large hands clamped over a stomach wound. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isabelle picked up the mouse, wound it again, and set it down. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

And to do this in bis name, that was salt in the wound. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The paramedic disinfected Ear’s wound and fed plasma into his arm to counteract the shock. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was wounded in the thigh, and when he recovered consciousness he found McWatt on both knees taking care of him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The wounds at his neck had not yet clotted, which made him seem animate even in death, the blood still spreading out across his shirt. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only got a small wound from that bullet. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Frank Hamilton considered the methods to be useful only after pus and blood oozed from a wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

An awful wound, probably from a sword, went from his right shoulder across his neck and chest. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The line was so long that it wound all around the big, grassy courtyard, all around the tall barbed-wire fence and snaked all the way down the wide, tarred road. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My throbbing hands were covered with sticker wounds from getting all the gooseberries into the pail. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He flexed his wounded hand, grimacing, then pulled his glove on and rose. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ser Lancel did not appear to accept the title; the talk was, his wound might cost him his arm or even his life. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We count up: out of twenty, seven are dead, four wounded, one in a mad-house. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think back to the warmth of Day’s kiss, the way he’d bandaged my wound. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“These people” — I indicate the wounded bodies on the square—“are not your enemy!” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The rumble of bombs had quieted and the sirens had finally wound down, and I wondered if all that apocalyptic noise had been keeping me awake. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her legs, too, are unrecognizable—the enlarged knees, the calf muscles shorter and more angular than in her youth, her wounded feet. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, Mariam was in the kitchen, soaking dishes in soapy water, a tightly wound knot in her belly. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Eighteen Africans died and many others were wounded in this indiscriminate and unprovoked attack. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time, Salva would think of his family and his village, and he was somehow able to keep his wounded feet moving forward, one painful step at a time. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could a teenage boy really wound him like that? Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

My life was like an open, bleeding wound that had festered and would not heal. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But the more frantic Mami became in her search for the right treatment for Raymond, the more distant Papi became, as if we were all wounded in some way that he couldn’t help. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Fair knight,” he said, “put down that wounded man and 353 let him test a little. Then we two can prove our strengths.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

James wound toilet paper around the book as Matthew held it and the balled-up paper in place. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He collapsed down to the ground, and wound his body upward like a cobra. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The only thing that rivaled Americans’ fear of the Soviet Union’s incipient prowess in the heavens was their wounded national pride. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The place is in an uproar, with doctors shouting orders and the wounded being wheeled through the halls in their beds. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

My wounds from the Doctorita’s hanger rage have nearly disappeared, but my anger at her has lingered. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Japanese arrived and prepared to execute the wounded, Duckworth berated them so roundly that they beat him severely but spared his companions. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Kat condemns it, because, he says, a man has to reckon with the possibility of an abdominal wound, and that is more dangerous on a full stomach than on an empty one. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would explain to Arthur that he had pleaded the wound so as to come unexpectedly, in disguise, because that was one of the new-fashioned things to do. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a storefront church and had stood, for John’s lifetime, on the corner of this sinful avenue, facing the hospital to which criminal wounded and dying were carried almost every night. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The first thing Will did was to make Lyra sit down, and then he took out the little pot of bloodmoss ointment and looked at the wound on her head. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

His wounded shoulder burned with pain at the frantic effort. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We use it for pests,” he said, getting wound up. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was still raining as they coasted along the steep lane that wound down the cliff side to St. Catherine’s Bay. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I was weary, wounded, and still a little drunk. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She wound herself up and marched to the screen door, put her face against the screen, and yelled, “Chicken killer! Chicken killer!” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Fearful that the skin would simply come away, she made a gentle pass, around his calf, two inches above the wound. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

An old wound a boar’s white tusk inflicted, on Parnassos years ago. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then as the sun started to come up we made our way slowly, wounded and exhausted, to the lambing barn. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet it was he who bound up your wounds with the wounds of the Founder. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I imagine it will be little more than a pale line, provided he can avoid tearing open his wound.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"I don't believe the wound is what concerns Mr. Armin, or Julian," Sander said. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He got that wound from the police in a demonstration,” he explained. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors confirmed that, despite their hideous appearance, the wounds were not fatal. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the blood began to well from the wound, spreading across his doublet, dyeing it red, and I realized with a shock that this was no illusion. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes water from the pain of my wounds. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Make a bad shot and wound one so that he went to squealing, and you had the whole bunch after you, ready to eat you alive. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both his weapons fell from his grasp as he clutched at the wound. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Grasping onto each other, we stumbled across the balcony like a wounded chimera. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The road wound up and up, narrowly, between high ferny banks, and the trees arched together overhead. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She breathes through her skin, she breathes through her wounds. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have a hole through the toe that I tried to fix nearly a year ago, but my sewing skills are poor, and I wound up just making them ugly. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, it wound down and seemed to fade away into that magic realm from which it came. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She kept hold of the weed digger, wrenching it free of the wound as she fell. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The saying “time heals all wounds” is false. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He has several lesions on his right leg and an open wound hidden under his hair. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

No wounded men screaming in pain or calling for their mothers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our family was no exception, and all of the children were wounded by our separation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leopards are not usually dangerous unless they have been wounded. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were outnumbered by a crack Viet Cong battalion, and dead and wounded Americans were soon scattered throughout the jungle undergrowth. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You wound me, Kaede. Your brothers told me I could trust you—I shouldn’t have believed them.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was careless of my words, wanting to wound him, if he had any tender places left. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It was as if something all wound up in a ball inside of her had let go at the sight of him just that minute. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Several surgeons with gunshot wound experience declared that damage to the vertebrae and ribs alone would not cause death. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He got a job at Mutare Board and Paper Mills, the biggest paper mill in Zimbabwe, which was how he wound up at Chisamba Singles. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and chilled, and miserable. I feel as if I had been wound up to a certain pitch—too tight— and something inside of me had snapped.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sucked the wound, then spit “I hate catfish! Them stingers hurt worse than Pa’s belt.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She was too perceptive not to notice the crusty Band-Aids and my favoring the wound. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought perhaps she had a wound I had overlooked. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This wounds me deeply, I will have you know,” he told them between signatures. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was of more than royal blood; his mother was Aphrodite herself, and when Diomedes wounded him she hastened down to the battlefield to save him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have any gross wounds to show off, but I had the story of Operation Royal Flush to tell, which made both my friends wish they’d been here to help. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

To prevent urine and feces from coming into contact with the boy’s wounds, he carried the cell’s chamber pot to Shin and hoisted him up so he could use it. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meleager then rushed on the wounded creature and stabbed it to the heart. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt found that if he lay perfectly still, his wounds didn’t hurt too much. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blackjack the pegasus was recovering nicely from his arrow wound. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Lilya had to stay on the ground for six weeks recovering from her wound. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Guenever herself, ushered into a small waiting-room while the state apartments were made ready for her reception, added to the confusion by insisting on bandages and hot water and stretchers for her wounded men. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Starving, weak from injuries, trying not to reopen wounds. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Otto was too wound up to sleep, so he kept crying and walking up and down my body. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He placed it respectfully over the hideous features, then proceeded to dress the wounds. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Moonlight winked on the tumbling waters of the stream below as it wound its rocky way along the floor of the valley. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was wounded in the shoulder, faced by an enemy who seemed to accept the death of gentlemen as a part of warfare, and now he was in an ambush. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Ser Loras was young, prone to all the rash judgments of youth, and had been grievously wounded storming the castle besides. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A lot of people were being wounded or killed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she skinned the lemon for me, whether to spare my wound its acid or to stop me from bleeding on any more fruit, I wasn’t sure. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was the sound of a bear, wounded or dying. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“What you need is to show me that wound you’re trying to hide.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He felt his veins begin to pulsate; then the vibration coursed through him, and he felt the power leave his hands and enter his wound. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

You’ll be put in the basement and given some lavender for the wound. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The stream didn’t slow us down much, but over the next half hour we had to cross it three separate times as it wound back and forth across the road. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Finally I pressed a poultice of certain herbs over the whole wound, using a trowel-like instrument to plaster it on. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the thirteen colonels in Pickett’s Division seven were dead and six were wounded. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You won’t be in bed all the time. You must first have the wounds exposed to the sun. Then afterward you can be on crutches.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He explained that when he washed open wounds with carbolic acid, fewer patients died. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

So, half drunk and wounded I made my way up to my window, tripped the latch and tugged ... but it wouldn’t open. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He wound the strands together, weaving them into a bright, shimmering quilt. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been having a very peculiar dream ever since I learned you were wounded,” confessed the chaplain. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Open me. I want to see it go wound.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no time to mourn, no compassion for the wounded. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

All told, more than seven hundred shots had been fired into the crowd, wounding more than four hundred people, including dozens of women and children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must have gone to that window about a dozen times that morning and watched the wounded kitten make a broken progress across the lawn. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They dance scenes depicting farmers at work, the harvesting of rice, nurses helping wounded soldiers, and soldiers winning batdes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As The Beast roars on, my wounds become warm. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting about licking their wounds and waiting for the Chief to recover seemed to be the order of the day. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Runner weeds were growing between the flagstone walkways that wound between the planter boxes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels like we were all wounded in your battle, Caroline. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“No, he was not It was three to one, and his old wound broke out too.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her recuperation was slower, though, than the others, for she had been left with a wound and they had not. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

With some preternatural craftiness he always knew the right nerve to touch, at exactly the right moment, to wound and outrage most. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Smith led Seabiscuit along the road that wound up to the railroad siding. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though everyone, including Cherrie, thought the wound was fatal, he decided to go. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

When she touched her fingers to the wound at her side, they came away wet. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I pulled off my hat and wound my fingers through the pink crocheted holes in the yarn. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s nearly September,” said the man who wound his watch. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

From above, Assef's screams went on and on, the cries of a wounded animal. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His entire body was a mass of deep, raw, red wounds. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Archer’s hand clinched around hers, his face contorting, as Doc began stitching a wound on his right hand. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He had brought wounded sheep in from the field this way many times, holding them against his chest. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He passed sections like his own where vehicles were being disabled and the wounded were being lifted into lorries. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But he knew he was lucky to have only shrapnel wounds. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The cavalry rode them down, killing and wounding, and following in pursuit. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

With the president lying on his left side, Wales stuck his little finger into the wound as far as he could. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Every night on the television news, Americans watched film from the Vietnam War: falling bombs, firefights, burning villages, the wounded on stretchers, and body bags loaded onto planes for the long flight home. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But Athena had no desire now to let the suitors restrain themselves from wounding words and acts. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear my father, wounded in the background. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The bleeding from his chest wound appeared to have stopped and he was thinking straight. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She had been talking all the afternoon, and had wound herself up to the story-telling pitch. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whites lived downstairs and blacks lived upstairs, and to bridge that separation was to heal a biblical wound. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But I could not yet become the wounded person. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Not really. But Sherlock Holmes isn’t here, is he? And this wound in Carl’s head is.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It falls upon us in a single massive deluge that only lasts for a couple of seconds, but it’s enough to drench us, to soak the ground, and to wound the fire. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The testimony and questions wore on and the hearing wound down. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But I found a place where the cars would be sheltered after they passed that last bad- looking bit and could wait for the wounded to be brought across the pontoon bridge. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Deeply wounded, he gave the prince a last, blazing look. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I see no sign of her wounds, no blood, just a bright, laughing girl. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The wound was on the man’s thumb, where the nail was missing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Holly’s cloak was fastened with a silver clasp, and Frenya had a girdle of hempen rope wound about her middle from her hips to breasts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I saw the blood squirting from the deep wound in her shoulder. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scooped up his dæmon and she attended to the scalp wound, licking and cleaning him tenderly as they walked back to their boardinghouse. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Some of them nurse minor wounds or brush gravel from their clothes. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Her face is wound up into a knot and a tear rolls down her cheek. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He made use of this moment alone to look at his wound. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even from afar, I could see the train cars were stuffed with wounded and refugees. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The man who wound his watch approached me. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Two world wars ago, battlefield nurses gave cups of tea to the wounded and it leaked through their bullet holes and killed them. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one said a word as he wound it off the cleat. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother gives it to hysterical patients to knock them out to stitch up a bad wound or quiet their minds or just to help someone in pain get through the night. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“That’s good. You can never be sure with a head wound.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Surreptitiously, I applied a fresh section of white towel to my wound, thinking that as soon as the bleeding stopped, I would take the late trolley back to the asylum. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The skin was beginning to rip outward from the wound in a starburst pattern not too different from the one on my shoulder, except that his was shiny with pus. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The thing we got to worry about now is infection. That leg wound is going to take twenty...thirty stitches. What happened?” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded Selmy of the first blood welling from a wound. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her heart, as on that bright summer day when he had first spoken to her, gave a terrible bound and then was still, with an awful, wounded stillness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I knew that, in my “just right” place, I would breathe deep, feeling a loosening of all the things wound up in me, and know I’d found it. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

His torn sleeves were stained with seepage from his wounds. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

As I walk down the aisle between the wounded, I notice the uniforms. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

All downed birds are retrieved by so-called wringer boys, who break the necks of the wounded and place all bodies in plastic bags. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The scar Luke had given me last summer was fading, but I could still see it—a white asterisk-shaped wound where his pit scorpion had stung me. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But it had wounded the tiger in the chest, deeply enough to make him back away with a furious yowl. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Grey Wind stalked beside, eyes burning, and man and wolf alike bled from half a hundred savage wounds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But as his skinny, bent fingers could not release the projectile in time, he wound up drilling it against his own foot instead of at the bird. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I take a few careful steps to a neighboring tree, pull off some moss, and without examining the wound further, tightly bandage my arm. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some had been killed between the sky and the ground; several more were wounded and lay on the cliff or among the trees. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I press a button, ripped from a coat, over the wound to divert direct pressure. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘It’s a small wound. All we have to do is stop the bleeding, dean it out and put a few stitches in.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Herr Seligmann fought in the Great War, where he was wounded and earned the Iron Cross for his bravery. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

One look at the wound and I know it's far beyond my capacity to heal, beyond anyone's probably. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

"My lord," the maester said, "I would not counsel .. . that might be, ah, unwise, as it were . . your wound . . ." "Bring it," he had to say. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Their children were like distant but exposed wounds whose aches were no less intimate because separate from their flesh. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A fine mist wound its way inside Will’s nose, making him feel like—of all things—baking. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Glenn was wound up pretty tightly, Siobhan thought—he was pounding the ball when he only needed to gently return it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Two Marines had just been wounded in their arms and legs by shrapnel when they tried to retrieve a seemingly discarded .35 caliber Japanese machine pistol. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of them sat hunched over, trying to nurse their wounds. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ship’s doctor checked each one of them carefully, applying salves to their many wounds and giving medicine to those who appeared to be sickly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deedee groaned in frustration and pointed at her wound once again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Each person held their wounded selves closely, clutching their pain as if it were a precious thing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Kote slowly removed his shirt, grimacing and sucking his breath through his teeth as the dried blood stuck and tugged against the wounds. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But Richard had fought and been wounded in the Great War, and he did not think any harm would come to him or his family in the long run. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When she woke, the king was still in her arms, badly wounded but alive. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there are my wounds to contend with -burns, cuts, and bruises from smashing into the trees, and three tracker jacker stings, which are as sore and swollen as ever. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They crossed over another little bridge, and the path wound around a large tree. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Blue Eyes stood over him, one hand pressed against her gushing wound and the knife still embedded in her neck. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing but a minor flesh wound,” Mom declared after studying the deep gash. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And it was disturbing to see—among the established plantings—the raw brown earth like a wound in the ground. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘This wound touches your soul as well as your body. You must fight it, Jason Grace . . . you must survive.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

This was the masculine Mr. Sedaris, who wrote knowingly of flesh wounds and tractor pulls. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The wound is reddish, about two inches long, a little swollen, with what’s going to be a scab starting to cover it. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Eva’s in line for registration. We have to hurry. I need to get back. They’re boarding the wounded tonight. I want to take Emilia with me. The rest of you may board tomorrow.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I know about the status conferred by wounds. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

No sooner had I said this than the siren wound down, and apparently stopped on the road at the foot of the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was then that I could see the wound that was causing her so much distress. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

All the muscles in his body were tight, wound up, like twisted wires about to break. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I pray to Shiva, and also to the god of my forefathers, and to Frida Kahlo, who is the guardian saint of wounded artists. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“We must stop my bleeding and we must cover the wound so they do not smell it. If they don’t smell the blood, we’ll survive. If they do, we’re for it, so help me, please.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In front of me, white marble steps wound up the spine of a cloud, into the sky. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The guest list alone can ruin lives, destroy families, and create deep wounds that take years to heal. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The driver came out of the door with the papers for the wounded in the car. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was a double spiral staircase that wound up to a second-floor landing, also marble, and along the staircase, Grace could see a large portrait wall covered in professionally framed pictures. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She may have officially been a governess for only a few weeks, but it wounded her professional pride to have her students talked about in such a cavalier manner. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Her wound hadn’t clotted, and blood was still pouring down her wrist. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The car wound up backward in a ditch. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The night rang to the clash of steel and the cries of the wounded and dying. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She tried to answer, but wound up coughing savagely instead, and he forced her face down in the dirt before she could manage another breath. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Our wounds were then dressed with a healing plant, the leaves of which were thorny on the outside but smooth on the inside, which absorbed the blood and other secretions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I allow my hand to tentatively touch my head wound. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Old battle wound,” he said when he noticed my concern. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, on the Maple River I drew into a little copse, of sycamores I think, that overhung the stream, and paused to lick my mythological wounds. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flinch at the pain in my wounded shoulder and stop struggling. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the cold night air the wound was smoking. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The wounded badger had seized the blade regardless of its keen edge. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His brachet, on a long string, was wound round him several times. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever the hornblasts wound on among the hills; nearer now and louder they answered one to another, blowing fierce and free. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z