Wounding

Examples

• He is the most fearful of giving pain, of wounding expectation, and the most incapable of being selfish, of any body I ever saw. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• This effort of Lee's cost him about four thousand men, and resulted in their killing, wounding and capturing about two thousand of ours. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The girl evidently dared not fire for fear of wounding me, but I saw her sneak stealthily and cat-like toward the flank of the attackers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Caroline no more showed such wounding sagacity or reproachful sensitiveness now than she had done when a suckling of three months old. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• How he ever did it so often without wounding himself with my knife, I don't know. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Do you shrink from wounding me? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• They aimed at wounding more than Harriet, said he. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I think when I become calm after you woundings, 'Do I embrace a cloud of common fog after all? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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