Sentence examples for receiving a wound from inspiring English sources

This, however, did not prevent the veteran receiving a wound that was close to fatal, no more than it does Ronaldo producing one piece of evidence after another that beyond all the vanity is a talent as hard as rock.

In October 1575 he calmed the anxieties of the Parisians by defeating a German army at Dormans, receiving a wound and scar that won him his father's nickname of "le Balafré." Fearing Guise's growing popularity, Henry III made peace with the Huguenots (May 1576).

The 24th also repelled a number of charges, with VC recipient Costello receiving a wound in the arm.

On another occasion, he is said to have cut his way through a squadron of five hundred Turks, without receiving a wound; he had previously posted an ambuscade in a wood and was accompanied only by his brother and Axouch.

Tilly received a wound from which he died two weeks later.

"The parties today behave just like how the Baathists behaved before," said Chnor Muhammed, a 33-year-old journalist who received a wound to her left hand, referring to Mr. Hussein's party.

He showed me an inch-long scar and explained apologetically, "If, in a fight, you receive a wound on your forehead, then you are considered to have done well, but if you only have a spear wound on the back of your leg, like this one of mine, then you are viewed as not having fought well".

After all, an eye that receives a wound and becomes infected is potentially very dangerous.

Finch soon received a wound, from which he died three days later.

In the fight that followed, Burnham pretended to receive a wound in the knee.

Later in 1778 at Short Hills, New Jersey, White suffered a fractured femur caused by a musket ball and received a wound to the head from the stock of a British Army grenadier's musket.