But the fall had smashed several ribs, and sometimes when he took a deep breath, it was like a tiny reminder, a prod near his heart".
By the fourth or fifth take, enough mud had washed away to expose a tree stump at the slope's bottom and Carnel smashed his rib cage.
Her face had been mangled, her ribs smashed, and both her hands broken.
He responded with expletives, with anecdotes of broken hips and shattered wrists and ribs smashed on the sides of bathtubs, and how dealing with them needed the professional care that comes of regular first-aid training and having a paramedic on hand.
I ran as fast as I could, into the street, straight at the guy, leapt off the ground, raised a knee, and smashed into his ribs.
Still, Cheng's characters are finely spun, soulful creatures, and his writing is muscular, evocative and haunting: "The moon was a cataract eye.... His hummingbird heart smashed itself against his ribs".
The three were freed after a hearing in which charges against them and a fourth man, who is in jail in a separate crime, were dropped in the slaying in 1986 of Lori Roscetti, 23, a medical student who was found on a desolate road near a Chicago housing project, her face smashed by concrete, her ribs shattered and a bloody shoe print left on her chest.
An autopsy report showed that Shahzad had died slowly and painfully, his rib cage smashed on both sides, his lungs and liver ruptured.
Injuries sustained - skinned knee, bruised hip-bone, scraped chest, banged up rib-cage, smashed toe.
Our favorite entree was the fork-tender, root-beer-braised short ribs with buttermilk smashed potatoes, baby carrots and pickled onions.
