Got a gashed arm in a knife fight. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A dagger point broke on the stout links of mail covering his right side, but a sword gashed his left arm. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Avenger]
Hendricks, quaking with shame and fear, sat shivering before his desk with jaws agape and the forged name gashed into his soul. From Wordnik.com. [A Certain Rich Man] Reference
He had three fingers cut off and his throat gashed. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
If a shudder were detected, the old chiefs gashed deeper. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
BERRETTA: I saw -- there was a woman who had a gashed leg. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2009] Reference
A figure skater's face gashed open by her partner's skate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2007] Reference
She turnt on him wid de hoe and gashed him 'bout de head wid it. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
That hatchet face of his was gashed with what he thought was a smile. From Wordnik.com. [Vigorish] Reference
He lay on it for dead, gashed with the sabre and pierced with bullets. From Wordnik.com. [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference
Already one of these had been gashed by a spear, which still stuck in it. From Wordnik.com. [Round the World in Seven Days] Reference
Red paint gashed mink stole, slowly in process of the mink stealing it right back. From Wordnik.com. [Water for Old Bet] Reference
I found your father's body; he was smitten and gashed, but nobler than the living. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century] Reference
His left knuckles gashed as a kid when he rode his bike too close to a moving train. From Wordnik.com. [Out of That Bed 1963] Reference
A small island in the center of the stream was gashed and scoured by the recent ice-flow. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
Battle-sharp and keen it was, and with it the hero gashed the dragon right in the middle. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
See how bloodless be our bodies, pierced with how many wounds and gashed with how many scars!. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Gordon felt the blade strike; but he was already pulling his swing, and it only gashed a long streak. From Wordnik.com. [Police Your Planet] Reference
He put up his hand to wipe the blood from his eyes, and the hand too, she saw, was gashed and bleeding. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
Ignoring his gashed and bleeding fingers, he widened the breach till he, could pull himself up through it. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
But few of the company there escaped the deadly flying glass, as badly-gashed faces immediately testified. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
Here there is a great mesa or elevated table-land, cut and gashed by innumerable canyons and gorges, and with. From Wordnik.com. [Navaho Houses, pages 469-518 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898] Reference
Just before they reached me the nose of one of the horses suddenly was gashed and a stream of blood poured out. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
The guard rail would also protect the trees, which are scuffed and gashed by the clumsy or irresponsible drivers. From Wordnik.com. [Henry J. Stern: Death Be Not Proud] Reference
The night before his fourth birthday, Rohan Giare of Rockville rolled off his bed and gashed the bridge of his nose. From Wordnik.com. [Physicians use photos from patients' cellphones to deliver 'mobile health'] Reference
But after each effort the damp feeling on his hands was from his gashed and battered head and not life-giving water. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
Zulus; his escort mounted and fled; and he was found next morning dead, his body gashed with eighteen assegai wounds. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference
Gordon crossed the creek in a boat, and on the banks lay the dead bodies of the Wangs, headless, and frightfully gashed. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of General Gordon] Reference
The gashed water at every stroke of club or swish of tail or fin bled in blue and red fire, as if the very sea was wounded. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
Each of the producing trees had its rough bark gashed with cuts to a height of ten to twelve feet all around its circumference. From Wordnik.com. [In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians] Reference
A shell found one of the small advanced posts, killed a few outright and gashed a long tear into the abdomen of the one survivor. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
Ted's arm, where he tried in vain to get it between himself and the wolf, was gashed in a dozen places, and the blood was all over him. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference
When their comrades came, they found their corpses stark and gashed; but round both wrists of every British hero was twined the red thread!. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
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