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Examples
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In its passage it cleared the body of a man, who lay motionless, bleeding from a bullet-wound in the neck.
JAN, THE UNREPENTANT 2010
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Wathope, a young professor of English, who had a grievous bullet-wound in his leg, drove the car.
Page 6 2010
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Faint music came from another house beyond the trees; a carriage clopped past the distant gates; overhead a nightbird moaned dolefully; I could hear my own knees creaking as I crouched there, scratching the newly-healed bullet-wound in my backside and wondering what the deuce was wrong.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Superheroes and comics characters are always popular, but I did notice that this year they were almost all Marvel characters: The Punisher, Doctor Doom, Captain America (complete with bullet-wound from recent assassination) and an awesome, awesome Galactus.
Halloween Roundup 2007
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Take Me To Your Leader: While Klaatu is recuperating from his bullet-wound, government agents attempt to get him to explain his intentions.
13 WTF Moments From ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’ Remake 2009
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Deputy-Sheriff Banks were notified, and by morning the thieves were captured, though only after a pretty desperate encounter, during which the officer received a bullet-wound.
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And for the rest I have no troubles, unless for a touch of gout now and again in my left foot, from an old bullet-wound, healed long since.
Pan 2003
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Faint music came from another house beyond the trees; a carriage clopped past the distant gates; overhead a nightbird moaned dolefully; I could hear my own knees creaking as I crouched there, scratching the newly-healed bullet-wound in my backside and wondering what the deuce was wrong.
Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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Faint music came from another house beyond the trees; a carriage clopped past the distant gates; overhead a nightbird moaned dolefully; I could hear my own knees creaking as I crouched there, scratching the newly-healed bullet-wound in my backside and wondering what the deuce was wrong.
Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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As he swung himself in beside me, with his hand on the window-frame, his sleeve was slightly pulled back, and I saw the star-shaped white scar of a bullet-wound on his wrist.
Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970
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