death-wound

I was beside him on the field the day he took his death-wound.

GROWN FROM MAN TO DRAGON • by Megan Arkenberg 2009

Only the need for this particular communal peace and service ached in him like a death-wound.

A River So Long 2010

The accomplished Lowell received his death-wound in this courageous charge.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Then says Fafnir, “Such counsel I give thee, that thou take thy horse and ride away at thy speediest, for ofttimes it fails out so, that he who gets a death-wound avenges himself none the less.”

The Story of the Volsungs 2008

Now when that mighty worm was ware that he had his death-wound, then he lashed out head and tail, so that all things soever that were before him were broken to pieces.

The Story of the Volsungs 2008

One question will I spare thee, lest I provoke thy laughter; the foe that each of them encountered in the fray, the spear from which each received his death-wound.

The Suppliants 2008

One question will I spare thee, lest I provoke thy laughter; the foe that each of them encountered in the fray, the spear from which each received his death-wound.

The Suppliants 2008

He wounds the CARDINAL, and, in the scuffle, gives BOSOLA his death-wound.

The Duchess of Malfi 2007

His brothers and cousins laid him softly on a bank of whortle-berries, and just rode back to the lonely hamlet where he had taken his death-wound.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

In fact large families, and large families chiefly of boys, are the rule in Spain everywhere; and they everywhere know how to play bull-fighting, to flap any-colored old shawl, or breadth of cloth in the face of the bull, to avoid his furious charges, and doubtless to deal him his death-wound, though to this climax I could not bear to follow.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004