flesh-wound

The bullet was small-calibre and spent ere it reached him, so that he received no more than a flesh-wound, though he carried on as if he were dying until Mr. Pike hushed his noise by cuffing his ears.

CHAPTER XLIV 2010

"It's only a flesh-wound, and he isn't going to die," Sheldon managed to interpolate.

Chapter 7 2010

Smarmy, two-faced finger-wagger Mike "Bad Penny" Pence sure didn't look too delighted as Obama took him apart like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (t'was anything but a flesh-wound), using Pence's own economically-sub literate budget document for rhetorical toilet paper, and with the outhouse door wide open for all to see.

How Much Longer Can the GOP Maintain Credibility When All They Say Is "No! No! No! No! No!"? 2010

So far I don't believe we'd taken even a flesh-wound on our side.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Smarmy, two-faced finger-wagger Mike "Bad Penny" Pence sure didn't look too delighted as Obama took him apart like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (t'was anything but a flesh-wound), using Pence's own economically-sub literate budget document for rhetorical toilet paper, and with the outhouse door wide open for all to see.

Kara Vallow: How Much Longer Can the GOP Maintain Credibility When All They Say Is "No! No! No! No! No!"? 2010

So, coming to the encounter, reverend sir, I did try his mettle with some half-a-dozen of downright passes, with any one of which I could have been through his body, only that I was loth to take so fatal an advantage, but rather, mixing mercy with my just indignation, studied to inflict upon him some flesh-wound of no very fatal quality.

The Monastery 2008

Gideon Pike, shall dress a flesh-wound with any of the incorporation of

Old Mortality 2004

He swung to face the man he had isolated from his mates, and his thrust ripped a bloody flesh-wound down the side of his chest.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

The blade had glanced from the jewels of Thalis's girdle and inflicted only a very superficial flesh-wound, only enough to rouse the Stygian's unbridled fury.

The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

So far I don't believe we'd taken even a flesh-wound on our side.

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982