1 Then your hand slips up on the blade, and there is a fearful gash.
2 I ran back for a light and there was the poor fellow, a great gash in his throat and the whole place swimming in blood.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS 3 The sight seemed to paralyse me, and the shovel turned in my hand and glanced from the face, merely making a deep gash above the forehead.
4 Writing this skimble-skamble stuff in her cottage, she had agreed to cut the play here; a slave to her audience,--to Mrs. Sands' grumble--about tea; about dinner;--she had gashed the scene here.
5 Across this gashed and puckered mirror a dark body was slowly borne by one of the backward currents.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together 6 He had already, in spite of the rain, taken off his overcoat in order to do his delicate task, and so, as he fell, his knife gashed his thigh.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze 7 I remember, too, late that night, beating the bushes with my clenched fist until my knuckles were gashed and bleeding from the broken twigs.
8 The red furrows and the gashed red road lost their magical blood color and became plain brown earth.
9 Deep ruts and furrows were cut into the road where horses had dragged heavy guns along it and the red gullies on either side were deeply gashed by the wheels.
10 The roadway was gashed with ruts of ice.
11 For mile after mile the trenches encircled the town, red gashes surmounted by red mounds, waiting for the men who would fill them.
12 The broad, straight, unenticing gashes of the streets let in the grasping prairie on every side.
13 My feet have been so cracked with the frost, that the pen with which I am writing might be laid in the gashes.