Seriously injured

Usage examples of maimed.

Mothers do not want to know that the child they carry will be born dead, or that their sons will die before they do, and their husbands will be maimed during the hunt.

Iron had long since taken over as the metal of choice for forging weapons, and the number of Maimed Men had been declining for decades.

Said he was riding one of those shaggy little ponies the Maimed Men are known for.

The Maimed Man had stripped off his makepiece armor and now walked in felted tunic and kilt.

There was a lot of meat, even considering he and the Maimed Man had roasted whatever they fancied and been none too careful with what was left.

More Maimed Men had come to the fire, and a group of women had gathered near the rear.

All the Maimed Men were listening now, hands and mouths greasy with elk juice, the firelight making masks of their faces.

He would have liked to ask about their numbers now, for it was impossible to gauge how many Maimed Men lived here, but he judged his chances of getting an answer as low.

Stillborn had warned him you never got anything from a Maimed Man unless you gave him something first.

The Maimed Man looked well rested, and had changed from his travel clothes into dressed skins edged with rat fur and a rat-and-coon-fur kilt.

All felt his presence, Raif was sure of it, for the Maimed Men seemed to turn around him like a wheel around its axis.

The great, thick-necked Maimed Man nodded enthusiastically, his eyebrows up and working.

Much ale had been drunk, and Maimed Men were pressing close on all sides.

Already the Maimed Men were closing on him, their chant rising as the arrow dropped.

The Maimed Men looked and sounded like clan, most of them, but there were no gods living in this stone city and there was nothing but shared desperation to bind it.