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Usage examples of gashes.

Claw marks and gashes crisscrossed his battered body like roads on a map of some unknown land.

He braced himself against the throb of the current, letting the water numb the gashes written across his ribs like mysterious glyphs.

Several of his gashes had broken open again and orange blood seeped into his matted fur.

Already stiff from the gashes that crossed and recrossed her throat and shoulders, her pace was painfully slow and she had to trail the other by scent.

Heyoka's head hung wearily as he dabbed at the streaming gashes on his throat with the back of his hand.

Red-orange blood oozed from a dozen gashes, and one slash near his throat pulsed with bright blood at every breath.

The girl was the only one who approached Borella Seal and bent for the close inspection of the long gashes scoring the upper leg.

Suitable gashes had taken a lot of time to make but the Emassi was nodding, touching the marks and then rattling off orders to his crew.

No-one at the Hold had been so severely wounded: a few broken bones, quite a few gashes from flying debris, muscles strains which numbweed immediately eased.

The chap had an ugly wound on his head, and there were three long gashes down the front of his chest--"

Doremus knelt down and, after straightening out the dead man's distorted limbs, began to make an examination of the wound in his head and the gashes down the breast.

Before replying he studied the three gashes again, and then rose to his feet.

His shirt had been ripped down the front, like the jersey of Montague's bathing suit, and there were three long gashes in the flesh, as if a monster's claw had torn him downward from the throat.

His head had been flung back, mouth open in black horror as the abdominal gashes spewed entrail strands of translucent turquoise jelly.

Tall gashes in the wall had been sealed by traditional stained glass, with a huge circular rosette at the end of the nave overlooking the stone altar.