Discounts considerably

Usage examples of slashes.

Scaurus, after beating aside a series of round house slashes, felt his confidence begin to return.

Although he now panted for breath and his body glistened with sweat and the blood from half a dozen minor slashes and punctures, he could still lash out with deadly skill at anyone who approached too closely.

He switched from slashes to thrusts in mid-stroke, always on the move, always pressing home the attack, never giving an inch but forcing the Green Towers back whole yards.

Each was bleeding from nicks and slashes where the other had briefly got through the guard of his opponent.

It vanished cleanly, leaving Aderyn sitting there, bleeding from long claw slashes all over his body.

He felt the shock and pain of the gibberers being stabbed and thrust aside, the choking of their lungs, the stinging slashes of swords, and the ripping jolts of lances piercing flesh.

Her brows had not been shaved as was the custom of some women, but were slashes of red-brown that swept upward across flawless, lustrous skin.

Tiny cordings of silk and gold finished the slashes of his short, padded breeches, and beneath them he wore close-fitting hose and low-topped shoes.

The sleeves of his dark green velvet doublet and the puffed trunk hose were adorned with lined slashes, the edges of which were finished with silk cordings.

The man tried to stab his bayonet up at Sharpe who gave him two furious slashes with the big sword and left him screaming and bleeding and curled into a ball.

One such assault was led by a tall, bareheaded French officer who drove two redcoats aside with whip-quick slashes of his sword, then lunged at a British officer who was fumbling with his pistol.

His gun was spouting return thrusts more dangerous than the slashes that the Afghans attempted.

Worming past the clutches of dark hands, the slashes of hastily swung knives, he reached the door of the Moonlight Cafe.