Healers could realign even the tiniest fragments of bone to allow a crushed limb to be restored-but only if that bone had not yet begun to set.

For an instant he stood looking down into the jagged rocks below, where lay N'Gora's spearmen, in limp, distorted attitudes that told of crushed limbs and splintered bones.

I didn't want any crushed limbs.

Mrs Forbes, there are people in here who have got broken bones, or severe chest pain from heart trouble, or head injuries, or crushed limbs from industrial accidents.

Most accidental amputations are messy affairs, resulting in crushed limbs or other serious injuries that had made such a complicated procedure as reattachment impossible.

The workers' compensation system was started in seven states in 1911, when workers were typically young and suffered injuries like chopped fingers and crushed limbs.

Or when the red blood was trickling drop by drop from the crushed limb, she might be seen standing nearest, smiling over a primrose or the bloom on a peach.

"Well, sir, leaving a person with four crushed limbs naked on a bare, cold floor in a drafty highland castle is not exactly a comfort-inducing experience, wouldn't you say, sir?"

Dax didn't bother replying, instead plunging down into the still-warm muck beside her friend, fearful that her position meant crushed limbs or battered organs.

She had been placed in one of the family's rooms, where she lay healing of crushed limbs.