He wrapped the frayed edges of the jacket carefully over his chest as if that would soothe the stinging cut.

It sliced the ball of his thumb, a deep stinging cut.

He huddled down against the side of the cart, unable to avoid the rain of stinging cuts showering on his head, shoulders and back.

He accepted a stinging cut along the arm in exchange for grabbing the man's weapon hand.

Hot blood flowed down his left temple from a stinging cut.

"Thanks," Thonolan said, reaching for the stinging cut on his arm and looking at his blood-smeared fingers.

She gave him another stinging cut across the hands.

Another flash of steel landed a stinging cut across Decker's throat.

He got up, aware of a trickle of blood on his jaw from a deep, stinging cut, and then moved off to the right.

None of his familiar strokes - the ease through mid off, the stinging cut, the savage pull - are played with any confidence or fluency.