Something struck a wicked blow at my leg and it crumpled under me.

This is a wicked blow but not an epochal transformation or the first day of a new history.

A wicked blow hit his thigh and he went down.

A wicked blow took him high in the shoulder, ripping the skin.

Something struck him a wicked blow on the skull and he staggered, half turning.

A wicked blow, a glancing one, opened a gash in my skull.

Something struck it a wicked blow in the side; its head came up and an arrow sliced through one eye, deep into the brain.

Clay threw himself flat along the horse just as something struck him a wicked blow on the shoulder.

Something struck him a wicked blow and he fell.

A lot of those people are the ones on the receiving end of his wicked blows.