Certainly the wounds he inflicted on it in the space of five or ten seconds would have killed half a dozen men.

A wound on that side can kill within minutes, because blood is lost so quickly and the body's supply of oxygen suddenly falls.

The wound wouldn't kill the old man, but it would keep him out of the rest of the fighting.

Hard to believe, but those two tiny wounds had almost killed him.

The wound to the heart killed her and she would have died almost instantly.

If the initial wound doesn't kill them immediately, they probably aren't going to die.

Besides, I am absolutely positive that the abdominal wound killed him.

Then I fought a battle against such uneven odds that my wounds should have killed me.

Not a serious wound, though it would have scarred - she killed that thought instantly.

A wound like that would have killed or completely incapacitated her.