We tried to put this back in its place by adjusting it carefully over the edge of the gaping wound and bandaging the arm.

It is quite possible that the violent compression the member was subjected to caused mortification to set in, and that the patient may have died.
We did not know exactly what ailed the girl.

The blood trickled through her hair, but we could not see whence it came; it formed oily blotches all over it and ran down into her neck.

The _garde_, our interpreter, bade her remove the cotton band she wore on her head, and her tresses tumbled down in a dull, dark mass and uncoiled like a cascade full of bloody threads.

We parted the thick, soft, abundant locks, and found a swelling as large as a nut and pierced by an oval hole on the back of her head.