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Example sentences for "severe blow"

  • Austria's conduct in 1908, therefore, dealt a severe blow to the regime of international law.

  • Besides dealing a severe blow to the Slav cause, it perpetuated the recent infamous spoliations and challenged every one concerned to further conflicts.

  • Consequently, the Italo-Turkish War (with its sequel, the Balkan War of 1912) dealt him a severe blow.

  • Christian staggered, as if he had received a severe blow; and the blood ran to his face in such a current of passion, that the Duke concluded he was struck with an apoplexy.

  • But the latter, who had never removed his eye from him, struck him a severe blow on the nose with his pole, and he instantly turned tail like a beaten hound, and fled howling to the further extremity of the area.

  • Her affections had received a severe blow in Courtenay's relinquishment of his pretensions to her hand, and it required all her pride and mastery over herself to bear up against it.

  • Wolfytt, who was nailing the girdle at the time, commanded him to keep silence, and enforced the order by striking him a severe blow on the temples with the hammer.

  • He continued:--"I admit that the entrance of a French army into Spain was a measure of disparagement to Great Britain; that it was a severe blow to the feelings of this country.

  • Lee was attempting to join Washington's force with 3000 men, when he was captured, and his loss seems to have been considered a severe blow to the cause of the Americans.

  • I am, however, clearly of opinion, that they will not move that way until they have endeavored to give a severe blow to this army.

  • The ruin of Ferguson's detachment, from which so much had been expected, was a severe blow to Cornwallis; it disconcerted his plans and prevented his progress northward.

  • This was a severe blow to the commerce on which Congress placed great dependence for supplies to the army and for sustaining its own credit.

  • The parties fought another round, and the deceased at the conclusion fell from a severe blow; Wood fell heavily on him.

  • St. Leger's defeat dealt a severe blow to the plans and prospects of Burgoyne.

  • As it was, the deadly fire of the riflemen inflicted a severe blow.

  • This famous victory was a severe blow to England's naval prestige.

  • But the time lost in coming about was to prove a severe blow to the Germans.

  • The buffalo just brought his right horn past the tree, and scraping it up the trunk so as to send all the loose pieces of bark flying, caught the Kafir a severe blow on the inside of the knee, nearly knocking him out of the tree.

  • Apart from gun-shot injuries, it is most frequently broken by a severe blow or crush.

  • The explanation of these widespread hæmorrhages is to be found, according to Duret, in the disturbance of the cerebro-spinal fluid which accompanies a severe blow on the head.

  • The use of the X-rays has shown that in many cases in which prolonged stiffness has followed a severe blow of the shoulder, there has been a fracture of the anatomical neck.

  • In fracture by direct violence, such as the passage of a wheel over the limb or a severe blow, the bones give way at the point of impact, and the line of fracture tends to be transverse, both bones being broken at the same level (Fig.

  • Rigorism was dealt a severe blow by the condemnation issued by Alexander VIII.

  • The expulsion of the Jesuits in 1759 was a severe blow to the missions in Brazil.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bow and; directed fire; drinking wine; four quarts; give unto; king over; kung said; large company; much wind; other particulars; severe cases; severe cold; severe defeat; severe drought; severe earthquakes; severe engagement; severe illness; severe tone; severe weather; severe winter; severe wound; severely wounded; skin smooth; total depravity; went ahead; working class