They were violently assaulted by a rabble of men and boys, the former of whom pursued them with bludgeons, brickbats, and stones, which not only inflicted severe contusions, but really endangered their lives.

His face was black, and there was a frightful contusion on the side of his head.

For only a few days later Sternbald entered the courtyard again, leading the horses at a walk before the wagon, in which lay his wife, stretched out, with a dangerous contusion of the chest.

Sir William flew to support the discomfited hero, who had received a grievous contusion in his shoulder.

Breath fail'd me as I spakebut soon With lips, no doubt, and visage pale, And sore too from a slight contusion, Did I, to cover my confusion, Begin the promised Tale.

That is an ugly contusion on her head."