Example Sentences

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Sometimes Ms. Tweeddale is the wounder here, like on “No Spare Key,” about letting a lover down and paying the price.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2014

The wound would not close, and an oracle told Telephus "the wounder shall heal."

From Euripedes and His Age by Murray, Gilbert

I wounder if any of these would fit; one might just try them, but I wouldn't lift up the lid if they did.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Lamb, Mary

Many a wound of friendship heals, but the wounder and the wounded are never the same to each other afterward.

From The Mettle of the Pasture by Allen, James Lane

He said, and o'er high Œté tortur'd rov'd Like a mad tiger, when the hunter's dart Stands in his body, and the wounder flies.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.