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I examined, and found a great contusion, and that was all.
Who Goes There? / The Story of a Spy in the Civil War
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His eyes were unusually bright, and there was a great contusion on his forehead.
Alton of Somasco: A Romance of the Great Northwest
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Wounds inflicted by shell fragments and shrapnel bullets tend to be extensive in area, and show great contusion, laceration, and destruction of the tissues.
Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.