I was a stricken deer that left the herd Long since; with many an arrow deep Infixed My panting side was charged, when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades, There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by the archers.
"Cowper"
Goldwin Smith
And in the museum of the Royal Dublin Society there exists a fossil rib bearing evident token of having been wounded by some sharp instrument which remained long Infixed in the wound, but had not penetrated so deep as to destroy the creature's life.
"The Romance of Natural History, Second Series"
Philip Henry Gosse