MY STYLE 3: INJURIES

Consider the following excerpts:

But his face was strangely pale, and as he fell upon the deck the blood gushed from his ears and nostrils. He quivered for a little, and then he was still. 
Oscar Wilde, "A House of Pomegranates"


He had broken two ribs, they had wounded one of his lungs, and he breathed with great pain and difficulty, which increased daily.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.

In spite of the difference between their styles, both authors describe injuries. This is one of the leitmotifs in my fictional works: there is always a character whose internal state is described in more or less detail when injured or drugged.