Careful Words

hurt (n.)

hurt (v.)

hurt (adj.)

  Rom.  Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.

  Mer.  No, 't is not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 't is enough, 't will serve.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 1.

  He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

Old Testament: Psalm xv. 4.

More frayd then hurt.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.

He had got a hurt

O' the inside, of a deadlier sort.

Samuel Butler (1600-1680): Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 309.

Iago.  What, are you hurt, lieutenant?

Cas.  Ay, past all surgery.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3.

But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): Locksley Hall. Line 105.