The knife had severed an artery.

Her knife severed the last strand of rope.

He opened his mouth and tried to scream, but the knife had severed a vocal chord.

And not by a knife, because a knife sharp enough to sever joints did not leave stringy strands of flesh.

Prisoned by the Llondel's imaging, he felt as if the knife he just used for murder had also severed the threads of natural progression.

That he was dead I had no doubt, for my knife must have severed his spine, and it had been thrown hard.

The knife severed the spinal cord just where it enters the medulla.

The long knife severed the rope about his waist with a single cut.

Before he could fire a second shot, an arm encircled his head and drew it back, and a knife almost severed it from his body.

Then blood spurted as the knife severed the artery.