flesh wound

Perhaps after all his principal meant to take a flesh wound, and so end the matter.

He had received a flesh-wound above the eyes, and his forehead was bandaged, but the rest of the face uncovered.

Rodney received a light flesh wound, but most of the Americans escaped uninjured, while several of the enemy were killed.

But one among the Rangers was hit, and that was Rodney, he receiving a slight flesh wound in the left arm.

At that moment, an arrow whizzed through my buckskin shirt, just making a flesh wound on the shoulder.