His face felt bruised and every muscle in his body hurt as if he had been beaten, but nothing seemed to be broken.

Wincing as he used bruised muscles, Bruce made his way down to the forest floor.

There were nights without sleep, as bruised muscles wracked him with pain.

He limped off the court in the second game with a bruised muscle behind his right knee.

Working bruised muscles was the best thing he could do for them, and you don't really lose much blood from a scrape.

Todd started to sit up, and winced at the pain of his bruised muscles.

King, with a bandage on his right arm following practice yesterday, said he had a bruised muscle from Stevens's slash.

I cut it off and twitched various bruised muscles and was sitting up.

He eased himself into a chair, trying to ignore the ache of bruised muscles.

Julia gave a little moan as she stretched her bruised muscles.