How To Use Mutilated In A Sentence
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By the word spado, the Romans very forcibly expressed their abhorrence of this mutilated condition.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
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The sculpture was badly mutilated in the late eighteenth century.
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In the poem, Hector's body, attached to Achilles' chariot and dragged around Troy, cannot be mutilated because Aphrodite has anointed it with ambrosia.
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I preserved this mutilated object with uncommon care, watching it almost incessantly day and night: expecting another exuviation which might be attended with interesting consequences, I felt much anxiety for its survivance.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852
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Walsingham assigns assistant secretary and chief intelligencer John Shakespeare to investigate the scheme and quickly concludes the Drake plot is tied to the murder of a relative of the Queen Lady Blanche Howard, whose corpse mutilated with numerous stabbings was found in a London fire.
Martyr-Rory Clements « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
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The sculpture was badly mutilated in the late eighteenth century.
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The mother I knew during my lifetime was a beautiful and vain woman, one who resisted having a mastectomy for breast cancer because she could not bear to be, as she put it, "mutilated" and "disfigured.
We Remember - Eleanor Hatkin Freedman, 1924 - 1974
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They were both killed a few days later and their bodies mutilated.
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My force was standing knee-deep in mutilated bodies, surrounded by the guttural moans of dying people, looking into the eyes of children bleeding to death with their wounds burning in the sun and being invaded by maggots and flies," he later wrote.
Bystanders to Genocide
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The pilot was mutilated in the plane crash and now has only one leg.
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The principal item is the upper cave, small, square, and apparently still used by the Arabs: in the middle of the lintel is a lump looking like the mutilated capital of a column.
The Land of Midian
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This enraged many U.S. expansionists, not least Thomas Benton, who called the concession “a gratuitous and unaccountable sacrifice” that had “dismembered the valley of the Mississippi, mutilated two of our noblest rivers, and brought a foreign boundary to the neighborhood of New Orleans.”
A Country of Vast Designs
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The invaders cut off their prisoners' arms and legs and threw their mutilated bodies into the ditch.
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He had seen Frank's mutilated back when they had both been down for screening, and had been deeply shocked.
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The sculpture was badly mutilated in the late eighteenth century.
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There is another annoyance -- the risk of valuable cattle being houghed or otherwise mutilated; a risk calling for incessant watchfulness.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
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Many holly trees are cut down or mutilated by people in the run-up to Christmas.
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There were others like me, who had scrimped and saved to come to paradise for their dream vacation, only to wind up bent, folded, spindled and mutilated.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive
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The editor mutilated my text by removing whole paragraphs from it.
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Her arm was mutilated in the accident.
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The bust was mutilated in late antiquity, probably by Christians who carved a cross in the forehead.
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Fool Moon - The mutilated corpse of mobster Johnny Marcone's bodyguard is discovered by the police, only the murder weapon appears to be fangs and claws.
REVIEW: Wizard For Hire by Jim Butcher (SFBC Omnibus Collection)
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But now that he is dead, his body mutilated almost beyond recognition, it seems right to recall what he said.
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Many of the bodies were so mutilated that identification was difficult.
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Yet even if they were, what is to be said of that other not uncommon incident of legislative history, the legislative "strike," whereby corporations not protected by irrepealable charters are blandly confronted with the alternative of having their franchises mutilated or of paying handsomely for their immunity?
John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court
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Shave from me with sharp razors my lips, my nose, my ears -- ay, and tear out the eyes of me by the roots; and there, mewed in that featureless skull that is attached to a hacked and mangled torso, there in that cell of the chemic flesh, will still be I, unmutilated, undiminished.
Chapter 12
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Once again, scenes of explosions and mutilated bodies are back in our streets.
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The studio was empty, the couch and the bed gone, the screen taken away, but the place was otherwise unmutilated.
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The bodies were mutilated beyond recognition.
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Now, there was only the rock, the pick, and the pain of mutilated fingers forced to claw the rock away when the pick became too heavy to lift.
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These are often removed while the shark is alive: the mutilated animal is then thrown overboard.
Back Biodiversity 100, save our wildlife
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The nose is mutilated; the bust was apparently deliberately buried in late antiquity with a companion piece of slightly later date.
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David says his aunt and uncle were killed as they tried to escape and their bodies were mutilated.
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The nose is mutilated; the bust was apparently deliberately buried in late antiquity with a companion piece of slightly later date.
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There are already many genitally mutilated women and girls in America, and many others at risk of mutilation.
Nomad
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One sickening moment which springs to mind is the bit in ‘Titus’ when we see the mutilated Lavinia for the first time, in all her handless, tongueless glory.
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Her body had been mutilated beyond recognition.
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Given the "blueness" of Connecticut, the alleged strength of the Lamont groundswell, the fact that a lot of "less informed" general-election voters just vote the straight party ticket, and the fact that you can count the number of Senators elected in my lifetime without running on either the Democratic or the Republican tickets on the fingers of one mutilated hand, it's at least interesting that Lamont lost, isn't it?
Another lefty into the vortex.
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NFL career, Vick always will be known as the sicko who bankrolled an operation, Bad Newz Kennels, that mutilated dogs.
Undefined
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Then last week we learned the incredible: that the hotel cleaning woman may have been lying to police and prosecutors from the start, beginning with her 2004 application for asylum, where she claimed to have been gang-raped and genitally mutilated.
Len Levitt: The Case of DSK: Tragedy or Farce?
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At last a copeck rolled upon the ground, and the miserable creature — his mutilated arms, with their sleeves wet through and through, held out before him — stopped perplexed in the roadway and vanished from my sight.
Boyhood
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And in many parts of the word afflicted by the scourge of war, innocent people have not ceased being murdered, mutilated, or dragged or driven from their homes.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Won was mutilated by a fanbelt frum sleeping in ingine, teh other was hit–he came home but was so damaged that wii hadto “put him down”.
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De Man further explores the economy of "the mutilated body" in his analysis of the Kantian architectonics in
Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics
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Then we can work on preserving our history and not allow another irreplaceable structure to become a financial liability and vanish or be mutilated by another dumb-ass developer.
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For over a decade, the killer murdered and mutilated fourteen people; seven couples making out in parked cars.
The Monster of Florence-Douglas J. Preston and Mario Spezi « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
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In earlier, less complicated times an offender might be banished, mutilated or hanged.
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A crucial ventriloquist's dummy is hideously mutilated.
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The protesters mutilated the statue.
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On ITV, a new series of Taggart investigates a mutilated medic found in a warehouse, while over on Channel 5, CSI comes out fighting, kicking off season 11 in explosive fashion: there's a bombing at a funeral, a sexy new English technician and a knockout blow in the shape of singing fingerpuppet Justin Bieber, who guest stars in an episode called Shock Waves – possibly some kind of in-joke about hair products.
Tonight's TV highlights: Match Of The Day Live | Taggart; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Hugh's Big Fish Fight | Snog Marry Avoid | No Ordinary Family | True Stories: The Kids Grow Up
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She had been "mutilated" and written off as a terminal case by several licensed practitioners before García Miranda took charge of her care.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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Two of the dead were so badly mutilated no one had been able to identify them and they lay unclaimed, he said.
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A madman mutilated the painting by cutting holes in it.
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Shepherds found the mutilated bodies on Monday of two German nurses and a South Korean teacher who were kidnapped while picnicking in an area of Yemen known as a hideout for al-Qaida," the Associated Press reports from Sanaa, the Yemeni capital:
Silence Me Before I Kill Again
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In the State of Lu there was a disabled man called Shushan The Toeless . He got this strange name because when he was young his toes had been mutilated by the government for law breaking.
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Brecht's verdict was that his screenplay had been mutilated.
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January 4, George Wiltsie and Duane Lindenaur, secobarbital sedated, mutilated and killed.
The Big Nowhere
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Kodak pays Target US30¢ for each unmutilated shell.
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It needed only as a capsheaf the gleam of incredulous dismay which should appear in his wife's eyes when she looked first upon the mutilated tissue, the varying scars and cicatrices, the twisted mask that would be revealed to her as the face of her husband.
The Hidden Places
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Armed with an M16, Pantano was actually ejected from the Marines for desecrating the two corpses by emptying two full clips of sixty high-velocity bullets into their limp bodies and leaving an ugly hand-painted sign on the mutilated cadavers.
Michael Carmichael: Imam Rauf In Chapel Hill: What's Right With America
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According to the police the face of the slain person was hit with a boulder and it was badly mutilated.
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The inconvenience arising from a scarcity of money would have been of very short duration; for the mutilated pieces would have been detained only till they could be told and weighed; they would then have been sent back into circulation, and the recoinage would have taken place gradually and without any perceptible suspension or disturbance of trade.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4
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I'm not quite sure how, apart from the obvious indicators, eligibility would be further established, perhaps a body scan to determine the circumcised or genitally-mutilated, in addition to passengers producing additional documentary evidence (a baptismal certificate say, or copy of a police complaint laid against a priest from when you were an altar boy).
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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The editor mutilated my text by removing whole paragraphs from it.
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Here are the legless, armless, eyeless and toothless; the polio-crippled, the mine-maimed, the buboed and leprous, the self-mutilated and the plain mad.
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More than 30 horses have been mutilated in the last nine months.
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The invaders cut off their prisoners' arms and legs and threw their mutilated bodies into the ditch.
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Her body had been mutilated beyond recognition.
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Her arm was mutilated in the accident.
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The bodies of the victims were mutilated beyond recognition.
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Birch was then brutally bayoneted to death, his face mutilated beyond recognition.
A Covert Affair
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Mother named me Rowland, never knowing I'd get out here and have her nice, pretty name mutilated that way.
Rowdy of the Cross L
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She already shows signs of refusing to be "folded, spindled, or mutilated," to borrow an FSM phrase, rejecting Don's field of advertising as bullshit and saying that its incessant selling of products people don't actually need leads to "pollution.
William Bradley: Mad Men Review: "The Good News" Is Sad Yet Very Good
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Thus, if the tip were removed from a leaf of A. viridis and a half-lamina were then treated as if unmutilated, B would inevitably be increased and x could fall below 1.
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Waving an unmutilated flag on stage would have been lovely.
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Although badly mutilated by quarrying, some of the defences can still be traced, especially on the north and north-west sides.
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The bodies were mutilated beyond recognition.
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On patrol, game warden Jay Little Hawk discovers the bodies of a herd of mutilated deer.
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Missing/mutilated eyes and soft internal organs are explained as the action of carrion feeding insects such as blowflies, and opportunistic or carrion birds such as vultures and buzzards which are known to direct themselves toward an animal's eyes, and to enter the body through the openings of the mouth and anus in order to feed on soft internal organs.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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On patrol, game warden Jay Little Hawk discovers the bodies of a herd of mutilated deer.
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Her body had been mutilated beyond recognition.
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Goliath is a horrific giant cyclops; the drowning sinners trying to claw their way onto Noah's Ark are caught in flashbulb moments of terror and agony; Saul's army rends the raw meat of their slaughter as they try to avoid starvation; the mutilated corpses of Baanah and Rechab dangle from nooses in Hebron; the boiled heads of donkeys emerge from the cooking pot as starving Israelites look on with hungry eyes; Daniel's horned beast crushes a mountain of screaming men and women as it stalks the land; and in Revelations, the rains of fire, floods and famine lay waste to cities as horribly burned famine victims scream and claw at their flesh.
Boing Boing
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Many of their former confrères are absent, already out in the world being mutilated by the tabloids, or worse, discarded as unsuitable even for that.
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That beautiful face and body was buried unmutilated.
Times, Sunday Times
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Shave from me with sharp razors my lips, my nose, my ears -- ay, and tear out the eyes of me by the roots; and there, mewed in that featureless skull that is attached to a hacked and mangled torso, there in that cell of the chemic flesh, will still be I, unmutilated, undiminished.
Chapter 12
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Then, there are gratuitous horror elements thrown in and just as abruptly swept offstage, like the suggestion that one of the characters, badly mutilated by the fire, will emerge in the future as a "brilliant diabolist.
SNOW WHITE AND THE GIANTS by J. T. McIntosh (Avon 1968)
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mutilated bodies
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He said the second person killed, whose body was severely mutilated, may have been the man carrying the bomb.
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Religious customs play a part, but all over Africa, girls are routinely mutilated so they will be "marriageable", and wherever dowries are legal, they are sold into arranged marriages, traded for cows, whatever.
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He slashed her throat with a knife then mutilated her body and face.
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In the poem, Hector's body, attached to Achilles' chariot and dragged around Troy, cannot be mutilated because Aphrodite has anointed it with ambrosia.
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Errors include transposed numbers, faulty equipment, mutilated punch cards and computer glitches.
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disgustedly, she averted her eyes when they brought in the mutilated body of the horse
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The mother I knew during my lifetime was a beautiful and vain woman, one who resisted having a mastectomy for breast cancer because she could not bear to be, as she put it, 'mutilated' and 'disfigured.'
We Remember
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The mutilated bodies of seven men have been found beside a railway line.
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You also mutilated the dead bodies of our soldiers and treated them with indescribable indignities.
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The rocks and soil were mutilated into mush that could easily be swept away from the scene.
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Other well-known songs are recorded in mutilated versions, and usually sung by professional singers with such a stale perfunctoriness that you seem to smell the whisky and cigarette smoke coming off the record.
As I Please
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When the sisters' father went to the morgue to check, he found his daughter had not only been killed, but her body had been horrifically mutilated.
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metonymy" is a blind, mutilated metonymy — in fact, more of a catachresis than a metonymy.
Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History
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All three men were mutilated in the same manner — cuts from an implement known as a zoot stick, bites with the dentures the killer was wearing all over their abdominal areas.
The Big Nowhere
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The pilot was mutilated in the plane crash and now has only one leg.
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The nose is mutilated; the bust was apparently deliberately buried in late antiquity with a companion piece of slightly later date.
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Errors include transposed numbers, faulty equipment, mutilated punch cards and computer glitches.
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Others, through the compromise language of the birthparent disclosure veto, will receive only a false and mutilated government document with the name and address of the parent (s) bureaucratically excised by the Department of Health and Senior Services by order of the birthparent (s).
The Daily Bastardette
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But when preparing my Mss. for print I found the text incomplete, many of the stories being given in epitome and not a few ruthlessly mutilated with head or feet wanting.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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As a minor point, it might be remarked that he is the inventor of what may be called the mutilated villain.
Through the Magic Door
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Press reports said the bodies had been deliberately mutilated.
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But I'm content to let the language remain unmutilated and assume that right-thinking people remember all that.
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Ninety percent of Egyptian women are genitally mutilated, according to aid worker estimates.
Nina Burleigh: Egypt and the Universal Rights of Women
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And even if she did, in the noble spirit of altruism, rather than selfishness, the next woman, with one reproachful glance at her, would pick up the mutilated remains of the man's vanity and apply the splints of her respectful attention and the balm of her admiration, partly to add a new scalp to her belt, and partly to show off the unamiability of her sister woman.
From a Girl's Point of View
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Were the images destroyed, desecrated or mutilated because they were potent or impotent?
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Indians, — Ed. Page view page image: crenated and oblong, rather more obtuce at it's opex than the base or insertion, it's margin armed with prickles while it's disks are hairy, its insertion decurrent and position declineing. the flower is also dry and mutilated the pericarp seems much like that of the common thistle it rises to the hight of from
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
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Sometimes, you may find your most valuable work on coins mutilated by the abstraction of a plate, carried off by some student of numismatics.
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
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Identification was proving difficult because some of the bodies were severely mutilated.
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Beside the doorknob is a photograph of a halved screw attached to a piece of New Yorker letterhead that reads, "mutilated screw that came out of the MUNICIPAL BUILDING doorknob-see if I can find one to replace it.
The Chronicle
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The second volume of the geological record, called the Paleozoic (Greek, PALAIOS, ancient; ZOE, life), has come down to us far less mutilated and defaced than has the first volume, which contains the traces of the most ancient life of the globe.
The Elements of Geology
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Gone is the "pozolero" who dissolved bodies in vats of lye, gunbattles in front of hospitals and day care centers and mutilated bodies dumped near school yards.
Mexico Upset By California Efforts To Legalize Pot
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But we perceive that the obviously mutilated prophecy of Merlin the Magician and the apocryphal chronogram of the Venerable Bede had come under her notice.
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
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The gables, the pinnacles, and the tops of the canopies are the work of Sir Gilbert Scott, who found the sedilia in a mutilated condition.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric
