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  • I even dragged my acrophobic mother up mountains in the Auvergne, only to leave her quivering halfway up while I persevered alone to the top.
  • The bodies or severed heads of 67 "patients" lie in cryogenic storage at the site.
  • `The knife severed the spinal cord just where it enters the medulla. WITHOUT REMORSE
  • Could it be -- and the sudden thought stung him to the quick -- that she was deliberately and consciously degrading herself to what she knew was a lower plane of thought and life, that the bond of their older companionship might still remain unsevered? Phantom Wires A Novel
  • The knife severed an artery and he bled to death.
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  • “Murmurs, discontent, insurrections, rebellion, would inevitably ensue,” with a likely result that “our present glorious Union itself would be dissevered or dissolved.” A Country of Vast Designs
  • The sword wheeled and fell, and lo! the shield of the Saracen was severed in two. The Brethren
  • Alfred persevered, first inventing the blasting cap and then discovering that a silicaceous earth, kieselguhr, would stabilize nitroglycerin, thus making dynamite. Nobel, Alfred Bernhard
  • I slipped on the severed shank of a buffalo and fell hard into a ditch.
  • The axis and the scales that have been severed from their apophyses (b) can be easily pushed out of the annulus (a), which is composed wholly of apophyses so firmly adherent that they will successfully resist a strong effort to break them apart. The Genus Pinus
  • Creativity withers when these ties are forgotten, neglected or severed.
  • Ragged fire from the slug guns ended in a choking cloud of plaster dust and an ear-splitting roar as most of the west wall fell, severed from its foundations by the azoth Silk had received from Doctor Crane and given to Maytera Mint. Exodus From The Long Sun
  • One preternaturally long bony hand, a length of severed rope dangling from the wrist, clutched with clawed fingers at a sword gash in chain mail stained with dried blood. Conan The Invincible
  • The officials said the board's underground fibre-optic network between Dhaka and Cox's Bazar is often severed by the Roads and Highways Department and other agencies during maintenance work and by cable thieves, resulting in frequent service disruptions. Frequent optical cable cuts worry Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board
  • Lear's book of parrots was an immediate success and no doubt had he persevered with his ornithological studies he would have achieved immortality as a new Audubon.
  • The company has severed its connection/links/relationship/ties with its previous partners.
  • Despite a number of setbacks, they persevered in their attempts to fly around the world in a balloon.
  • With a few swift blows of the axe, she severed the cable.
  • When rising seas severed the link, a wide range of wildlife was left stranded on the newly-created island.
  • Simon Turner, arboricultural officer at Kennet District Council, said: ‘They have severed the roots and we are looking at measures to ensure the tree doesn't die or if it does die to get a replacement tree.’
  • He almost bled to death after the bullet severed an artery.
  • It will be seen, in fine, that in the main Obermüller does not differ from accepted theories in German ethnology, which have long carefully dissevered the Celts from the Teutons, and assigned to each tribe with approximate accuracy its earliest fixed abode in Europe. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
  • They both then rushed pell-mell to the doctor, carrying dead snake and severed thumb, and Henry laughed very heartily and unsympathetically because, as it happened, the snake was a non-poisonous variety.
  • This is a strange, liminal object: a maypole bedecked with slim red and black ribbons and chains from which hang aluminium plaques bearing grisly two-dimensional images of severed heads. Nancy Spero: no pity
  • The stone, striking the friar in the thigh at high speed, severed his femoral artery.
  • Police launched a murder inquiry almost eight weeks ago after disclosing that the cord on the main parachute and the strapping on his reserve chute had been deliberately severed.
  • This is how poor, flighty Lucy Westernra ought to float toward her demon lover - as if she were already severed from earthly ties.
  • They made a 3 inch incision and went into my chest; they found that the mammary (heh-heh, mammary) artery was severed so they ligated it. Drbigbeef Diary Entry
  • He persevered despite discouragement from those around him.
  • After execution he carried his severed head to the site of the present basilica of St Denis.
  • She persevered in her efforts to win the championship.
  • It seemed odd to consider such a connection after so many years of feeling those family connections severed.
  • Pegged-down strawberry runners may be lifted now, severed from the parent plant and planted out.
  • Early in that year 1500 he had asked Cesare to stand godfather for his child, and Cesare had readily consented, whereby a certain bond of relationship and good feeling had been established between them, which everything shows Gonzaga most anxious to preserve unsevered. The Life of Cesare Borgia
  • The comet was left a bare rock, with its severed tail wrapped around the front of the solar storm, known as a coronal mass ejection. Hurricane Chops Tail Off of Comet | Impact Lab
  • He could help her regain her health, even give her a sense of her own worth if he persevered.
  • The company ships about 30,000 of the bloodsuckers a year to doctors who specialize in reattaching severed fingers, ears, and other body parts.
  • The US severed diplomatic relations with Cuba in 1961.
  • They slew the gentle musician, tearing him limb from limb, and flung the severed head into the swift river Hebrus.
  • The doctor said I'd severed a vessel in my leg.
  • Then swiftly pulled it through the sinewy cord, laughing triumphantly he held huge severed equine testicle up for Berdan to see!
  • Ottawa's girls "persevered," though, to use Lady Pirates coach Mike Cooper's word for it, surviving a nailbiting final few minutes to top their hosts from Streator, 41-34. The Times Today's News
  • He was tired and his body was hurting all over, but he persevered.
  • Other frequenters of the cemetery I see before me — dark, silent figures, figures of persons whom still unsevered cords of memory seemed to have bound to the place for the rest of their lives, and compelled to wander, like unburied corpses, in quest of suitable tombs. Through Russia
  • by the end of which Courtnay had been given the sack from the confectioner's and Doreen had severed their engagement.
  • Australian TV executives were wary of such a project and its unabashed depiction of such swaggering women but Riley and Turner persevered and eventually won the day, delivering a classy, confident spoof of suburban sybarites.
  • Yet your mother persevered - she is still persevering.
  • They slew the gentle musician, tearing him limb from limb, and flung the severed head into the swift river Hebrus.
  • A snig of the red blade severed the thong; and the Indian's body sliding down from the withers of the horse, fell with a dull dead sound upon the turf. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness
  • Now you will notice that both those countries severed their connection with the past in comparatively modern times. Canada's Heritage of British Traditions
  • It came from the woods to the west, and simultaneously an object arched out of the trees, struck the ground and rolled bouncingly towards the rocks - a severed human head, the hideously painted face frozen in a snarl of death. The Conan Chronicles
  • Paramedics managed to find and pinch off the severed artery across his instep.
  • If the latter holes are made square or triangular (base uppermost), and the metal is cut with a cold chisel so as to leave the side nearest the edge unsevered, the parts may be turned up to form supports for the barrel. Things To Make
  • He had persevered to make things work with his ex, the only woman who had made his heart fibrillate.
  • I'm sure nobody believed us, but we persevered and luckily most of our sponsors have stuck by us.
  • The severed arm flopped to the ground, and the black man stood stock still facing his enemy, the sword jutting from his shoulder. Winter Warriors
  • The Wheel Spins Freely Sat in your leather armchair, you find yourself in the bay window of suburbia where sunshine casts friendly shadows as you turn the newspaper's brilliant page and only the hum of Sunday traffic seeping through the open window competes with the tick of the clock when the door explodes and your howling child throws himself before you and offers up the severed wheel from a favourite toy and demands through lime-green snot and salmon-pink eyes for you to intervene (as if you were some god whose powers extended to the very edges of knowing what living is like but by candlelight feared the devil in the mirror) and so you hold that severed wheel from a favourite toy and somewhere on the other side of the Universe you feel the numbed heart of a star collapse and die and you realise the swirl of the grain of the floorboards is the fingerprint of a WN.com - Articles related to '3 Idiots' triumphs at IIFA; Vidya, Kareena are best actresses
  • A 300-yard tunnel is being drilled through the mountainside to connect the two halves of the severed road again.
  • The "mouth" and "eyes" are those of a man, while the symbol is otherwise brutish, that is, it will assume man's true dignity, namely, wear the guise of the kingdom of God (which comes as the "Son of man" from above), while it is really bestial, namely, severed from God. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Shadows of pain echoed over his body, from the feeling of a limb being severed, to the feeling of a thousand boil poxes erupting from his skin all at once.
  • The Lord Nelson angler persevered for five hours, but in the end could only catch a few tiddlers.
  • The soles were dipped in special stimulating fluid, returned precisely into place, with accuracy sufficient to bring cell wall opposite cell wall, severed artery tight to severed artery, nerve fibril against nerve fibril. The Languages of Pao
  • After being blindfolded, she waited only a few seconds before a French swordsman severed her head from her delicate neck.
  • The emblements raised by labor, whether severed or not from the land of the deceased at the time of his death, are assets in the hands of the executor or administrator and shall be included in the inventory required by section 2115.02 of the Revised Code.
  • The bureaucratic layers between the U.S. forces and the secretary of defense were severed.
  • Finally, in one quick stroke with no time to debate the issue, the king had severed Parmenion from his soldiers and cashiered the old man to guard duty away from the army. Alexander the Great
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  • The company has severed its connection/links/relationship/ties with its previous partners.
  • We persevered through all the difficulties but got there in the end.
  • After an impassioned and joyous love affair, she severed their relationship in the late 1880s.
  • For the Doctor becomes "Trinitarian", almost regenerating, then directing the extra energy into his severed hand, which then becomes a Doctor who is part human and a Donna who is part Doctor. Doctor Who: Journey's End, Creation's End, God's End?
  • Electricity cables have been severed by the storm.
  • You have the image of the cutting off, the castration, of the power of generativity. All poetic potency, all power to assert oneself in the world, can be severed and that's it.
  • Perhaps I have dozed a bit, for I must have turned the coin, unthinking, and now I see the reverse: a horseman, in full panoply, galloping, with naked sword brandished in his left hand, from which depends a severed head tight-clutched by long, flowing hair. The Lion's Brood
  • Could he be a pirate captain, eager to hang my severed head from the bow of his corsair?
  • And as a bondmaid steals away from a wealthy house, whom fate has lately severed from her native land, nor yet has she made trial of grievous toil, but still unschooled to misery and shrinking in terror from slavish tasks, goes about beneath the cruel hands of a mistress; even so the lovely maiden rushed forth from her home. The Argonautica
  • No artery or important blood vessel was severed by any of the wounds inflicted upon him, but he was for a long time insensible from the loss of blood. Foreign and Colonial Intelligence
  • The nerve, however, is severed at the preformed autotomy breakage plane and the nerve stub retracts into the coxal stump.
  • His hand was severed from his arm.
  • In i, all signalized secondary crossing points are severed across half the city. Olympic Line (short) closure notice « Stephen Rees's blog
  • cleaved," the fractured part is more readily severed, and usually takes The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
  • It was learned that a rifle ball had severed a leg artery and that his boot was filling with blood.
  • Pegged-down strawberry runners may be lifted now, severed from the parent plant and planted out.
  • Dalian Medical University told ABC News that it severed its ties to the plastination lab several years ago. NYC 'Bodies' Exhibit Must Refund Tickets For Using Undocumented Corpses - The Consumerist
  • When the user releases the mouse button, input focus is severed, and nothing happens.
  • We have severed diplomatic relations with that country.
  • In 1992 the company severed its family ties and was sold to the London jeweller Asprey.
  • Further, a vestigial cut off from its source disappears — for example, a reflected light — and in general an emanant loses its quality once it is severed from the original which it reproduces: just so the powers derived from that source must vanish if they do not remain attached to it. The Six Enneads.
  • Wild at Heart" is Lynch's punchiest, campiest and most violent movie, featuring Willem Dafoe's spectacularly shot-off head, a severed hand, lots of sex, vomit, dirty talk and a leitmotif of gigantic close-ups of matches igniting. David Lynch's New Peak
  • A big flash flood in 1634 severed the old Nordstrand or the north beach, into Nordstrand and Pellworm Islands, and the islet, in German holm, Nordstrandischmoor. The Jakarta Post Breaking News
  • He almost bled to death after a bullet severed an artery.
  • The stone, striking the friar in the thigh at high speed, severed his femoral artery.
  • Gueldersdorp, severed from the South by this opening act of war, must find her salvation thenceforwards in the cool brains and steady nerves of the handful of defenders behind her sand-bags, when the hour of need should come. The Dop Doctor
  • The Mule tried to hold himself upright, his torso severed and disjointed by a flabby crack in the mirror, his arms flailing out to either side and trying to latch onto the shoulders of two other stoned zombies who'd risen with him.
  • If ob is the nominee ..... who will he run to for "spiritual" guidance after McCain slaughters him in the general? bet those ties aren't severed after all. Schneider: How did Clinton win big?
  • It is often a long and difficult job to get some of the Algae; with their tender connections unsevered from the hard rock, which must be chipped away with the chisel, and often with the blows of the hammer deadened by being struck under water. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861
  • Just picture those National Geographic locations where endless deserted sugar sand beaches, severed by rocky outcrops, fall into the nutrient rich bounteous waters of the Cortez sea of dreams and the mighty Pacific Ocean.
  • The repetition of Hewet’s name in short, dissevered syllables was to them the crack of a dry branch or the laughter of a bird. The Voyage Out
  • A team of microsurgeons reattached a man's hand after it was severed in a brawl overnight, a hospital spokesman said yesterday.
  • How this can happen with a severed corpus callosum is a good question. Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID
  • The sternohyoid and omohyoid muscles were divided; the internal jugular vein was cut through, and its cut ends were collapsed and 3/4 inch apart; the common carotid artery was cut into, but not divided; the thyroid cartilage was notched, and the external and anterior jugular veins were severed. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • Dr Mason then severed two nerves during the second operation, causing severe bleeding to the patient.
  • It's a sorry sight to see two stunted propshafts, encrusted with marine growth, but he films the severed ends anyway.
  • Some were mortally wounded, some received moderate injuries (such as burns, shot wounds and severed veins) and others were lightly injured.
  • `The knife severed the spinal cord just where it enters the medulla. WITHOUT REMORSE
  • There were a lot of the fun things to be dissevered.
  • If the superficial lateral incision C, Fig. 1, be made too deeply at its forepart, the artery of the bulb, even when in its usual place, will be wounded; and if the deep lateral incision D be carried too far outwards, the trunk of the pudic artery will be severed. Surgical Anatomy
  • Richardson severed his right foot in a motorbike accident.
  • If the tissues are severed by a sharp instrument and the edges of the wound are smooth, it is classed as an _incised_ or _clean-cut wound_. Common Diseases of Farm Animals
  • After an unhappy childhood, Catherine severed all contact with her mother.
  • They preferred to get killed because they did not want to be severed from their roots.
  • The student and parents have severed all contact due to circumstances that would constitute endangerment to the student.
  • She asked for a shot of Vodka and sat patiently as the bartender severed the drink.
  • In 1984 the long link between AC Cars and the Hurlock family was severed.
  • Following confirmation earlier this year that her US label shelved Goodrem's current album until new material is available, comes word the songbird, along with fiance Brian McFadden, have severed ties with Modest Management without releasing a public statement. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
  • Mijnheer took up a root here and there, telling her something of the history of each; explaining how the narcissus increased and the tulips grew; showing her hyacinth bulbs cut in half-breadthways with all the separate severed layers distended by reason of the growing and swelling of the seeds between. The Good Comrade
  • In studying responses of patients in which the corpus callosum connecting the left and right brain had been severed, the researchers found that information about beliefs and intentions from the right brain had to reach the judgmental processes in the left brain to reach the correct moral judgment. Dr. Douglas Fields: Of Two Minds on Morality
  • She has severed all contact with her family.
  • The tail of the plane was found severed from the fuselage after the crash.
  • Still, we persevered and in spite of the traffic it was soon actually rather pleasant.
  • If you strayed but a little way from the core of the town you came into narrow, kinkled streets, where nets were stretched across from window to window drying; and if you persevered you came, by cobbly declivities, to the bay shore, and to all the odd places that lay along it, and all the odd people that dwelt therein. Marjorie
  • Martin's hand was severed in the accident.
  • Still, he persevered, locking horns with Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote and critic Michiko Katutani, who he described as a "one-woman kamikaze", during his career. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Dr Li told the Guardian that it was unclear how the broken palps continued to inseminate the female after being severed from the male, but said such "remote copulation" was more than a simple draining of sperm into the female. Male spiders sacrifice their genitals to fertilise big hungry females
  • He was not going to abandon a diagnosis of fractured tibia simply because blood was pouring from a severed hand. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
  • She smashed the head of the lich whose legs were severed at the knees, then did the same to one whose rusty sword flailed wildly even though its pelvis lay to one side of the upper body. Lord of the Isles
  • With this object, the caddis worm cuts its moorings, that is to say, the rootlets which keep the cylinder fixed, or else the half-severed leaf of pond weed on which the cone-shaped bag has come into being. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
  • And supposing we should grant that this affection or disposition is the very thing which we call the appetite, it is probable that, by the operation of such kind of food as this, the nourishment may be made small, and so much of it as is convenient for Nature severed from the rest, so that the indigency proceeds not from the transmutation, but from the evacuation and purgation of the passages. Essays and Miscellanies
  • Thanks to the treaties of Madrid and Cambrai, all connection with France had been severed, but the Reichstag endeavoured, on several occasions, to revive the nominal rights of the Empire on the Low Countries and to compel the provinces to pay the imperial tax. Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day
  • As torrential rain fell Malton still persevered with an adventurous and open game.
  • Now we are a largely urbanised society, and the country roots of most people have been severed.
  • He made clear that the prince is the state's head, and that it ineluctably followed that the tyrant, or prince who misruled, must be killed so that the head is severed from the body.
  • `The knife severed the spinal cord just where it enters the medulla. WITHOUT REMORSE
  • She even planned to offer a $150 bounty for the severed forelimb of each killed wolf. Think Progress » Tea party leaders say they would ‘absolutely’ abolish Social Security.
  • Despite a number of setbacks, they persevered in their attempts to fly around the world in a balloon.
  • One of the most puzzling emanations of Sati appears to symbolize this: Chinnamasta, holding her severed head in her hand, drinking the blood spurting from her neck.
  • His head was severed from his body
  • A hole had been cut in her windpipe and the main artery in her neck had been severed almost all the way through.
  • She had severed all contact with her ex-husband.
  • On yonder distant shore blazed the mighty Empire of the Sun in warm and blissful radiance, while on this side, in shadows cold and dark, gloomed the Hither Isles and the hill that once was golden, but now was green and slimy dross; all below was the sad and moaning sea, while between the Here and There flew the severed hand and dripped the bleeding heart. DARKWATER
  • Species of Money than Gold (1691): “what we call commodities is nothing but land severed from the soil; man deals in nothing but earth.” System der volkswirthschaft. English
  • For fans of actors flubbing their lines and breaking character, check out the ‘Severed Parts’ gag reel.
  • Though married in haste they did not wait for leisure before they repented, but commenced quarrelling at once, until _Esmé_, in order to test his love and that of an admirer who was helping to complicate matters, "bobbed" her hair and threw the severed tresses at her husband. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 12, 1919
  • But whatever we may think on this doubtful point, if, as long as the bodies remain unaltered, the light is constant and unsevered, then it would seem natural that, on the dissolution of the body, the light — both that in immediate contact and any other attached to that — should pass away at the same moment, unseen in the going as in the coming. The Six Enneads.
  • The carnivorous flower's first warning that all was not well was received when Stevens 'steel-shod feet landed squarely upon its base and one sweeping cut of his sword lopped off the malignant blossom and severed the two tendrils that still held the unconscious Nadia. Spacehounds of IPC
  • During lung transplantation, both the afferent and efferent nerves that supply the lung are severed.
  • In February 1929, a student paper reported that they had kept a severed dog's head alive for three and a half hours with "a queer-looking affair made of glass and rubber tubing".
  • Instead of giving up on life, though, he persevered and found an experimental treatment for his paralysis called an "exoskeleton" that allowed him to stand and finally walk again at his recent graduation from the University of California, Berkley. VIDEO: Paralyzed Student Walks Again at Graduation
  • She had persevered in her claim for compensation.
  • Strike from omnipotence; all-seer, all-deemer and haunt my severed country with your dripping, secret games You pick the unripe lilies deflored and peeled the bleeding petals made known to me the grainy stains, the crimson lotus of the WN.com - Articles related to Actor Danny Glover Shares his Candid Mother's Day Memories with Fathers' Rights Attorney Jeffery Leving on 106.3FM
  • He was gritting his teeth against the pain, keeping it at bay while he studied the stump, the severed hand.
  • A 300-yard tunnel is being drilled through the mountainside to connect the two halves of the severed road again.
  • One boy lay swathed in bandages on a stretcher, his severed leg beside him.
  • Texas coach Gail Goestenkors said her team "persevered" following a tiring trip to the Virgin Islands. Statesman - AP Sports
  • Behold the maiden on her way, the destroyer of Ilium's town and its Phrygians, with garlands twined about her head, and drops of lustral water on her, soon to besprinkle with her gushing blood the altar of a murderous goddess, what time her shapely neck is severed. Iphigenia at Aulis
  • Japan simultaneously severed its ties with Taiwan, replacing its embassy with a nonofficial office.
  • Even though she had yet to be successful in almost all her attempts over the course of time, she persevered.
  • For the measurements, stem was severed above the collar region and the roots sealed in the pressure chamber.
  • They had the focus, determination and persevered, which is what the National Team Development Program is all about. Undefined
  • Perhaps you've punched your PC, pummelled your printer or severed a server; maybe you've blown a fuse trying to solve a problem while talking to tech support and threatened to break someone's legs.
  • Her severed head flopped on a bin of guts, yellow beak in a grimace - take me with you?
  • He persevered despite discouragement from those around him.
  • Tendons were severed, sinews slit and flesh shredded.
  • He fell on his left elbow and severed his ulnar nerve, which meant he lost the use of his left hand, and an operation to repair the problem failed.
  • He persevered despite discouragement from those around him.
  • It was high school which severed our connection, for what would become years.
  • Nonetheless, the E . U . troika persevered, despite U.S. scepticism at their approach.
  • The Sandrat bit into the wrist of one of the Minutemen, chewing until she severed the artery.
  • I do not know that great physical difference existed to the advantage of the murderess between her and her older victim, Mrs Phoebe Hogg, who, with her baby, was done to death by Mrs Pearcy in October 1890, but the fact that Mrs Hogg had been battered about the head, and that the head had been almost severed from the body, would seem to indicate that the murderess was the stronger of the two women. She Stands Accused
  • Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) and the police picking some severed human parts of the victims into their vehicles. Thisday Online
  • In the 1930s, Dr. Egas Moniz, a Portuguese neurologist, began experimenting with a new form of what became known as the prefrontal lobotomy, a radical surgery that severed nerve fibers in the part of the brain associated with emotions. 20 High Resolution Photos From Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island | /Film
  • Maybe if I had persevered just a little longer, I would have been a fan right from the beginning - aargh.
  • A pensioner sparked a murder hunt after he severed his finger with a powersaw, sending the digit flying into the garden of a neighbour who believed it was evidence of a grisly crime.
  • The Italian branches of the Habsburg and Bourbon dynasties were severed from their parent houses.
  • The deep channel often had a strong current but we still persevered (maybe a little recklessly) and swam out to the sandbanks to join the seals who basked there.
  • Being compelled, at last, to retire without their object -- though not without threatening Catherine with the thumbikins, if she persevered in refusing to discover her lover's retreat -- the family of Barjarg was once more left to enjoy its wonted quietude and peace. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17
  • The layer should be well rooted and ready to be severed from the parent plant by the following autumn.
  • The two countries have severed all diplomatic links.
  • Severed from the familiar background o f the house in which she has lived for 70 years, she hallucinates her fears.
  • In 1992 the company severed its family ties and was sold to the London jeweller Asprey.
  • The head is then severed from the animal whereafter it is handed to the father of the owner.
  • The severed digit was wrapped in cling film by the little girl's concerned mum, and is currently in a freezer at Fulford Road police station.
  • The enemy's foremast was severed just below the fighting top and plunged through two decks; then his maintopmast went.
  • Payton could still smell the sour smoke coming from the severed wires.
  • She was immediately set upon by his faithful setter, who sank fangs deep into the vampire's throat and almost severed her head from her body.
  • The new franchise has not completely severed its links with that legacy.
  • They persevered and thoroughly deserved their lead on the half hour.
  • Many of them were distinguished by the representation of a Guillotine in miniature, and a head just severed, on their cartouch-boxes. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part II., 1793 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
  • Despite the driving rain and the slippy under-foot conditions, both teams severed up some fine passages of play.
  • In aquarium conditions such attempts are usually doomed to failure due to bacteria attacking the severed portions before the wounds heal.
  • He severed a tendon when he tried to block, with his foot, a bottle of cologne falling to the floor.
  • At the height of her fame and with audiences still going gaga for her, she dramatically severed her ties to cinema.
  • She'll be smashed to matchwood in a minute, the after-fall has unshipped; "then whipping a knife from the belt of one of them he severed the remaining fall, and saw the boat plunge down sternwards and outwards from the side just in time; another half-minute and she would have disappeared under the steamer's bottom to be hopelessly stove in. Tessa 1901
  • He dissevered branches from the stem.
  • They also persevered with a 'stallholder' scheme, whereby mothers effectively act as the company's agents or sub-contractors. More on children's books; and branding
  • He went on to say that “dervish” does not denote those persons who wander about, spending their nights and days in fighting and folly; rather, He said, the term designates those who are completely severed from all but God, who cleave to His laws, are firm in His Faith, loyal to His Covenant, and constant in worship. Memorials of the Faithful
  • The gun bounced in his grasp as incandescent energy leapt to evaporate a stretch of that many-times-severed, yet still tenacious limb.
  • They'd torn my shirt off and used rags of that to staunch the blood trickling from the remaining stump of my little finger where it'd been severed at the last joint.
  • After suffering each variety of insult and torture, his head was severed from his body, the mangled trunk was cast into the flames, and the same treatment was inflicted on the statues of the vain usurper, and the seditious banner of the green faction. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Thou shalt have it, severed from my head by this accurse steel," answered Wallace, taking off his bonnet, and letting his amber locks fall in tresses on his shoulders. The Scottish Chiefs

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