The torture of the slow death as the circling warriors cut him to bits with the fiendish skill, that
mutilated without bringing unconsciousness, had no terrors for him.
I was out with a small scouting party and found your body, full of bullet-holes and newly scalped-- somewhat
mutilated otherwise, too, I am sorry to say--right where you say you made your fight.
That night the doors were again broken open, the padlocks smashed, the books
mutilated, and other disorders perpetrated."
From its
mutilated fin still hung a young whale which it could not save from the massacre.
Arms, legs, and
mutilated bodies were blown into the air, and dreadful havoc was made in the surrounding canoes.
With keen eyes he searched the ground about the
mutilated corpse for a sign of the missing pouch of pretty pebbles; but naught could he see of it.
And so I could not bring myself to believe that such a gallant tale had been left maimed and
mutilated, and I laid the blame on Time, the devourer and destroyer of all things, that had either concealed or consumed it.
The popular system of administration inherent in the nature of popular government, coinciding with the real scarcity of money incident to a languid and
mutilated state of trade, has hitherto defeated every experiment for extensive collections, and has at length taught the different legislatures the folly of attempting them.
All day a thousand cruisers have been searching for him until just now one of them returns bearing his dead body, which was found in the pits beneath his house horribly
mutilated by some assassin.
On the day of its publication a wretched dog, flayed and otherwise
mutilated, escaped from Moreau's house.
In another instant Mbonga's knife would sever one of the victim's ears--that would mark the beginning of the end, for very shortly after only a writhing mass of
mutilated flesh would remain.
Years ago four dead bodies of white men, scalped and shamefully
mutilated, were found about the mouth of that cave.