158 adjectives to describe cuts

There is not so much bleeding in these cases as in clean cuts, because the blood-vessels are torn across in a zigzag manner, and not divided straight across.

By this time, Mrs. Kinloch's son, Hugh Branning, who had been to the stable with the horse and carriage, came whistling through the yard, and cutting off weeds or twigs along the path with sharp cuts of his whip.

This was an unkind cut indeed"My very dog," sighed poor Rip, "has forgotten me!" He entered the house, which, to tell the truth, Dame Van Winkle had always kept in neat order.

In slight cuts, Nature plugs up the wound with clots of blood, and thus prevents excessive bleeding.

He met Perdosa's rush with two swift blowsa short arm jab and an upper-cut.

It was not alleged that any present necessity existed for this narrower cut in the bottom of the present channel, but it is inferred that for the reason stated it may hereafter become necessary.

"I think," said Simmonds, who, if he possessed an imagination, never permitted it to be suspected, "that those little cuts on the hand are merely an accident.

I got nothing worse than a black eye, but the man I had rescued bled from some ugly cuts which I had much ado stanching.

In the apparatus of Mr. Angele, of Berlin, shown in the annexed cuts (Figs. 1 and 2), the potatoes, after being cleaned in the washer, C, slide through the chute, v, into a rasp, D, which reduces them to a fine pulp under the action of a continuous current of water led in by the pipe, d.

This, while they shuffled toward it, grew higher and broader, until they lay prone in the very door of the hill,a large, square-cut portal, deeply overhung by the edge of the clay-pit, and flanked with what seemed a bulkhead of sand-bags piled in orderly tiers.

Oftentimes, in severe cuts, and generally in lacerations, there is a loss of tissue, so that the wound heals by "second intention"; that is, the wound heals from the bottom by a deposit of new cells called granulations, which gradually fill it up.

I took the straight cut for the ford, and when I got there I found that Donnegan had been there before me.

The accompanying cuts present us with specimens of stoves, both ancient and modern.

"The captain seems to have had a nasty cut across the cheek," I remarked, whereupon my two companions again exchanged quick, apprehensive glances.

"Well, I think its strange, astonished expression, due to the total absence of eyebrows, and the funny foreign cut of the hair.

As he sat there, in his grey tweed suit, his hat pushed carelessly back from his forehead, he might have been mistaken for a young man of wealth with no serious business in life, for his clothes were of fashionable cut, and he wore them with an air of distinction.

Reaching the point of separation, he halted, and, dividing his party, directed a sergeant, with a few dragoons, to take the near cut, and possess, with all possible dispatch, the bridge, while he, with the rest of his men, followed Champe.

Captain Jack answered the agonized appeal as he would never have responded to the cruel cut of spurs and leaped ahead in a desperate race to beat Old Blue and his precious burden to the greedy sands of the Cimarron.

They are needed to determine methods of increasing our annual cut for pulp and paper.

"Let any man of spirit and feeling, for a moment cast his thoughts over this land of slaverythink of the nakedness of some, the hungry yearnings of others, the flowing tears and heaving sighs of parting relations, the wailings and wo, the bloody cut of the keen lash, and the frightful scream that rends the very skiesand all this to gratify ambition, lust, pride, avarice, vanity, and other depraved feelings of the human heart....

Make a small horizontal cut in the bark of the stock, and also a vertical one about an inch long, thus forming an elongated T shape.

I relinquished my hold and rolled in, hoping thus to escape him; but he returned to the attack, and, throwing himself upon me, inflicted numerous severe cuts upon my face and breast before I could again seize him.

of our total lumber cut.

The waste was enormous, since only the choicest cuts of meat were used.

Manual of practical office short cuts.

158 adjectives to describe  cuts