Some cruelties still pass for service done in her honour: no thumb-screw is used, no iron boot, no scorching of flesh; but plenty of controversial bruising, laceration, and even lifelong maiming.

He therefore vociferated to him: "I am now wholly free from wounds, and so is my horse, for I possess an elixir which heals the most cruel lacerations of the flesh the moment it is applied; but no such wounds were inflicted upon me, the arrows of Isfendiyár being only like needles sticking in my body."

I had only a small riding whip with me, having left my fire-arms with a friend at Fort Andrews, and much dreaded laceration.

Colonel Graham, who now came up to assist him, seeing the composure of his features, began to hope that he was not wounded, till he perceived the dreadful laceration.

"The horrible self-laceration of the European peoples, is the cruel confirmation of our warnings to the ruling classes for more than a generation; we have spoken admonishingly and in vain.

Men who have endured the lifelong laceration of taunt and sneer and suffered the loss of well nigh all things, there have been not a few.

You will pardon the momentary laceration of a wounded spirit, made sensitive by a recent collision with a minion of the law,in short, with a ribald turncock attached to the waterworks.

What agirl!" While he waited, legs swinging, astride the back fence, he examined his injuriesthoughtfully touched the triangular tear in his trousers, inspected minor sartorial and corporeal lacerations, set his hat firmly upon his head, and gazed across the monotony of the back-yard fences at Clarence.

" Again the rope whistled in the air, again it grided across the boy's naked back, and once more the crimson furrow bore witness to the violent laceration.