There it became necessary to amputate his leg, and Zahn surrendered what little courage he had left.

They amputated his arm in France, patched him up, an' sent him back to New York with a lot of other wounded soldiers.

French chivalry could hardly believe that a doctor would amputate a wounded enemy's limb without absolute necessity and in mere revenge, but such cases are, alas, not rare.

We have an indefinable impression that the rajah is a sensuous, indolent, extravagant sybarite, given to polo, diamonds and dancing girls, and amputates the heads of his subjects at pleasure; but that is very far from the truth.

"You don't think it necessary to put the arm in a splint, or to fasten weights to it, or to amputate the first joint of the thumb?" "I am sorry to say that is all I know how to do for you, Miss Vernor.

The Sacrilege Law introduced in 1825 had revived the barbarous mediaeval penalty of amputating the hand of the offender.

As I rushed past the ticket-puncher she made a vicious lunge at my out-stretched hand with an enormous pair of pincers, missing the ticket and partially amputating my thumb.

Much as the majority of people detest the preposterously clumsy attempts to amputate Ireland from the rule of the British Parliament which have been going on since the breakdown of Mr. Gladstone's political intelligence, their dread of foolish and scoundrelly fiscal adventurers is sufficiently strong to retain the Liberals in office.

I'm going down to the office and amputate somebody.

What was my astonishment to find that a German army surgeon had amputated his thigh?

It had to be amputated first thing, as a matter of fact.

However, we entered into the presence of Zagathai with fear and bashfulness; he was sitting on a bed, having a small citern or lute in his hand, and his wife sat beside him, who, I really believe, had amputated her nose, between the eyes, that it might be the flatter, for she had no nose in that part of her face, which was smeared over with black ointment, as were also her eyebrows, which seemed very filthy in our eyes.