He then took the net off from the end of the ditch, and taking out, one by one, the ducks that were in it, dislocated their necks.

The hand is jerked out by the one with the velocity of a rocket, and comes so unexpectedly to the length of its tether, that it nearly dislocates the shoulder bone.

He had proceeded but a short distance, however, when he fell from his horse and broke his ribs and dislocated his shoulder, whereat he cried, "Ai, ai!"

So violent was the jerk from the taffrail, that it seemed as if it would have dislocated his arms.

Alarmed at my situation, I descended on the other side too quickly, and in my fall nearly dislocated my ankle.

The princess was thrown out upon the hard ground, and badly dislocated her right wrist.

I never to a ball will go, That poor pretence for prancing, Where Jenkins dislocates a toe, And Tomkins thinks he's dancing:

I have sat whole weeks without sleep by the side of an athanor, to watch the moment of projection; I have made the first experiment in nineteen diving engines of new construction; I have fallen eleven times speechless under the shock of electricity; I have twice dislocated my limbs, and once fractured my skull, in essaying to fly[l]; and four times endangered my life by submitting to the transfusion of blood.

An accident on the line had dislocated the traffic.

We were catching a large number of beavers and were prospering finely, when one of our oxen, having become rather poor, slipped and fell upon the ice, dislocating his hip, so that we had to shoot him to end his misery.

Shearing the House of Lords of political power did not dislocate the administration of English justice, because the law lords are exclusively judges.

They feel the sweep of immense passions; ecstasies and horrors convulse and dislocate their minds; but they do not, cannot, understand.

This game was carried on for some time, each as determined as the other, grasping; snatching, and pulling this unfortunate piece of furniture until one wrench, stronger than the former, entirely dislocated its component parts, and laid it in a ruined heap upon the ground.

The daughter fell ill at the last moment, and her parents first telegraphed her excuses for dislocating the party, and then repeated them earnestly on arriving.

But, from a hasty exploration which was conducted on board, it was evident that the shot had not only dislocated the inner plating of the double bottom, but had penetrated the bunker compartment, stored as it was with coal, that the watertight doors and compartments had ceased to operate, and that water was flowing into the hull through a hundred crevices.

"He has dislocated all his puppets, strewed the ground with the débris of his fancies, and he is not yet content,'What do you want, you wretched baby?''I want the moon!'

The Viennese ministry promised to exchange them, as fast as could be done without encountering great expense or dislocating the regiments and making them inefficient.

Merchant princes confronted the princes of the state and those of the church, and their presence and power dislocated the old social relations.

For a few moments, indeed, the result of the struggle seemed doubtful, and Mrs. Wilde at length, by a violent effort, raised herself almost upright, with the infuriated slave still hanging to her throat; but the latter converted this into an advantage, by suddenly throwing her whole weight upon the breast of her mistress, thus casting her violently backward across the head-board of the bed, and dislocating the spine.

On Mar. 28th the 'Sir Henry Pottinger' was launched from Fairbairn's Yard on the Isle of Dogs, where I was thrown down and dislocated my right thumb.

He hates a Mister, anyhow, and 'Peter Phipps' will dislocate his tongue.

To the self-complacent eighteenth century those doctrines came as “a salutary shock, dislocating the compact mass of one-sided opinion.”

The Legion's theft of the stone had completely dislocated all the most important beliefs and customs of Islam.]

He photographed it from every point of the compass, and made a magnificent effort to dislocate his collarbone by falling from a tree up which Holman had urged him to climb so that he could get a view of the upper surface.

He now made a quick movementand so did I. Whisking round, in an instant I had his wrist in that kind of grip that dislocates the elbow-joint, and, as I turned, I planted my foot heavily on Spotty Bamber's chest.