1570 examples of lanced in sentences

The domestics, who had been for some time listening to the dispute, on hearing the scuffle, ran in and parted the angry combatants, who, like an abscess just lanced, were giving vent to all the malignant humours that had been so long silently gathering.

Maybe he hit his hand on something when he fell; maybe he jabbed it on a buckle; maybe he had a boil on his hand and lanced it with his knife.

They, therefore, brought him out, to do with him according to their law: and first they scourged him, then they buffeted him, then they lanced his flesh with knives; after that they stoned him with stones; then pricked him with their swords; and last of all, they burned him to ashes at the stake.

Grief, its effects upon the mother's milk, 34. Gums, of the infant in difficult dentition, the importance of their being lanced, 140.

Say, the next time you expect to get lanced for the big feed tell her you were once in the business and it will save you money.

Two noble sea-elephants were also lanced, animals that measured near thirty feet in length, each of which yielded a very ample return for the risk and trouble of taking it, in oil.

The utmost care was taken to give no unnecessary alarm; and when an animal was lanced, it was done in such a quiet way as to produce as little commotion as possible.

" "The commodore says that the critturs are to be treated delicately," said Macy, laughing, as he lanced his first seal that morning, a young one of the fur species; "so take up the pet, lads, and lay it in its cradle, while I go look for its mamma.

With this instrument, it being poisoned with the gum of the Upas, the unhappy wretches were lanced in the middle of their breasts, and the operation was performed upon them all in less than two minutes.

My astonishment was raised to the highest degree, when I beheld the sudden effects of that poison, for in about five minutes after they were lanced, they were taken with a tremor, attended with a subsultus tendinum, after which they died in the greatest agonies, crying out to God and Mahomet for mercy.

Mr. Cruikshank apprehended that a mortification might be the consequence; but, to appease a distempered fancy, he gently lanced the surface.

An intelligent Havildar of the Customs Department, who chanced to be present, then lanced the wound slightly to let the blood flow, and tied the leg tightly in two places above it.

I am afraid that lock-jaw will set in if he does not consent to have the felon lanced.

Atkinson had his foot lanced and should be well in a couple of days.

A pang lanced through her as she caught herself senselessly recalling the flag presentation.

They lanced him through with arraignment as, still waving her beseechingly, commandingly back, with weapons undrawn the more swiftly to part the way before him, his frenzy for Anna drew him on, as full of introspection as a drowning man, thinking a year's thoughts at every step.

Then: Spurt after spurt of fire lanced the darkness, directed at the Thing in the window.

On the pike is lanced the horseman Headless stands the Cossack there!

Before they retired Madame Guix asked if there were any who felt the slightest ill, for it were better to nip sickness in the bud, and she cheerfully lanced festers and pricked blisters, bathed, powdered and bandaged the feet of some dozen old and decrepit men and young children unaccustomed to such forced marching and unable to take proper care of themselves for want of time and hot water!

The searchlight lanced its way ahead, into the vague drift of the smoke arising from New York.

" He lanced it then and there, and I went on with my part for that night.

They said that if George Stoker had not lanced the thumb that minute, I should have lost my arm.

"If we had reserved our fire, we should all have been lanced by this time.

Presently he saw that two of his rancheros had been lanced, and that there were but four left.

One driver had been lanced mortally.

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