422 examples of maims in sentences

They were lazy and mutinous; the sentries went to sleep, the scouts were unreliable, they were full of complaints; whilst round about him were the natives, ready to steal, maim, and murder whenever they could get an opportunity.

If suddenly beset by seven or eight of these desert police, the Gaucho malo slashes right and left with his redoubted knife,kills one, maims another, wounds them all.

But he first exacted from them an oath that they would neither maim nor kill any of the cattle which they saw grazing, but content themselves with such food as Circe had stowed their vessel with when they parted from Ææa.

If thou shouldst a soldier be, And a wound should trouble thee, If without the soldier's fame Thou to chance shouldst owe a maim, Do not for a little pain

If two hens happen to have their broods at the same time, their respective chicks should be carefully kept separate; as, if they get mixed, and so go under the wrong coop, the hens will probably maim and destroy those who have mistaken their dwelling.

Let us slaughter them, maim them, outrage them, burn their houses, destroy their crops!

The following is the original, epistle of this famous lunatic to the matron of Bedlam; No other proof is necessary of her insanity: Madam,I've recollected perhaps 'tis necessary to acquaint you upon what account I continue here yet, maim, after making you privy to my great concerns, madam I only wait for alteration of the globe which belongs to this house, maim and if the time is almost expired I wish to know it maim.

The following is the original, epistle of this famous lunatic to the matron of Bedlam; No other proof is necessary of her insanity: Madam,I've recollected perhaps 'tis necessary to acquaint you upon what account I continue here yet, maim, after making you privy to my great concerns, madam I only wait for alteration of the globe which belongs to this house, maim and if the time is almost expired I wish to know it maim.

The following is the original, epistle of this famous lunatic to the matron of Bedlam; No other proof is necessary of her insanity: Madam,I've recollected perhaps 'tis necessary to acquaint you upon what account I continue here yet, maim, after making you privy to my great concerns, madam I only wait for alteration of the globe which belongs to this house, maim and if the time is almost expired I wish to know it maim.

Tho' I am not unhealthy, yet I am very weak, know maim

therefore I hope it won't be long maim.

'Tis not that wilful seasons have gone wrong, But care maims slumber, and the nights seem long.

And not only so, he argues against the principle of his own aphorism; and says, "It is certainly to be feared that, if this pruning of our words of all the superfluous letters, as they are called, should be much farther indulged, we shall quickly antiquate our most respectable authors, and irreparably maim our language.

Never did he kill or maim either citizen or child, to the secret chagrin of Judge Penniman.

So living mars and defaces and maims, and living appears wantonly to soil and to degrade its prey before destroying it.

In the hideous walled cities of China, the same thought had often come to Bedientthat these myriads had been condemned by the sins of their past lives, blindly to gather together and maim each others' souls.

For though the best of them could not support a play, the worst of them by their absence could maim it; as the loss of the least pin in a watch may obstruct its motion.

The President must necessarily have broken his Neck, and have been taken up dead once or twice: For the more Maims this Brotherhood shall have met with, the easier will their Conversation flow and keep up; and when any one of these vigorous Invalids had finished his Narration of the Collar-bone, this naturally would introduce the History of the Ribs.

Nobly said, Charles, and learn from my experience, you may hear reason, and never maim your fighting; for your credit, which you think you have lost, spare Charles, and swinge me, and soundly; three or four walking velvet Cloaks, that wear no swords to guard 'em, yet deserve it, thou art made up again.

There never seems to have been any deviation from the principle that required absolute physical perfection, until, within a few years, the spirit of expediency has induced some Grand Lodges to propose a modified construction of the law, and to admit those whose maims or deformities were not such as to prevent them from complying with the ceremonial of initiation.

"I don't want to wound or maim them," he replied.

The sacred wrestler, till a blessing given, Quits not his hold, but halting conquers Heaven; Nor was the stream of thy devotion stopp'd, When from the body such a limb was lopp'd, As to thy present state was no less maim, Though thy wise choice has since repair'd the same.

But, there they be, these two great nations, Japan and Russia, sendin' out their peaceable and well-behaved sons by the thousands and hundreds of thousands to cut each other to-pieces, shoot, maim and murder each other, for that is what war is, it is on purpose to kill men, the greatest crime in the civil calendar.

We formed the kind of close comradeship which men form who are suffocated but unhurt by a shell which kills and maims others all about them.

Football, too, in America probably kills and maims more in a year than all the German duels.

422 examples of  maims  in sentences