206 examples of mutilations in sentences

He has robbed us of all we hold valuable, and to his act of treachery we owe the mutilations we have suffered.

So neatly too, the mutilations stand Like native errors of the artist's hand; Nay, what is more, the very tool betray'd To seem the product of the work it made. 'Oh, monstrous slander on the human race!' Then read conviction in Ortuno's case.

of the "Paradiso," which exhibits a multitude of mutilations and alterations.

We shall adopt, under this head, the same course as that pursued under previous ones,first give the testimony of the slaveholders themselves, to the mutilations, &c. by copying their own graphic descriptions of them, in advertisements published under their own names, and in newspapers published in the slave states, and, generally, in their own immediate vicinity.

As an illustration of the horrible mutilations sometimes suffered by them in the breaking and tearing out of their teeth, we insert the following, from the New Orleans Bee of May 31, 1837.

He gives some of the numerous instances showing how savages "ornament" or mutilate their bodies; adding: "The motives are various; the men paint their bodies to make themselves appear terrible in battle; certain mutilations are connected with religious rites, or they mark the age of puberty, or the rank of the man, or they serve to distinguish the tribes.

Among savages the same fashions prevail for long periods, and thus mutilations, from whatever cause first made, soon come to be valued as distinctive marks.

Thus we see that an immense number of mutilations of the body and alleged "decorations" of it are not intended by these races as things of beauty, but have special meanings or uses in connection with protection, war, superstition, mourning, or the desire to mark distinctions between the tribes, or degrees of rank within one tribe or horde.

Then we may grant that the facial daubs or skin mutilations may seem terrible or hideous to an enemy and yet please the women, because the women do not regard them as things of beauty, but as distinguishing marks of valiant warriors.

The tyranny of fashion in prescribing disfigurements and mutilations is not confined to savages.

In reality there is no reason for supposing that the Chinese consider crippled feetlooking like "the hoof of an animal"beautiful any more than mutilations of other parts of the body.

This accounts for the extremes to which mutilations and fashions often go among both, civilized and uncivilized races, and of which a startling instance will be described in detail in the next paragraph.

One of the most disgusting mutilations on record is that practised by the Indians of British Columbia, who insert a piece of bone in the lower lip, which, gradually enlarged, makes it at last project three inches.

"Abominably revolting," "hideous," "filthy," "disgusting," "atrocious"such are usually the words of observers in describing these shocking mutilations.

As a matter of fact, these penances are not voluntary but prescribed, each widow in a tribe being expected to indulge in the same howlings and mutilations, so that this circumstance alone would make it impossible to say whether her lamentations over her late spouse came under the head of affection, fondness, liking, or attachment, or whether they are associated with indifference or hatred.

Thus it was long believed that what was known as the "terrible rite" (finditur usque ad urethram membrum virile)see Curr I., 52, 72was practised as a check to population; but surgeon-general Roth (179) has exploded this idea, and made it seem probable that this rite is merely a senseless counterpart of certain useless mutilations inflicted on females.

Eskimos: No morality or chastity; Not modest or coy; Ungallant; Risking life for a woman; Assaults; Mutilations; Tattooing; Tattoo marks and husbands; Filthy; "Love-unions;" Capacity for love.

Makololo: Mutilations.

Mutilations. Nagas: Ungallant.

Peruvians: Mutilations; Sun virgins; Cruel to women; Marriage; Love-charms; Words to express love.

How Hale would have borne the mutilations which his Pleas of the Crown have suffered from the editor, they who know his character will easily conceive.

Marks and mutilations.

Marks and mutilations.

It seemed to me that under the mutilations which the scalpel had inflicted on the body, I should find the answer to more than one enigmamight solve some of the secrets of life.

The facts upon which Mrs. Macdonald lays so much stressthe mutilations, the additions, the instructing notes, the proved inaccuracy of the story the manuscripts tellthese facts, no doubt, may be explained by Mrs. Macdonald's theories; but there are other factsno less important, and no less certainwhich are in direct contradiction to Mrs. Macdonald's view, and over which she passes as lightly as she can.

206 examples of  mutilations  in sentences