Mutilated
[m'ju:tɪleɪtɪd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Mutilate
Typed by Benjamin
Examples
- Since you have preserved my narration, said he, I would not that a mutilated one should go down to posterity. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- His head had been horribly mutilated by an expanding revolver bullet, but no weapon of any sort was to be found in the room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Will He accept a mutilated sacrifice? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was insensible, if not virtually dead; it was mutilated, and streaked the water all about it with dark red streaks. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- On this arm, I have neither hand nor nails, he said, drawing the mutilated limb from his breast, and showing it to me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The glow that shone upon him as he spoke the words, so irradiated his features that he looked, for the time, as though he had never been mutilated. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It is a world of precious relics, a wilderness of marred and mutilated gems. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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