Maimed
[meimd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Maim
Typist: Penelope
Examples
- How they showed their scars and sores, and piteously pointed to their maimed and crooked limbs, and begged with their pleading eyes for charity! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I was in my own room as usual--just myself, without obvious change: nothing had smitten me, or scathed me, or maimed me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You wouldn't leave him lying maimed at the bottom of this dreadful place, a moment, if you could bring help to him? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Out of your compassion for me, in this maimed and broken state, you make so much of me--you think so well of me--you love me so dearly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Higg, the son of Snell, at length replied, I am but a maimed man, but that I can at all stir or move was owing to her charitable assistance. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- To how many maimed and mourning millions is the first and sole angel visitant, him easterns call Azrael! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She then bent over the unconscious man, and, for the first time, kissed him on the cheek, and kissed the poor maimed hand that was nearest to her. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Many are deformed, others maimed, while the majority, Thuvia explained, are sightless. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- No--don't say that--your life need not be maimed, said Dorothea, gently. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She needed time to get used to her maimed consciousness, her poor lopped life, before she could walk steadily to the place allotted her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was in his mother's maimed writing, on a slip of paper, and contained only these words: 'I hope it is enough that you have ruined yourself. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- If he maimed or murdered any of them, he was liable to some penalty, though generally but to a small one. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Biting, and striking with his huge hands, he killed and maimed a dozen ere the balance could escape to the upper terraces of the forest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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