Sentence example with the word 'maiming'

maiming

bankruptcy, castration, crippling, destruction, disablement, emasculation, hobbling, impairment, injury, mayhem, ruination, scathe, weakening

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Capture begins among the lower tribes with the hand, without devices, developing knack and skill in seizing, pursuing, climbing, swimming, and maiming without weapons; and proceeds to gathering with devices that take the place of the hand in dipping, digging, hooking and grasping; weapons for striking, whether clubs, missiles or projectiles; edged weapons of capture, which were rare in America; piercing devices for capture, in lances, barbed spears, harpoons and arrows; traps for enclosing, arresting and killing, such as pens, cages, pits, pen-falls, nets, hooks, nooses, clutches, adhesives, deadfalls, impalers, knife traps and poisons; animals consciously and unconsciously aiding in capture; fire in the form of torches, beacons, burning out and smoking out; poisons and asphyxiators; the accessories to hunting, including such changes in food, dress, shelter, travelling, packing, mechanical tools and intellectual apparatus as demanded by these arts.   [Please select]

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To resist such evil, and to prevent it, the evil doer must be punished with death, or maiming, or some physical injury.   [Please select]

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He would have to be so, stopping just short of maiming or killing the horse, else he would never break him.   [Please select]

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The maiming of Lola's beauty has been the last jest which the Arch-Jester has practised on me.   [Please select]

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It suddenly struck her that perhaps she was responsible for the maiming of this man's life--for clearly it was maimed.   [Please select]

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Their punishments were barbarous, and comprised maiming and death, and the killing of a deer or a wild boar was punished with putting out the eyes or death.   [Please select]

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The hunter, who had already abandoned his intention of maiming the runner, mused a moment, and then made a gesture, which instantly brought his two red companions to his side.   [Please select]

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