A fifth had been almost hamstrung by one of the "Bertha's" coolies, and had given himself up.
It was only the thickness of his boots that saved Wilbur from being hamstrung where he stood.
The long series of stalled wagons, with their hamstrung or stalled cattle and empty cages extended to the foot of the crag and beyond it.
No horse or mule was hamstrung or lamed, no man had been knocked senseless.
The four hamstrung horses were struggling pitifully to rise and screaming at intervals.
We passed scores of stalled wagons, every cage empty, two hamstrung oxen or mules or even horses lying in agony before each wagon, the rest of the cattle either loosed and gone or held fast by the stalled wagons behind them.
Then the Baron remembered his oath, and hamstrung the Count as he had hamstrung the horse; but as the Baron rose, Lestocq drove his knife into his back; it passed under the shoulder blade and out through the chest.
Then it became clear to him, that in order to prevent his escape, Monsieur le Comte de Mont-Gobert had hamstrung his horse.
If I am to administer this office, I will not be hamstrung by constant Executive interference.
Jafar rode a magnificent chestnut charger, but seeing the immediate danger, he alighted and hamstrung his steed, so that if the master succumbed, his horse should not be captured by the enemy to be used against Islam.
Amr jumped off his horse and hamstrung it; thereby showing that he did not wish to use it for fight or flight.
The men in rear of the buffaloes rushed forward; two or three held the tail, others clung to the hind legs, and in an instant with their sharp assagies hamstrung the animals, when they were soon despatched with assagies.
Y: But they called to their companion, and he took a sword in hand, and hamstrung (her).
Y: Then they rejected him (as a false prophet), and they hamstrung her.
P: But they call their comrade and he took and hamstrung (her).
P: But they hamstrung her, and then he said: Enjoy life in your dwelling-place three days!
P: So they hamstrung the she-camel, and they flouted the commandment of their Lord, and they said: O Salih!
It's the only thing to do with a hamstrung horse," said Jack bitterly, turning away.
Yet they hamstrung her: then said he, "Yet three days more enjoy yourselves in your dwellings: this menace will not prove untrue.
But they treated him as an impostor and hamstrung her.
Major Slade fell dead, pierced with spear-wounds, and his horse hamstrung to the bone.
So badly were the Lancers used that they had to fall back as stated in the despatch, losing one non-commissioned officer and four men, whose horses had been hamstrung in the encounter.
Whereupon he chose one, and with the assistance of eight other men hamstrung and killed the dam, and pursuing the young one which fled to the mountain, killed that also, and divided his flesh among them.
As they went, Ted was looking for other hamstrung beasts.
It was evident that the cow-puncher and desperado had hamstrung the cattle out of revenge for having been discovered and driven out of the broncho boys' camp.
David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.
David took from him one thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrungall the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.
Joshua did to them as Yahweh bade him: he hamstrung their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
