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Example sentences for "impalement"

Lexicographically close words:
impairment; impairs; impala; impale; impaled; impales; impaling; impalpable; impanel; impaneled
  1. More probably, however, its origin was the impalement of two distinct signs.

  2. M276) Impalement on a stake is ordered for a wife procuring her husband’s death.

  3. Follow me close; you might lose yourself in this pleasant labyrinth, and it is death, my friend--by impalement too!

  4. Then the king in a rage, supposing he had concealed his son, had him put to death by impalement as a thief.

  5. And he gave orders that he should be put to death by impalement next morning.

  6. The stake of impalement shall be thy lot, oh Suru.

  7. The pangs due to impalement shall not be thine.

  8. I then adored the illustrious Mahadeva who said unto me,--Thou shalt soon be freed from impalement and live for millions of years.

  9. According to one account of impalement which I have seen, the stake is driven through the flesh of the back beneath the skin.

  10. Great Britain, to symbolise the union of the two realms of England and Scotland, compounded a Badge from the Rose of one realm, and the Thistle of the other, united by impalement under a single crown: No.

  11. Brown records a case of impalement in a boy of fourteen.

  12. Beckett records a case of impalement in a woman of forty-five who, while attempting to obtain water from a hogshead, fell with one limb inside the cistern, striking a projecting stave three inches wide and 1/2 inch thick.

  13. This impalement is given with great force, and a wounded heron has been known to drive its bill right through a stout stick.

  14. This impalement is given with great force, and a wounded heron has been known to drive its strong bill right through a stout stick.

  15. The stake of impalement is a still sharper tooth.

  16. Whether his son ever used the impalement we do not now know, but it does not appear on any of the tombs or seals that have been preserved.

  17. The draft for the impalement is also heavily corrected, probably in comparison and discussion.

  18. The curious fact, however, remains that this rule as to the dimidiation of the bordure in cases of impalement is often found to have been ignored in ancient seals and other examples.

  19. It is not correct to impale the arms of a wife upon the same shield which carries the impalement of an official coat of arms, because the wife does not share the office.

  20. Impalement means marriage, and when the marriage is dissolved the impalement becomes meaningless, and should be discontinued.

  21. But impalement as we now know it was preceded by dimidiation.

  22. Impalement is used occasionally in other circumstances than marriage, i.

  23. The gryphon is supposed to have originated, as is the double-headed eagle, from the dimidiation of two coats of arms resulting from impalement by reason of marriage.

  24. The tressure, like the bordure, in the case of an impalement stops at the line of impalement, as will be seen by a reference to the arms of Queen Anne after the union of the crowns of England and Scotland.


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