The circumstances were combined by so subtle a cruelty that every stroke which did not excruciate the sense should wound and lacerate the sentiments and affections of nature.
Among the Kaiganies, guests at the burning of the bodies are wont to lacerate themselves with knives and stones.
As a sign of grief they cut off the manes and tails of their horses, and also crop their own hair and lacerate their bodies in various ways; the women giving vent to their affliction by long continued howlings.
He said, "It is intended for to lacerate and flay The neck of that unmitigated villain PETER GRAY!
The ligule is a short stiff slightlylacerate membrane.
They lacerate one another's cheeks with their nails, rend their hair with their hands, and tear the hole of the flap of the ear, into which the roll of palm-leaves is inserted.
In extracting the diseased tooth, they pierce and lacerate the whole gum near it, which causes extreme pain, together with much effusion of blood.
Seeds many in several rows on the lateral placenta, with a fleshy lacerate aril on one side.
For example, with regard to the tribes in the central part of Victoria we are told that "the parents of the deceased lacerate themselves fearfully, especially if it be an only son whose loss they deplore.
Shakespeare well knew that there is no true pathetic, nothing that can permanently lacerate the heart, and embitter the speech, unless a woman be concerned.
Horses frequently fall and bruise orlacerate the knee when moving at trot or canter.
This is objectionable because the sharp points lacerate the mucous membrane of the cheek and tongue, and the mastication of the feed is seriously interfered with.
God may not be dependent upon the worthiness of His interpreters; none the less their unworthiness may jar upon and lacerate the feelings of worshippers, conscious of the scandal of such unworthiness.
Skill in his art is what we expect from the musician; without it he cannot mediate between the composer and his audience, he cannot interpret the music, he can only jar and lacerate the feelings of his hearers.
But every thought of the one woman whose image was forever before him could sear and lacerate his heart almost beyond endurance.
Oh, where she was delivered over to him, in her very soft femaleness, he seemed to lacerate her and desecrate her.
Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to laceratethe heart.
The parents of the deceasedlacerate themselves fearfully, especially if it be an only son whose loss they deplore.
In central Victoria, "when death visits a tribe there is great weeping and lamentation amongst the women, the elder portion of whom lacerate their temples with their nails.
The rite does not merely demand that one think of the deceased in a melancholy way, but also that he beat himself, bruise himself, lacerate himself and burn himself.
Meanwhile, the women commence to lacerate their heads again, and, in order to intensify the wounds they make, they even go so far as to burn them with the points of fiery sticks.
In the fifty-fifth hymn of the seventh book of the Rigvedas, the hog and the dog lacerate and tear each other to pieces in turns;[18] the dog and the pig are found in strife again in the AEsopian fable.
In teaching the young dog to grasp a turkey, it should be trained to seize the bird by the neck every time, and not touch the body, as his teeth will lacerate the tender skin and tear the flesh--a thing no true sportsman would tolerate.
Those rifles were reliable and did not lacerate the flesh unless too much powder was used.
This had been done with such inhuman severity, as to lacerate her back in a most shocking manner; a finger could not be laid between the cuts.
It is white, covered with loose floccose scales, or more or less lacerate or torn, and the lower part of the stem and upper part of the bulb are marked usually by prominent concentric scales forming interrupted rings.
The surest way of opening a clam without injuring the animal is to break one of the shells by sharp taps of a hammer, using great care not to lacerate the body within by a too vigorous assault.
The tiger does not usually strike (like the lion), but it merely seizes with its claws, and uses them to clutch firm hold, and to lacerate its victim.
When, at night, the exhausted sufferers tried to rest, the young warriors came to lacerate their wounds and pull out their hair and beards.
When a cataract is fluid, it is sufficient to puncture, or lacerate slightly, the anterior part of the capsule; as then the opaque contents will be diffused through the aqueous humour, and soon removed by the absorbents.
Besides endangering the pudic, it is apt to lacerate the neck of the bladder, pushing the prostate before it, and so tearing its cellular connexions.
