It is not so even in a wrestling county, or in some few parts of our own land where men fight like brute beasts, and use their best endeavours to maim or blind their adversaries for life.
Thus the injured person or his next of kin may maim or break limb for limb.
The penalty points to an incurable maim or break, because the next statute seems to provide for injuries which can be mended.
They maim our hearts, they stupefy Their strongest springs, if not their best; They make us cease to live before we die.
What have I done, I'd like to know, To make my master maimme so?
It would only be helping Bennington to riot and burn the shops, so now to maim and kill the men who, at hire, were tearing down these walls.
They could beat the new men and maim them, but so long as they did not touch property there would be no call for the militia.
For blindness did not maim Bards, who neither wrote nor read their compositions.
Your lordships will observe that shooting at with intent to maim or disable, and stabbing with the same intent, are in the same category of subjects, and must be attended with all the same rules and incidents.
The second count charged him with firing at the said Harvey Garnet Phipps Tuckett with intent to maim and disable him; and the third count varied the charge--with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm.
He had a footman in the hall during all his talk, who was to have opened the door for one or more fellows, as he has since reported; and likewise that he had a sharp knife in his pocket, ready to stab or maim me.
He must have no maim or defect that may render him incapable; that is, because, by having such maim or defect, he would be rendered incapable of acquiring our art.
The sentence is not that the candidate must have no such maim or defect as might, by possibility, prevent him from learning the art; though this is the interpretation given by those who are in favor of admitting slightly maimed candidates.
I believe that boy strews the ground differently every day, on purpose to bruise and maim one; unless his master does it with his own hands, which is more than likely.
I knew that a man who could maim his own body in that way was capable of any crime in the calendar!
There can scarcely be more than one reason why a man should torture himself and starve himself and maim and desecrate and horribly defile himself.
Because the electric fluid (called lightning) always rushes down the outside of the tree or spire; and if any one were standing near, might pass through him, and kill or maim him.
Because lightning strikes with amazing force, whatever opposes it: and if a man stand in the way, it strikes him such a blow, as to maim him.
The cobra being thus an object of worship, it is a deadly sin to kill or maim it.
He then thinks that he can assume the figure of any animal he likes, and successfully achieves the object in view, which is generally to murder or maim a person.
Yea some of the churls did cruelly maltreat and maim these proud knights from beyond sea, thereby taking vengeance for the great wrongs and cruelties which by them had been committed.
Gall-traps were set along the road, multitudes of sharp sticks were inserted on the surface of the road, keen as dagger points, to obstruct the advance of an enemy, and to maim his soldiers and compel them to fall out by the way.
And so it was an imperative necessity that the Roman soldier be well shod, his feet made easy for the most exacting march, and defended against the hidden perils which would maim him in service and spoil him for the fray.
They will do well to do it over their signatures, and thus permit the public to get a strangle hold on the few who would maim budding character for a packed purse.
Some hold that a judge or the civil authority in general may kill or maim a criminal by gubernatorial power alone, prescinding from dominative power, and this not to the utility of the criminal but for the utility of society.
If the abortion does not kill or maim the child, the culprit is fined by the Sanhedrim; if the child is killed or maimed, then the penalty is according to the Lex Talionis.
If a man stumble over it while it lies there to be built upon, he will lame and maim himself.
Impunity is not mercy, and punishment is never the negation of perfect love, but rather, if you destroy the one you hopelessly maim the other.
Possessing Him, we know no satiety; possessing Him, we do not need to maim any part of our nature; possessing Him, we shall not covet divers multifarious objects.
Is it thou that hath sunk him in slothfulness, so that the wolfish lords and tyrant barons upon his marchlands begin to creep out of their castleholds, and tear and maim his people and wrest from them and him broad lands and fertile fields?
Thou wilt do more than any other knight, and in thy strength ye may well maim yourself.
Prate a lie into shape Lest truth should cumber the road; Play at the fast and loose Till the world is strangled with tape; Maim the soul's complete To fit the hole of a toad; And filch the dogman's meat To feed the offspring of God?
The surgeon has amputated the hand to save the man's life; the executioner has cut it off to maim the man.
Medical men assume that self-preservation is a primal instinct, and that the person who deliberately sets out to maim himself or to destroy his life is insane, even although intellectually he may appear to be quite sound.
To divide the body is to kill it or to maim it; dividing the essential, necessary parts, is killing it; cutting off any integral part, is maiming it.
For no man I think is drunk so often as the sluggard is dead in sleep: sluggards quite kill their reason, when most drunkards do but maim it, or make it sick.
Whatever little right they have to maim these poor people, we have none whatever to interfere, and we should have the regular forces of the State down on us for treason or rebellion or what not.
Is it legal to shoot and maim the natives as you have been doing for a hundred miles and more along the river?
Its professors have not only power to maim and to kill, and to do other active mischief, but to ensnare the affections and endanger the souls of their victims, by enticing them to unhallowed love.
Therefore neither is it lawful to maim anyone, except perhaps by public authority.
Now it is not lawful for a man to maimhimself for the sake of the soul's welfare: since the council of Nicea [*P.
Therefore it is not lawful for any other reason tomaim a person.
Therefore it seems that it is always a sin to maim a person.
Objection 1: It would seem that in no case can it be lawful to maim anyone.
The same applies if it be done with the consent of the person whose business it is to care for the welfare of the person who has a decayed member: otherwise it is altogether unlawful to maim anyone.
Now it is always possible to further one's spiritual welfare otherwise than by cutting off a member, because sin is always subject to the will: and consequently in no case is it allowable to maim oneself, even to avoid any sin whatever.
Whether in Some Cases It May Be Lawful to Maim Anyone?
In like manner to maim anyone, though contrary to the particular nature of the body of the person maimed, is nevertheless in keeping with natural reason in relation to the common good.
