But to the horror of her people, she developed a terrible craving for cruelty, maiming and injuring birds and small animals--even killing them.
It appears certain, therefore, that in years of high infantile mortality the conditions, to which one in five or six of the children born are sacrificed, have a maiming effect upon the other four or five.
The last of the motor-buses that went about killing and maiming people in the new protective darkness had long since reached its yard.
Another seaman, getting most drunk upon eau de vie ran amuck with a pike, maiming and hurting several.
For discharged at such close range the shots tore through the bulwarks and planking with a horrid sound, the splinters, as we found, killing and maiming many who had gone below for protection.
In 1538, he proclaimed that anyone hurting or maiming an officer while trying to make an arrest "shall lose and forfeit all their lands, goods, and chattel" and shall suffer perpetual imprisonment.
It also heard issues concerning services arising out of land, detention of chattels, small debts, wounding or maiming of animals, and personal assaults and brawls not amounting to felony.
Treason to the king is to compass, imagine, or intend death or any bodily harm tending to death, or maiming or wounding, or imprisonment, or restraint as well as trying to depose him or levy war against him.
Still it seemed impossible to assign any motive for the self-robbery and the self-maiming of Goodridge, which any judge or jury would accept as reasonable.
A sword-cut or pistol-bullet, maiming the body, was as nothing in comparison with the wounds they mutually inflicted on that substance which was immortal in both.
Thereafter did the King talk to them after diverse fashions, but it availed nothing; then he vowed that death or maiming should be their lot, but they obeyed him none the more for that.
Killing and maiming without sufficient extenuation did not become unlawful solely by the establishment of Christianity.
As yet we have presented our readers with no instance of the conviction of a prisoner for the offence of maiming cattle.
But in the end I went back to my boat and laboured amain, for it seemed to me the sooner I was quit of her fellowship the better, lest she goad me into maiming or slaying her outright.
All his inherited tendencies drew him back from a violation of the law, particularly a violation which included the maiming of a fellow-being; and so, for that matter, did all his acquired tastes and characteristics.
I have examined the statutes and find that the maiming of another (save where such maiming is necessary to preserve his life or health), even with his consent, is a felony.
It killed three men besides wounding and maiming eight others; it had entered the hatches, and torn open the mainhatch, with a blaze of light, so that the interior of the ship could be seen.
We would be apt to wonder where were the industrial and manufacturing plants responsible for all thismaiming of the people, and look in vain for the belching chimneys of factories or trains.
For failures to pay various taxes, if the offence were repeated, maiming was likely to be the consequence.
Into the Northern Hospital, in the Holloway Road, a shell fell, shattering one of the wards, and killing or maiming every one of the patients in the ward in question, while the church in Tufnell Park Road was burning fiercely.
Cheers arose all along our lines, as shell after shell, fired by gunners who knew to an inch the distances to every house and conspicuous tree, burst among the German ranks, killing and maiming the invaders by hundreds.
To resist such evil and destroy it, the doer of evil is to be punished by death or maiming or some personal injury.
And so they travelled, drinking, cursing, singing, fighting, andmaiming themselves.
There are now in our whole land two millions of human beings, exposed, defenceless, to every insult, and every injury short of maiming or death, which their fellow men may choose to inflict.
They dragged this respectable planter from the bosom of his family, and mutilated him in the most brutal manner--maiming him most inhumanly, besides cutting off his nose and ears and scarifying his body to the very ribs!
It is almost like a cataclysm when one begins to consider the maiming of the human spirit which follows in the wake of such a commercial determination.
One must know the maiming of the cities to bring to the land a surface that nature floods with ecstasies.
Again and again it has come to me from the wonderful unfoldings under my eyes, that for centuries the world has been maiming its children--that only those who were wonderfully strong could escape, and become articulate as men.
When you were a lad I could scarcely keep my hands from tearing and maiming you, and I should have laughed had your accursed kobold father rent me limb from limb for doing it; but I waited for a better vengeance!
When these ruffians seized and drugged my client and gave play to their barbarous instincts by maiming him for life, one is tempted to ask why they did not further indulge their brutal propensities by roasting the flesh they cut away.
In spite of his conviction that he had done his duty, still his conscience pricked him for wilfully maiming a fellow-creature.
