Any ignorant man can dig around and mutilate a shrub and chop up a white lily if he meets it!
The labour that is now given to dig and mutilate once a year and keep clean at other times of the year would easily, on the plan proposed, suffice for a much larger area.
The generally–accepted practice is to trim, and often to mutilate the shrubs, and to dig all over the surface that must be full of feeding roots.
But such artificial conceptionsmutilate the activity of man.
To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.
To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero.
When very young, I had seen a dog run over, and I had seen a boy playmate mutilate a turtle.
For example, those who mutilate themselves to escape military service, fail first in their duty to their country, and next in their duty to themselves.
The things of nature are to us but means to satisfy our wants; we may therefore mutilate and destroy them, not as our whims may dictate, but as our wants require.
We can neither mutilate nor destroy him for our use.
To embody or enact an idea is the only way of making it actual; but its embodiment may mutilate it, if the material or the situation is not propitious.
Morality becomes rational precisely by refusing either to accept human nature, as it sprouts, altogether without harmony, or to mutilate it in the haste to make it harmonious.
He never returned volumes he borrowed, and he never hesitated to mutilate a rare book in order to save himself the labor and trouble of writing out a quotation.
There was a hoarse laugh as it fell, to break other bones, no doubt, in the depths of the hold, or to mutilate some former comrade below.
They'd give me tips; they'd mutilate you as they'd mutilate their own domestic animals, for fun!
Finally, you must mutilate a page of the manuscript that you may select, and preserve the fragment intact and in secret.
It will be seen, by referring to the epilogue, that Mr. Drury agreed to mutilate part of the book.
To seek to explain these, or to reduce them to legends, is not to mutilate facts in the name of theory; it is to make the observation of facts our groundwork.
At one time the master seems to approve of those who should mutilate themselves in prospect of the kingdom of God.
The rule is that the mistake in spelling must not mutilate the word beyond easy recognition.
Ignore indistinctness of articulation and defects of pronunciation as long as they do not mutilate the sentence beyond easy recognition.
No Barricini would have dared to mutilate any beast of ours in my father's time.
My readers must know that among the Corsicans to mutilate an enemy's horse is at once a vengeance, a challenge, and a mortal threat.
But that herd belongs to the lawyer, and I've taught him, now, to mutilate our horses.
He must have been discovered by the pursuing Hau Haus, who had evidently thought him dead, but who, although they stripped him, forbore to tomahawk him or mutilate his body.
Badly wounded and found by the most savage fanatics on the earth, yet, against their custom, they neither tomahawk nor mutilate him.
One cannotmutilate the etheric body, and it remains always intact.
We do not consider ourselves accursed if we fail to mutilate our bodies, if we eat forbidden dishes, fail to trim our beards, or wear clothes of two materials.
I would that they which unsettle you would even mutilate themselves.
If you do not wish to mutilate your book, take it with you--most of the epoch-making books are now printed in small volumes.
It is painfully common to hear public speakers mutilate the king's English.
We may not go over to those who would mutilate the Book of Life, or evacuate any part of its message.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mutilate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
