The barbarities in question consisted in the frequent scalping and mutilating of sentinels and men on outpost duty, perpetrated no less by Canadians than by Indians.
The reasons for thus mutilating the animal were explained by a native to two French missionaries.
M201 Bechuana custom of mutilating a sacrificial ox in order to inflict corresponding mutilations on the enemy.
By mutilating it past recognition, you may add a few nuts to your this year's store.
The boy who raises wild fowl and liberates them or refrains from mutilating for purely selfish ends a fine tree is doing his share in the great work of conservation.
Nor has it prevented that flashing devil from mutilating her sister whom the young man really loves.
That is the outrage, provisionally so-called, of mutilating everything German; not only sequestering what may be dangerous or unfriendly and vindictive, but depriving of toleration everything that has German origin or bears a German name.
In the police court this morning, James Jenkins, for cruelly torturing and mutilating a dog, fined ten dollars and costs.
I suppose in sending cattle to sea, it's necessary to take their horns off, but when they're going to be turned out to grass, it seems like mutilating them.
The emperor returned, however, in 1858, and after several repulses succeeded in entering Ankober, where he behaved with great cruelty, murdering or mutilating all the inhabitants.
It would be like mutilating his own being; the brotherly affection that had bourgeoned and grown between him and that rustic had struck its roots down into his life, too deep to be slain like that.
There is, absolutely, no excuse for managers mutilating Don Giovanni; not even the excuse that in its original form this inexhaustible opera does not "draw.
In England, no one objected to the theatrical assassination of Gustavus; but unfortunately, also, no scruple was made aboutmutilating and murdering Auber's music.
Sometimes, without mutilating the corporate body it had upset and deformed it, or dislocated and disjointed it.
Enormous oak branches, previously prepared, detach themselves from the tops of their trunks, and come down crashing upon the heads of the soldiers, killing or mutilating them.
Besides mutilating themselves, these people drink no strong drink, and eat very little of anything beyond bread and oil.
After nearly ten minutes spent in mutilating our knuckles and damaging the door, a fellow in shirt and slippers turned up, looking as astonished as his besotted face would allow him to.
Ivan, my man, told me that in another fortnight they would begin still wilder rites, hacking and mutilating themselves with knives, after the manner of the priests of Baal.
And much more readily should we follow this opinion since we can see that he confessed only that he gave commands for mutilating his said wife (ad sfrisiandum), if I may use the word of the authorities.
But much more are they to be admitted, since he confesses only that he gave order for striking his wife's face, or for mutilating it; and if those he commanded exceeded his order, he should not be held responsible for their excess.
The king then went to the north part of Viken and invited every man to accept Christianity; and those who opposed him he punished severely, killing some, mutilating others, and driving some into banishment.
The kings had first a private conference together, in which he who came from Raumarike first took up the word, and told of King Olaf's proceedings, and of the disturbance he was causing both by killing and mutilating people.
Not content with mutilating the bodies of Allied officers, of Belgian boys, they lifted the knife upon the loveliness of woman.
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Digressive, and may be skipped without mutilatingthe History.
On this account the Jews, rejecting the mission of our Saviour, refused to pronounce his name without mutilating it.
The Valentinians were not accused of mutilating the Scriptures, but of evaporating their significance.
Sometimes, maddened and infuriated by drink, they commit the most horrid atrocities on each other, murdering and mutilating in a barbarous manner, and often attempting the lives of the traders themselves.
The military then moved on to quell other riots, when the mob returned and again suspended the now probably lifeless body of Franklin, cutting out pieces of flesh, and otherwise shockingly mutilating it.
The infuriated men then jumped upon him, knocking out his teeth, breaking his jaw-bone and right hand, and terribly mutilating his whole body.
If such a man persists in marrying, his marriage might be prevented, but that is different frommutilating him.
All mutilating operations, like craniotomy and the others enumerated above, first kill the fetus, then extract its body from the womb; abortion first extracts the fetus and then lets its die.
The mutilating injuries, if not of a fatal character, necessitated treatment of a corresponding nature to the damage.
The larger fragments of such shells were responsible for the most serious mutilating injuries, while small fragments sometimes caused comparatively simple perforating wounds.
Two simultaneous psychologic facts are so closely bound together that analysis can not separate without mutilating them.
When we say that two conscious facts are simultaneous, we mean that they profoundly interpenetrate, so that analysis can not separate them without mutilating them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mutilating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
