That is because they apply only two kinds of punishment in Kazounde--mutilation or death--all at the caprice of the king.
After this mutilation a new reliquary was presented by the Queen of France, Anne of Brittany, as splendid as the old one, and a statuette of herself was added to it in enamelled gold.
The cries of his hapless companion, as the whole scene of vengeance, treachery, and mutilation flashed in one terrible instant before her eyes, seemed not even to reach his ears.
The fact is that life does not consist in nutrition only, it consists in production, and pure egoism involves not an expansion of self but a diminution and mutilation of self.
Both of them would regard a mutilation of their family as a less evil than the mutilation of their domain.
This is the most important question that has been raised in biology since I can remember, and one proof of an inherited mutilation would settle the matter against Weismann's theory.
The functions and structure of parts are more frequently preserved uninjured—mutilation is more rarely required—and operations are dispensed with.
Every endeavour, which skill and experience can suggest, must be made before mutilation of the body, by the removal of even the smallest portion of one of its members, is resorted to.
Finger mutilation was common, especially among women; this consisted in the removal of one or two joints of the little finger, and, sometimes, the first joint of the next.
The effects of badly-executed pruning, or rather hacking, are most noticeable in the case of forest trees, the mutilation of which often results in rotting, canker and other diseases.
Thus naturalism, blind to the mutilation of our nature of which it is guilty, is psychologically unsound.
We may conclude the chapter with a short reference to that most remarkable transaction, the mutilationof the Hermæ, which occurred B.
This amounts to a mutilation of the reality of the spirit.
He exulted inwardly at the thought of the death and mutilation of some one who had never done him the slightest harm, and whose efficiency had probably saved his life.
The Subaltern felt that he ought to have winced with horror at the mutilation of the poor stricken thing, but beyond a slight sinking sensation between the lungs and the stomach, the incident left him with no emotion.
Several of the transport section narrowly escaped death and mutilation at the hands, or rather hoofs, of the Officers' Chargers.
The central incident of the Cinder-Maid formula is clearly the Shoe Marriage Test, up to which everything leads and upon which the mutilation incidents at the end depends.
The mutilation again implies that the shoe in question must have been of a hard or metallic substance which could not be pressed out of shape.
Savagery, undreamt of, succeeded mere shipwreck: murder, assassination, mutilation became commonplace on the sea.
Their contribution to the diminished food-supply of the country is not gained without loss; 'the price o' fish' is too often death or mutilation or suffering under bitter exposure in an open boat.
The horrors which the civilian mind dreads most are mutilation and death.
It is owing to the despotism of the actor on the English stage, and consequently to the star system, that I attribute the mutilation of Shakespeare's plays in their representation.
I see no more probable account of the matter, I say, than this:—That the mutilation of the last chapter of S.
Mark’s Gospel suffered that mutilation in respect of their last Twelve Verses of which we meet with no trace whatever, no record of any sort, until the beginning of the fourth century.
Mutilation was also very common among the English Gipsies, during the French war.
