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  • And somewhere, my brother's decapitated body lies as proof of that.†   (source)
  • He left off decapitating fish to glare at me, dripping cleaver in hand, and I vowed never again to discriminate against the intoxicated.†   (source)
  • — to the sweet melody of Decapitation: automatic gunfire blasted out above the menacing, bass-heavy background music of the video game.†   (source)
  • Since she wasn't a girl to be frightened by stories of La Llorona, the witch who sucks little children's blood, or the boogeyman, or other scary stories, Chencha was trying to frighten her with stories of hangings, shootings, dismemberments, decapitations, and even sacrifices in which the victim's heart was cut out—in the heat of battle!†   (source)
  • It seems to take only seconds before the Peacekeepers are decapitated.†   (source)
  • The trolley shot forward, almost decapitating Chix Verbil.†   (source)
  • They lose limbs and are sometimes decapitated.†   (source)
  • They were somehow balanced on necks ragged from the broadsword's decapitating swing, and there was blood running down the pedestals.†   (source)
  • Torkenbrand's decapitated trunk crumpled to the ground in a puff of dirt.†   (source)
  • The sniper, alone in the building, had been decapitated by the bomb as it flew through the window.†   (source)
  • The spider rotated and Kassad realized that it was the head of the medic; she had been decapitated in the initial explosion.†   (source)
  • The enemy is prepared to go to any lengths to achieve victory, terrorizing its own people, if necessary, and resorting to barbaric practices against its enemy, including decapitating people or butchering them.†   (source)
  • After slaughter, the hogs were decapitated, split down the length of the belly, pried open, eviscerated, and strung up by the hind hocks on a high conveyer belt.†   (source)
  • The New South African has no idea what's coming, but he starts to react as Hiro is swinging the katana at his neck, so he is flying backward when the decapitation occurs.†   (source)
  • I see: a man reach inside cattle and pull out their kidneys with his bare hands, then drop the kidneys down a metal chute, over and over again, as each animal passes by him; a stainless steel rack of tongues; Whizzards peeling meat off decapitated heads, picking them almost as clean as the white skulls painted by Georgia O'Keeffe.†   (source)
  • It nearly decapitated him.†   (source)
  • It sliced through with enough force to decapitate the creature, which sagged forward, black blood gushing from its neck stump.†   (source)
  • She had decapitated a guard and seriously wounded two others with a machete that she had snatched away from the gardener because she wanted to go dancing at Carnival.†   (source)
  • I looked more closely and found the decapitated stems that minutes earlier had held blossoms.†   (source)
  • The soldiers thought that Voodoo beliefs conferred a special, weird terror on decapitation.†   (source)
  • The story was not half bad: Once upon a time a sultan was killing all the girls in his kingdom, decapitating them, running swords through them, hanging them.†   (source)
  • I know how this works—everyone starts dancing around the fire and painting their faces and worshipping a decapitated pig head and then someone gets hit by a boulder and plummets to their death—and, surprise, it's the fat kid in glasses."†   (source)
  • Unsuspecting diners in a restaurant decapitated by a falling ceiling fan.†   (source)
  • The Jesuits, according to Paulus, had been treated so brusquely in so many places for their attempts to convert and transform, decapitated in Japan, disemboweled in the Horn of Africa, eaten alive in North America, crucified in Siam, drawn and quartered in England, thrown into the ocean off Madagascar, that the founders of our little experimental college thought they'd spare the landscape some of the bloodier emblems of the order's history.†   (source)
  • Each time my racquet touches the ball, I fear I'm in danger of decapitating someone.†   (source)
  • During a time of intense conflict between India and Pakistan, Greg was disturbed by the graphic way Indian and Pakistani students played war at recess, pretending to machine gun and decapitate each other.†   (source)
  • One of the plates came through the windshield and decapitated Nivea.†   (source)
  • An incautious word from her could result in decapitation or being thrown into one of the palace wells to silence her forever.†   (source)
  • There ain't no such thing as virgin birth," Florence said looking down at the decapitated doll.†   (source)
  • Which meant that, although he gave no signal that he was capable of shooting her toes off, he might very well be the kind who suddenly snapped and decapitated his victim or some other such terrible thing.†   (source)
  • In 1885, a British murderer named Robert Goodale was hanged, but the force of the drop decapitated him.†   (source)
  • Its commander had been beaten to death and decapitated, his dripping head then carried through the streets on a pike.†   (source)
  • Whipping back around, Max merely glimpsed Scathach's smiling imposter as the mounted assassin swung the blade meant to decapitate him.†   (source)
  • His neck was scraped raw by the seat belt, which had almost decapitated him.†   (source)
  • I would like to be killed within earshot of the soundless sweep of the blessed one's hot golden robe as it decapitates the breathless atmospheres of the lighter planets and takes the air of day from the unchangeable path of the holy blessed sap.†   (source)
  • Saw much of the work I had done in the way of severed limbs, decapitated bodies, and mutilated remains of all kinds.†   (source)
  • My panicked, sweeping blow nearly decapitated April, but she was just short enough.†   (source)
  • The blade came slashing through the air decapitating the woman.†   (source)
  • Natalie had successfully penetrated that network as part of an operation to identify and decapitate its command structure.†   (source)
  • The others, he decapitated with the machete.†   (source)
  • Sylvia herself was decapitated, which in itself was ghastly enough; it was intolerable that to Blackstock's nearly insane grief was added the knowledge that the head itself vanished, catapulted by the immense impact into the East River.†   (source)
  • Spurred by the success of her story about kitty's decapitation, Ethel continued in the same vein.†   (source)
  • At this, Yama sprang forward, beating down the other's guard, and delivered a blow to the side of his neck that might have decapitated him.†   (source)
  • Decapitated—that means 'head cut off.'   (source)
    decapitated = with the head cut the head off
  • I know what 'decapitated' means—and you can stop talking that way; all double negatives and stuff.   (source)
  • In Denver he was carefully decapitated and, after the fifty-six-hour surgery to attach his body to my neck was completed, Jeremy Pratt's cremated remains were shipped home to his family and buried in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery on Locust Street.   (source)
    decapitated = to cut the head off; or with the head cut off
  • You will get yourself decapitated, my beautiful queen, and that would be a pity.   (source)
  • The jihadists developed a reputation for decapitating prisoners.
  • The statue's decapitated body tilted and swayed.†   (source)
  • They paddle in the direction of the decapitated yacht.†   (source)
  • Six, seven, eight--Castor, Homes, and Finnick being decapitated by the rose-scented lizard mutts.†   (source)
  • It was the same with Hitler's Mein Kampfor Stukatsky's Visions in the Eye of a Decapitated Child.†   (source)
  • It does not count those who die instantly when they are cut in half or decapitated.†   (source)
  • Charlotte's eyes widen as the decapitated blooms fly free of their broken stems.†   (source)
  • The soldier stumbled, and Carn decapitated him.†   (source)
  • Percy turned a sickly shade of green as he stared at the decapitated statue of his dad.†   (source)
  • He spun, his sword instantly in his hand, and almost decapitated Will Solace.†   (source)
  • That old dwarf needs to be decapitated in the worst way.†   (source)
  • A man who could be disgraced and decapitated tomorrow morning certainly would know.†   (source)
  • I need to confer with my teammate before we are brutally decapitated.†   (source)
  • A bronze dragonhead, neatly decapitated, wobbled across the floor.†   (source)
  • Never Take a Bubble Bath with a Decapitated God†   (source)
  • "You must not have a lot of competitions," I said, "if the loser always gets decapitated."†   (source)
  • "It's a little hard to cut and sew fabric when you're decapitated."†   (source)
  • Photos with Alderman sounded almost as painful as getting decapitated by a wire.†   (source)
  • Piper nudged the nearest decapitated dragonhead with her foot.†   (source)
  • Chances were high that I was going to get decapitated again.†   (source)
  • Considering the fact that he was due to be decapitated the next day, he was a good host.†   (source)
  • And tomorrow, in your first combat, you shall prove your valor and be decapitated!†   (source)
  • Although they also wore the blue and gold uniform, each wielded the traditional "Vatican long sword"-an eight-foot spear with a razor-sharp scythe-rumored to have decapitated countless Muslims while defending the Christian crusaders in the fifteenth century.†   (source)
  • Every nerve in his body seemed to tauten: He pulled out his wand, moved into the shadows beside the decapitated elf heads, and waited.†   (source)
  • The next day, after a night of bad dreams, she suffered her first sense of displeasure at being home when she opened the balcony window and saw again the sad drizzle in the little park, the statue of the decapitated hero, the marble bench where Florentino Ariza used to sit with his book of verses.†   (source)
  • Tendrils of magic snapped through his mind like decapitated snakes, then reluctantly retreated from his consciousness, clutching at the dregs of his strength.†   (source)
  • And that February morning, when the Rev. Lewis Merrill entered The Great Hall and stared with such horror at the decapitated and amputated Mary Magdalene, Dan Needham and I weren't thinking very far into the future; we were worried only that the Rev. Mr. Merrill might be too terrified to deliver his prayer—that the condition of Mary Magdalene might seize hold of his normally slight stutter and render him incomprehensible.†   (source)
  • The chain had decapitated him.†   (source)
  • One had been taken in Santa Fe, when he was very young, the same age as Florentino Ariza when he saw the photograph for the first time, and in it he was wearing an overcoat that made him look as if he were stuffed inside a bear, and he was leaning against a pedestal that supported the decapitated gaiters of a statue.†   (source)
  • They had changed everything, they had removed the trees with their carpet of yellow leaves and replaced the statue of the decapitated hero with that of another, who wore his dress uniform but had no name or dates or reasons to justify him, and who stood on an ostentatious pedestal in which they had installed the electrical controls for the district.†   (source)
  • The whole town saw the decapitated man pass by as a group of men carried him to his house, with a woman dragging the head along by its hair, and the bloody sack with the pieces of the child.†   (source)
  • His last images of cows were of murdered and suffering animals -- decapitated cows and cows with their front legs chopped off, still alive and bellowing by the sides of the road to Bujumbura and even in Bujumbura.†   (source)
  • He was just explaining to Frank how to avoid getting decapitated by his own Archimedes sphere when the sound of trumpets echoed through the stadium.†   (source)
  • "First time I've been decapitated."†   (source)
  • A gas main would explode and he would be decapitated by a manhole cover flying through the air like a deadly ninetypound Frisbee.†   (source)
  • Without warning, the officer drew his saber and decapitated the man, then hopped backward to avoid the resulting spray of blood.†   (source)
  • Then the skeleton decapitated the other two monster carcasses and kicked all the ashes to disperse them.†   (source)
  • The gardens soon filled with birds whose legs had been laced together, waiting their turn to be decapitated by the two butchers specially hired for that purpose.†   (source)
  • An instant later the policewoman was decapitated by the circular saw of ball bearings that flew from the bag at detonation, as were the man and woman who had asked to have their photo taken.†   (source)
  • Only a few made it back, and they told of seeing their friends decapitated and the heads mounted on stakes.†   (source)
  • This was a legal conundrum: if the sentence of death was to be carried out by hanging, then the prisoner could not be decapitated, or the sentence wasn't fulfilled.†   (source)
  • No doubt he was imagining the same thing as Deo at that moment -- a decapitated snake with the tail still wriggling around, as if the tail didn't know it was part of an animal already dead, as if it didn't know there was no hope for it.†   (source)
  • The decapitated bronze head from the statue shot out of nowhere and slammed into Babi's chest, knocking him backward through the roof of the Body Shop.†   (source)
  • The old Street of the Turks was at that time an abandoned corner where the last Arabs were letting themselves be dragged off to death with the age-old custom of sitting in their doorways, although it had been many years since they had sold the last yard of diagonal cloth, and in the shadowy showcases only the decapitated manikins remained.†   (source)
  • In a single, smooth motion, he drew Brisingr from its sheath and slashed through the haft of the lead man's spear and, continuing with the blow, decapitated the soldier.†   (source)
  • Piper had decapitated the middle one.†   (source)
  • The question slipped out before I had a chance to think about whether it was weird, whether it was rude, or whether it would get me decapitated.†   (source)
  • There I was, floating in the darkness of nonexistence, minding my own business, trying to get over the fact that I'd just been decapitated.†   (source)
  • Harry laid down his quill too, having just finished predicting his own death by decapitation.†   (source)
  • So I stopped thinking about the layers and the warmth, muted the TV, and focused on Decapitation.†   (source)
  • Decapitation deals nicely with skin healers.†   (source)
  • It sounded, to me, like the automatic gunfire in Decapitation, except louder.†   (source)
  • Hiro chooses a direction, swings it sideways, decapitates one of them.†   (source)
  • The griffin's tail swept over my head and just missed decapitating me.†   (source)
  • A gryphon soared overhead, almost decapitating him with its talons.†   (source)
  • He slashed his blade across the top, decapitating the controls in a shower of bronze sparks.†   (source)
  • Raising his ax high, the monster took three running steps and aimed a decapitating blow.†   (source)
  • We Have a Pre-decapitation Party, with Egg Rolls†   (source)
  • She immediately remembered face telling her not to go for the chest wound but for the decapitation.†   (source)
  • A frightful blow from a curving saber dazed Max and he barely escaped decapitation.†   (source)
  • Apparently these spirits did—which meant more enemies who could beat, stab, or decapitate him.†   (source)
  • Decapitation is not a healthy lifestyle choice.†   (source)
  • Heimdall raised his sword blade over his eyes like a visor, nearly decapitating me in the process.†   (source)
  • I think that's why she never really worried about me—as long as I wasn't ritually decapitating gerbils or urinating on my own face, she figured I was a success.†   (source)
  • Decapitation.†   (source)
  • Whether they are destroyed individually or in groups, or however it is done, with mass bombing, poisonous smoke, poisons, drowning, decapitation, or what, dispose of them as the situation dictates ….†   (source)
  • In order to bring this forced intercourse about, it had been necessary for Noah and Simon to prevent Hester from locking herself in her bathroom—which she attempted— and then it was necessary for them to tie her to her bed, which they managed to do after a violent struggle that included the decapitation of one of Hester's more fragile stuffed animals, which she had futilely ruined by beating her brothers with it.†   (source)
  • She coaxed me onto the couch, and we played Decapitation together until she abruptly dropped the controller.†   (source)
  • Jace— But he was already running at the thing, sweeping Jahoel down in a long arc meant to decapitate, but the thing just shuddered again and reformed, this time behind him.†   (source)
  • I'd rather you were as ragged as a molting deer than have you decapitate yourself for the sake of a close shave.†   (source)
  • That just made the warriors laugh harder, as if decapitation were a hazing ritual no worse than a wedgie.†   (source)
  • We had a brief sword battle with Big Lou from floor 401—great guy, but he always wants to die by decapitation.†   (source)
  • In fact, I had no time to look, as the presiding judge had already started pronouncing a rigmarole to the effect that "in the name of the French people" I was to be decapitated in some public place.†   (source)
  • When sufficient kerns had been decapitated and sufficient rough handling had been dealt out to the English captains, Arthur would recognize the impossibility of further resistance.†   (source)
  • Eugene lolled about feebly on the floor, kicking one leg out gently as if he had just been decapitated, and fumbling blindly at the neckband of his nightshirt.†   (source)
  • Legendary kings like John had been accustomed to hang twenty-eight hostages before dinner; or, like Philip, had been defended by "sergeants-at-mace," a kind of storm troopers who guarded their lord with maces; or, like Louis, had decapitated their enemies on scaffolds under the blood of which the children of the enemy had been forced to stand.†   (source)
  • The decapitated colossus reeled like a drunken giant; but it did not fall over.†   (source)
  • The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the Christ.†   (source)
  • Struggling a little still, like a decapitated animal she forgot about Dick and her new white eyes, forgot Tommy himself and sank deeper and deeper into the minutes and the moment….†   (source)
  • Mr. Hall, endeavouring to act on instructions, received a sounding kick in the ribs that disposed of him for a moment, and Mr. Wadgers, seeing the decapitated stranger had rolled over and got the upper side of Jaffers, retreated towards the door, knife in hand, and so collided with Mr. Huxter and the Sidderbridge carter coming to the rescue of law and order.†   (source)
  • The Pequod's whale being decapitated and the body stripped, the head was hoisted against the ship's side—about half way out of the sea, so that it might yet in great part be buoyed up by its native element.†   (source)
  • To be decapitated?†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, the press had taken up my affair, and kept me for a week or two careering through the public prints, in my decapitated state, like Irving's Headless Horseman, ghastly and grim, and longing to be buried, as a political dead man ought.†   (source)
  • Here there was a choke that couldn't be controlled, so he decapitated buttercups while he cleared his 'confounded throat'.†   (source)
  • It is this decapitated end of the head, also, which is at last elevated out of the water, and retained in that position by the enormous cutting tackles, whose hempen combinations, on one side, make quite a wilderness of ropes in that quarter.†   (source)
  • Keeping up the metaphor of the political guillotine, the whole may be considered as the POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF A DECAPITATED SURVEYOR: and the sketch which I am now bringing to a close, if too autobiographical for a modest person to publish in his lifetime, will readily be excused in a gentleman who writes from beyond the grave.†   (source)
  • There was something about it of the dirt which is on the point of being swept out, and something of the majesty which is on the point of being decapitated.†   (source)
  • There was a fishy flavor to the milk, too, which I could not at all account for, till one morning happening to take a stroll along the beach among some fishermen's boats, I saw Hosea's brindled cow feeding on fish remnants, and marching along the sand with each foot in a cod's decapitated head, looking very slip-shod, I assure ye.†   (source)
  • A decapitated Alexis, a poignarded Peter, a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils poisoned, all this indicates that the palace of the Emperors of Russia is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity.†   (source)
  • "Well, Decapitator, Guardian of the State, Royalist, Brutus, what is the matter?" said one.†   (source)
  • Then, internally, "If Renee could see me, I hope she would be satisfied, and would no longer call me a decapitator."†   (source)
  • …of the high works of justice in Paris, the sum of sixty sols parisis, to him assessed and ordained by monseigneur the provost of Paris, for having bought, by order of the said sieur the provost, a great broad sword, serving to execute and decapitate persons who are by justice condemned for their demerits, and he hath caused the same to be garnished with a sheath and with all things thereto appertaining; and hath likewise caused to be repointed and set in order the old sword, which had…†   (source)
  • While thus speaking, we were actively engaged in the decapitation of the walrus, and in cutting off long strips of its skin.†   (source)
  • Although this signal was certainly expected, it took the assailed a little by surprise, and the veteran approached the works, crying, " Courage, my brave lads! give them no quarter unless they surrender;" and struck a furious blow upward with his sabre, that would have divided the steward into moieties by subjecting him to the process of decapitation, but for the fortunate interference of the muzzle of the swivel.†   (source)
  • As in decapitating the whale, the operator's instrument is brought close to the spot where an entrance is subsequently forced into the spermaceti magazine; he has, therefore, to be uncommonly heedful, lest a careless, untimely stroke should invade the sanctuary and wastingly let out its invaluable contents.†   (source)
  • Taking a few turns on the quarter-deck, he paused to gaze over the side, then slowly getting into the main-chains he took Stubb's long spade—still remaining there after the whale's Decapitation—and striking it into the lower part of the half-suspended mass, placed its other end crutch-wise under one arm, and so stood leaning over with eyes attentively fixed on this head.†   (source)
  • As he awaited the fatal signal he tested the edge of his horrible weapon by honing it upon his brawny forearm or decapitated in rapid succession a flock of sheep which had been provided by the admirers of his fell but necessary office.†   (source)
  • Dorothea comforted Sancho, telling him that she pledged herself, as soon as it should appear certain that his master had decapitated the giant, and she found herself peacefully established in her kingdom, to bestow upon him the best county there was in it.†   (source)
  • …with me in battle!" and suiting the action to the word, he drew his sword, and with one bound placed himself close to the show, and with unexampled rapidity and fury began to shower down blows on the puppet troop of Moors, knocking over some, decapitating others, maiming this one and demolishing that; and among many more he delivered one down stroke which, if Master Pedro had not ducked, made himself small, and got out of the way, would have sliced off his head as easily as if it had…†   (source)
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