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  • The Japanese turned on civilians, engaging in killing contests, raping tens of thousands of people, mutilating and crucifying them, and provoking dogs to maul them.†   (source)
  • Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down.†   (source)
  • And that one, the fat one, the glutton, the bomber, the mutilator of innocent children.†   (source)
  • Is its hidden, mutilated state a punishment?†   (source)
  • Before she was obsessed with death rock and vampires and self-mutilation; now she was interested in photography (her favorite photographer was Dorothea Lange) and poetry and nature.†   (source)
  • If you shout or scream, your time in solitary is extended; if you hurt yourself by refusing to eat or mutilating your body, your time in solitary is extended; if you complain to officers or say anything menacing or inappropriate, your time in solitary is extended.†   (source)
  • Bit stupid really, now he hasn't even got Mega-Mutilation Part Three to take his mind off things.†   (source)
  • They enticed him into a parking garage and beat and kicked him so brutally that an expert in trauma injury testified that when the victim arrived at the hospital he was "probably the most mutilated person I have ever seen still alive."†   (source)
  • Mutilated.†   (source)
  • All found in forgotten hallways; all mutilated beyond recognition.†   (source)
  • The rebels called this mutilation "one love."†   (source)
  • My finger is a perfect fit; we handicapped people must learn to make the best of our mutilations and disfigurements.†   (source)
  • Langdon wondered how Christians of the world would react to cardinals being laid out like mutilated dogs.†   (source)
  • The windows near the ceiling were small and dirty, the old leather furniture spilled its innards, the tables were mutilated, the walls ash-colored, the floor concrete.†   (source)
  • The students cheered and triumphantly threw the mutilated shoes into the air.†   (source)
  • When they shut their eyes, they saw those mutilated bodies.†   (source)
  • He brought out a sharp razor from the goatskin bag slung from his left shoulder and began to mutilate the child.†   (source)
  • But I didn't do anything to the soon-to-be-mutilated MAV today.†   (source)
  • That bodies had been mutilated beyond recognition.†   (source)
  • They said she had forced her stepdaughter to mutilate her own face because, at the sweet age of thirteen, she had become more beautiful than the jealous queen could stand.†   (source)
  • On his train rides through Mexico, he told me, he had witnessed five separate incidents where migrants had been mutilated by the train.†   (source)
  • In all the horror-show homes I'd lived in, I never once saw mutilation like that.†   (source)
  • Recurrent suicidal threats, gestures, or behavior and other self-mutilating behavior (e. g., wrist-scratching) are common in the more severe forms of the disorder.†   (source)
  • She had recurrent nightmares of mutilating people in a brakeless car.†   (source)
  • When the neighbors brought her husband's body home, it had been mutilated and burnt.†   (source)
  • They will stoop to any form of base warfare: torture, beheading, mutilation.†   (source)
  • At nine there was an appearance by some activist wanting the Circle's help in her campaign against vaginal mutilation in Malawi.†   (source)
  • The women were horribly mutilated and in terrible pain, but at each moan two of the nurses jeered and mimicked the sounds.†   (source)
  • He halted, stared at the five that were left encased in their mutilated cellophane sheet, and gobbled a fourth.†   (source)
  • Together they look like teamster officials assembled to identify the body of a mutilated colleague.†   (source)
  • Anyone who mutilates themselves like that—†   (source)
  • Floria, who was busy running a Cleveland beauty salon, would cook for him, clean for him, shower him with love and keep giving him yet another chance, only to have Nathaniel trash the furniture, smash lamps and mutilate the walls with nonsensical drawings.†   (source)
  • So the self-mutilation was worth it.†   (source)
  • When they realized they could not reach the parrot even with their extension ladders, the firemen began to chop at the branches with machetes, and only the opportune arrival of Dr. Urbino Daza prevented them from mutilating the tree all the way to the trunk.†   (source)
  • The others died-betrayed, mauled, mutilated, poisoned, or cursed by the gods.†   (source)
  • There was also no sign of the mutilated photographs.†   (source)
  • His genitals had been mutilated.†   (source)
  • It would also be worth checking to see if there were any cases of animal abuse or mutilation in the area back then.†   (source)
  • Her body should be quite warm when the Prince reaches her mutilated form.†   (source)
  • His nose ran, and tears dripped from the corner of his left eye socket, which was the less mutilated of the two.†   (source)
  • The reason I remember this so well is the impression it made on me because "mutilation" of Army property was a crime for which you could get severely punished.†   (source)
  • It went into specific detail about cattle mutilation-I find it very suspicious when a cow in Nevada winds up missing its kidneys and the incision doesn't show any trauma to tissue or blood loss.†   (source)
  • In the place in Vivaldo's mind in which books lived, whether they were great, mangled, mutilated, or mad, Richard's book did not exist.†   (source)
  • Some among us maintained that circumcision as practiced by the Xhosa and other tribes was not only an unnecessary mutilation of the body, but a reversion to the type of tribalism that the ANC was seeking to overthrow.†   (source)
  • That rabbit with the mutilated ears—†   (source)
  • (A Yoruba exclamation for admiration) You wear it well …. very well …. mutilated hair and all.†   (source)
  • As if he had mutilated the language in his fury— and now there was nothing to stand between them and his raw, dumb anger.†   (source)
  • It would have been hard to miss, considering you mutilated that driver.†   (source)
  • Cottonville was a town distraught, and the Hardwick servants had seized the occasion to run out for a bit of delectable gossip in which the least of the horrors included Gray Stoddard's murdered and mutilated body washed down in some mountain stream to the sight of his friends.†   (source)
  • The French have come into my house to mutilate my billiard game.†   (source)
  • Even lower on the list were the 400-series: faking sick, tattooing or self-mutilation, conducting a business, or unauthorized physical contact (like hugging someone who was crying).†   (source)
  • What else would you feed the kind of monster that would brutally mutilate its own mother?†   (source)
  • I want his signature recorded, digitalized, folded, spindled, and mutilated.†   (source)
  • It was difficult back then to envision the Council on Foreign Relations fretting about maternal mortality or female genital mutilation.†   (source)
  • Aidid supporters had mutilated the dead soldiers' bodies while the pilot and copilot evaded capture.†   (source)
  • The American Embassy in Islamabad declined to issue Mortenson another passport, since his was "suspiciously mutilated."†   (source)
  • A Marine patrol later found the mutilated corpses.†   (source)
  • I keep drawing so I don't have to look at him, but I'm mutilating the sketch I'm working on.†   (source)
  • The mutilated bodies of the bride and groom were lying side by side.†   (source)
  • Trueba averted his glance to keep from looking at Pedro Tercero's mutilated hand.†   (source)
  • 'It's filled with pain and mutilation and death.†   (source)
  • I was too busy coming up with ways to mutilate Louisa's perfect little face.†   (source)
  • Ever since Genet's mutilation, we'd slept separately except for a brief period around Ghosh's death.†   (source)
  • The mutilated bodies of two soldiers were found concealed in a brothel.†   (source)
  • Her tiny, helpless body mutilated, blood spreading like a pool.†   (source)
  • I would have liked to have met him when he was a boy, before time had mutilated him so.†   (source)
  • Bourne crept across the floor to the mutilated door, lurched through it and ran into the living room.†   (source)
  • "Tell me about your urge to mutilate the human form," he asked me.†   (source)
  • An investigative reporter specializing in stories about particularly heinous criminals—serial killers, child abusers, rapists who mutilated their victims—she was driven by an obsession that Joe had never fully understood, prowling the bleakest chambers of the human heart, compelled to immerse herself in stories of blood and madness, seeking meaning in the most meaningless acts of human savagery.†   (source)
  • Women raped and mutilated, children butchered in their mothers' arms, half the town put to the torch.†   (source)
  • When I thought of little Petra, mutilated and thrust naked into Fringes country, to perish or survive as it should chance.†   (source)
  • Eugenides held up his mutilated arm.†   (source)
  • A bulk-sized box of Snickers and a Tupperware container of homemade brownies had been placed on the table next to laminated photos of mutilated bodies.†   (source)
  • He's been beaten, mutilated, and bleeding for days, yet he can still fight off several men at a time.†   (source)
  • "Sorry if that upsets you," Nelson says, "but the rebels have mutilated folks from the very beginning.†   (source)
  • I passed a dead seagull that the crabs had mutilated.†   (source)
  • I have traveled through this world and listened as woman after woman tells of being date-raped, or acid burned, genitally mutilated, beaten by her boyfriend, or molested by her stepfather.†   (source)
  • His secret love for John compels him to hold on to her body for horrible acts of mutilation and necrophilia.†   (source)
  • Fabio would rather be dead than mutilated, wouldn't you, Fabio?†   (source)
  • Saw much of the work I had done in the way of severed limbs, decapitated bodies, and mutilated remains of all kinds.†   (source)
  • Cal has learned a thing or two from Crawford: razoring is anger; self-mutilation is anger.†   (source)
  • When the Battle of the Little Bighorn was over, the bodies of the slain soldiers were stripped and mutilated, thanks to an Indian belief that the soul of a mutilated body would wander the earth without rest for eternity.†   (source)
  • Amazed at the power of the blade but not having time even to gawk at his mutilated victim, Drizzt resumed his chase.†   (source)
  • Alcibiades had other strikes against him: four years earlier, Alcibiades had fled to Sparta to avoid facing trial for mutilating religious pillars--statues of Hermes--and while in Sparta had proposed to that state's leaders that he help them defeat Athens.†   (source)
  • It would also explain the extraordinary number of stab wounds and the mutilation.†   (source)
  • Computers only changed that in that they could resolve the image more precisely, fold, spindle and mutilate, and a CCD chip was used instead of a plate.†   (source)
  • One can scarcely conceive the full horror of it unless one is a parent who takes a close look at his children and then asks himself how he would feel if a group of men should come to his door and tell him they had decided—for reasons of convenience to them—that his children's lives would henceforth be restricted, their world smaller, their educational opportunities less, their future mutilated.†   (source)
  • Somebody else runs in with news that the body of Domenico, Niccolo's faithless friend, has been found mutilated; but tucked in his shoe was a message, somehow scrawled in blood, revealing Niccolo's true identity.†   (source)
  • The plot is cute and complex, having largely to do with an alleged conspiracy on the part of Brandon Strathaway—Willard's tycoon father—to dispose of old Ezra, whose hideously mutilated corpse is indeed found one morning in the entrails of a mechanical cranberry picker.†   (source)
  • His body had been mutilated, his head cut off and spiked.†   (source)
  • You'll know, when I've put it through fire and water, that the corner you hold in your hand fits the mutilated card?"†   (source)
  • "Also," he continued, "think not to engage in the customary mutilation of the wounded and the slain-for this is a holy place and should not be profaned in such a manner.†   (source)
  • A month later a railroad porter in Dresden, a discarded agent from Peter Guillam's network, was found dead and mutilated beside a railroad track.†   (source)
  • On one stretcher lay a man who had been mutilated in a particularly monstrous way.†   (source)
  • Puli was standing some distance away; from somewhere he had produced a begging bowl which he held in the crook of his elbow, while he displayed his mutilated hands to the passers-by.†   (source)
  • When Andrew Jackson's personal and political popularity brought increased support for Senator Benton's long-pending measure to expunge from the Senate Journal the resolution censuring Jackson for his unauthorized actions against the Bank of the United States, Senator John Tyler of Virginia, convinced that mutilation of the Journal was unconstitutional and unworthy of the Senate, stood his ground.†   (source)
  • With heat, acid, stain, and scissors, he mutilated the game instructions; and every bum, every cut, every slash was a blow at D'Courtney's writhing body.†   (source)
  • The trees were growing up again, but over the whole three thousand acres of land there was nothing to be seen but stunted second growth: short, ugly little trees from mutilated trunks.†   (source)
  • The stump of his mutilated tail wagged wildly, and he tap-danced like he was treading on hot coal.†   (source)
  • Ever so gently, she begins to clean the mutilated flesh on Gale's back.†   (source)
  • "Professor," drawled Malfoy, "Weasley's mutilating my roots, sit."†   (source)
  • I ought to have thrown this mutilated picture away, but I didn't.†   (source)
  • "I'm so, so sorry," she whispered, setting the mutilated wrist down on Peony's stomach and standing.†   (source)
  • Self-mutilating behavior (e. g., wrist-scratching)…†   (source)
  • In eighteen months, Daaz has had to bury eight of them, nearly all mutilated by the trains.†   (source)
  • I slept in after the mutilated-tongue nightmares kept me up half the night.†   (source)
  • This woman had allowed her heathen husband to mutilate her dead child.†   (source)
  • He broke off and Clary heard Alec's voice in her head, saying: They mutilate themselves.†   (source)
  • But why, in that case, put a mutilated cat on our porch?†   (source)
  • "Random mutilation," Langdon explained, "is very …. un-Illuminati.†   (source)
  • They pick up three migrants mutilated by the train in as many days.†   (source)
  • Soon the mutilation became symbolic only: an oblong blue tattoo at the V of the collarbone.†   (source)
  • She understood now what Isabelle had meant by mutilation.†   (source)
  • And so it was mutilated to discourage it from returning.†   (source)
  • How power doesn't just corrupt in the wrong hands, it mutilates.†   (source)
  • The new and improved Erasers would mutilate us before they killed us?†   (source)
  • He doesn't rough them up, doesn't sexually assault or mutilate.†   (source)
  • He shook it out and put it over Bannerman's mutilated body.†   (source)
  • He glanced resentfully at a pile of mutilated stuffed animals heaped in the corner of the porch.†   (source)
  • But Sula was so scared she had mutilated herself, to protect herself.†   (source)
  • Since then five other people have been murdered, their bodies similarly mutilated.†   (source)
  • And she kept smiling as, slowly, the blade mutilated her body.†   (source)
  • There was a panic in the street —perhaps an accident, mutilation, death.†   (source)
  • I thought you were responsible for Genet being mutilated, circumcised, and all that followed.†   (source)
  • Count Two charged her with abusing the corpse by mutilation.†   (source)
  • He did not want to think of the mutilated under-side of the fish.†   (source)
  • And you should never rule out mutilation, torture, and murder at times like these.†   (source)
  • And so to accommodate that—you mutilate it every week?†   (source)
  • The impassioned pleas of a dead, mutilated female prisoner had to be put out of mind.†   (source)
  • "That doesn't mean he deserved to be brutally murdered and mutilated.†   (source)
  • The assassin's half-mutilated right arm was no match for the man from Medusa.†   (source)
  • I stare at her face, wondering if her parents actually named her Tigris, inspiring her mutilation, or if she chose the style and changed her name to match her stripes.†   (source)
  • There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeoned to death or mutilated, interfered with, as they used to say, but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men.†   (source)
  • How could Lord Voldemort not have known, if he, himself, most important and precious, had been attacked, mutilated?†   (source)
  • This unfortunate War had already killed and wounded so many, and we saw the results daily, as yet more men and boys were brought in to our improvised Hospitals, mutilated and blinded, or out of their minds with infectious fevers; and every one of them a dearly loved Son.†   (source)
  • When Voldemort discovered that the diary had been mutilated and robbed of all its powers, I am told that his anger was terrible to behold.†   (source)
  • Hikers had found the mutilated and partly dismembered remains of a young man in the eastern section of Grider Wildlife Preserve.†   (source)
  • One report described the "cold, terrible beauty" of young woman found "dancing" in the wilds of the White Mountains, her mutilated arms tied to tree limbs high above.†   (source)
  • They think nothing of slaughtering thousands of people; they've stabbed and mutilated young American soldiers, like something out of the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • Fascinated by suffering, he forced sick and injured captives to come to him for "treatment," then tortured and mutilated them while quizzing them on their pain, his mouth curved in a moist smile.†   (source)
  • "So, since I unfollowed her Tumblr because I didn't wanna see any more pictures of that mutilated kid on my dashboard—"†   (source)
  • Her hair is white, and it is this feature—not the mutilated lower face—that jars me and takes me aback when I see her.†   (source)
  • Moody watched him until he was out of sight, his magical eye fixed upon his back, a look of intense dislike upon his mutilated face.†   (source)
  • There was endless talk about the "sexiness" of black clothes and makeup, the "fun" of contraband alcohol, marijuana, and self-mutilation, and the adventures of a classmate whose girlfriend went to "this satanic church, cult thing where you have to drink a kitten's blood to get in."†   (source)
  • Headmaster White and Chief Ben Pike were all for "throwing the book" at Owen Meany for the theft and mutilation of Mary Magdalene.†   (source)
  • His mutilated hand was the only thing attached to the gate, and shamefully, he dragged it free and followed.†   (source)
  • My head's reeling from the ghastly events of the last five minutes--Boggs mutilated, dying, dead, Peeta's homicidal rage, Mitchell bloody and netted and swallowed by that foul black wave.†   (source)
  • I do not think he understands why, Harry, but then, he was in such a hurry to mutilate his own soul, he never paused to understand the incomparable power of a soul that is untarnished and whole.†   (source)
  • In any case she didn't kill or mutilate Aunt Elizabeth, who a few days later, after she'd recovered from her seven hours behind the furnace and presumably from the interrogation — for the possibility of collusion would not have been ruled out, by the Aunts or by anyone else — was back in operation at the Center.†   (source)
  • That was a piece of cake next to guns and gangs and sexually transmitted diseases, not to mention the things parents had to be concerned about: pedophiles on the Web, designer drugs like ecstasy, school shootings, anorexia, bulimia, self-mutilation, the ozone layer, superbacteria.†   (source)
  • Dumbledore gone," whispered Mr. Weasley, but Mrs. Weasley had eyes only for her eldest son; she began to sob, tears falling onto Bill's mutilated face.†   (source)
  • We even slaughtered toads and indelicately placed their mutilated bodies in the holy goalie's upturned palms, staining her with amphibian gore.†   (source)
  • Robe me," said the high, cold voice from behind the steam, and Wormtail, sobbing and moaning, still cradling his mutilated arm, scrambled to pick up the black robes from the ground, got to his feet, reached up, and pulled them onehanded over his master's head.†   (source)
  • He had killed last night, killed and mutilated, and for him killing was like heroin …. each encounter satisfying only temporarily before increasing his longing for more.†   (source)
  • The redheaded girl, I found out when I went to the Capitol, was mutilated and turned into a mute servant called an Avox.†   (source)
  • Also convicted was Sueharu Kitamura—"the Quack"—who had mutilated his patients, bludgeoned Harris, and contributed to the deaths of four captives, including one who was carried from Ofuna at the war's end, hours from death, crying out "Quack" over and over again.†   (source)
  • Yet it fitted: Lord Voldomort has seemed to grow less human with the passing years, and the transformation he had undergone seemed to me to be only explainable if his soul was mutilated beyond the realms of what we might call 'usual evil' …."†   (source)
  • It was an insult to the Goddess to offer any who were blemished or flawed, and as time passed, the Snilfards began to mutilate their girls so they would be spared: they would lop off a finger or an earlobe, or some other small part.†   (source)
  • He disbelieved the story which even some of the most faithful confirmed, the story of really evil children who were not deterred by mutilation, but came back with all the scars.†   (source)
  • She goes from car to car, begging, with a picture of a mutilated migrant she's trying to help and the prescription she must fill.†   (source)
  • We mutilate ourselves.†   (source)
  • Mutilation.†   (source)
  • Owen and I were nineteen-year-old seniors at Gravesend Academy— at least a year older than the other members of our class—when Owen told me, point-blank, what he had expressed to me, symbolically, when he was eleven and had mutilated my armadillo.†   (source)
  • This was not a mutilation, said the priests, but an improvement — what could be more fitting for the servants of the Goddess of Silence?†   (source)
  • After such treatment it would think twice before coming again, unless it was one of the stubborn ones who returned, carrying the stamp of their mutilation—a missing finger or perhaps a dark line where the medicine man's razor had cut them.†   (source)
  • I was quite upset at how my best friend could have done this to me, until Dan Needham informed me that this was precisely what Owen felt he had done to me, and to himself: that we were both maimed and mutilated by what had happened to us.†   (source)
  • But the creche's most ominous message was that the little Lord Jesus himself was missing; the crib was empty—that was why the Virgin Mary had turned her mutilated face away; why one angel dashed its harp, and another screamed in anguish; why Joseph had lost a hand, and the cow a leg.†   (source)
  • She was a girl who believed in the supernatural, in what she was always calling "signs"—for example, the rather commonplace mutilation and murder of a robin by one of the Front Street cats; to witness this torture was "a sure sign" you would be involved with an even greater violence yet to come.†   (source)
  • We were both anxious for Owen, and agitated—not knowing how his presentation of the mutilated Mary Magdalene might make his dismissal from the academy appear more justified than it was; we were worried how his desecration of the statue of a saint might give those colleges and universities that were sure to accept him a certain reluctance.†   (source)
  • Sansa did not need to hear how her brother's body had been hacked and mutilated, he decided; nor how her mother's corpse had been dumped naked into the Green Fork in a savage mockery of House Tully's funeral customs.†   (source)
  • Whole villages put to the torch, women raped and mutilated, butchered children left unburied to draw wolves and wild dogs …. it would sicken even the dead.†   (source)
  • Mutilated, dismembered, tortured bodies, ripped into grotesque shreds… I had clearly seen the vestigial feelers still attached to the truncated anterior section of a child.†   (source)
  • The family mutilated on the floor.†   (source)
  • He had mutilated genitalia in the past.†   (source)
  • You look at the faces on the screen and you see the mutilated yearning, the inner divisions of people and systems, and how forces will clash and fasten, compelling the swerve from evenness that marks a thing lastingly You realize the orchestra has been silent for a time.†   (source)
  • A lot of Jews think you can't donate organs, because it violates Jewish law—you're not supposed to mutilate the body after death; you're supposed to bury it as soon as possible.†   (source)
  • Now Joseph Warren was dead at age thirty-four, shot through the face, his body horribly mutilated by British bayonets.†   (source)
  • He unlocked the door and pushed it open as a man might entering a storage vault filled with mutilated corpses.†   (source)
  • This corpus had also given Carrie endless nightmares in which the mutilated Christ chased her through dream corridors, holding a mallet and nails, begging her to take up her cross and follow Him.†   (source)
  • As he fantasized about tearing down the cathedral with Saphira's help, it occurred to him to wonder if the religion of the priests who practiced self-mutilation had a name.†   (source)
  • And Loki stood unchained before us in all his mutilated glory, ice clinging to his hair, poison dripping from his face.†   (source)
  • Roran was proud of his body, and seeing it mutilated sent a jolt of panic through him, especially since the damage was permanent.†   (source)
  • Then Percy noticed that there was a whole pile of mutilated stuffed animals at the foot of Jupiter's statue.†   (source)
  • The rain had been so heavy, he recalled, it had mutilated the corpses to the point of being unrecognizable.†   (source)
  • Mutilated her.†   (source)
  • One dead old man from the Jackal's army of old men had outwitted all the security procedures, killing and mutilating those dearest to Carlos's ultimate enemy, Jason Bourne.†   (source)
  • Somehow, in the middle of trying to get me to save his life, Father Michael had neglected to mention that Shay had begun a course of self-mutilation.†   (source)
  • I can't count how many mutilated newspapers she's left on my kitchen table once she's cut her way through the birth announcements.†   (source)
  • The seats near the windows now had little plaques reserving them for men who had been mutilated in the war.†   (source)
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