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  • And that door ....Thomas fell to the floor after being released by his captor's claws, and despite the pain of several lacerations across his back and shoulders, elation surged through him so strongly he didn't know how to react.†   (source)
  • The iron clangs and his hands lacerate and his six-day beard glows white with dust, but Werner can see that Volkheimer makes quick progress: the sliver of light becomes a violet wedge, wider across than two of Werner's hands.†   (source)
  • He was famous for his lacerating cross-examinations.†   (source)
  • The skin had split open, and from the laceration of the scalp a tiny strand of pink brain material protruded.†   (source)
  • The nurse at Jamison puts a bandage over the laceration and asks me to hold an icy compress on my wound, which I do.†   (source)
  • The night was cold and the winds were lacerating but Mae didn't notice.†   (source)
  • According to the medical records, the girl-seventeen-had been admitted overnight for observation after a fainting spell, and had a laceration on the scalp.†   (source)
  • He proudly showed us the lacerations inside his mouth, and the hole in his cheek—all the while mopping up his mouth and face with a bloodsoaked wad of gauze, which he periodically wrung out in a bloodsoaked towel.†   (source)
  • Several more medic trucks come and go, dropping off soldiers, some with broken limbs, some with gashes on their heads or lacerations on their legs.†   (source)
  • She could see through the bloody cartilage into his mouth, and onto the back of his lacerated tongue.†   (source)
  • Long, dim, hours of thick, furry-tongued serenity (medically administered by Dr. Verghese Verghese) lacerated by sharp, steely slashes of hysteria, as keen and cutting as the edge of a new razor blade.†   (source)
  • The trek to San Antonio takes seven or eight days, in desert heat of up to 120 degrees, with diamondback rattlers, lacerating cactus needles, water slimy with cattle spit, saucer-sized tarantulas, and wild hogs with tusks.†   (source)
  • Peeta being tortured—drowned, burned, lacerated, shocked, maimed, beaten—as the Capitol tries to get information about the rebellion that he doesn't know.†   (source)
  • The whip lacerations hurt like burns.†   (source)
  • I got a laceration above my eye, and she broke her arm.†   (source)
  • IT WAS WELL PAST midnight by the time Kote made it back to Newarre with Chronicler's limp body slung across his lacerated shoulders.†   (source)
  • I think you'll agree it will make an unusual specimen, to possess not just a sample of your blood collected at mizuage, but also a sample taken from a laceration on your leg quite a number of months earlier.†   (source)
  • Upon discovering that Bertha Palmer was the wife of the hotel's owner, she inflicted a social laceration that Chicago would never forget or forgive.†   (source)
  • There was blood on his face from a scalp laceration that looked minor, but there was also blood running out of one of George's ears and that probably meant a concussion.†   (source)
  • Moreover the pane of a window could itself become shrapnel so easily, shattered by a nearby blast, and everyone had heard of someone or other who had bled out after being lacerated by shards of flying glass.†   (source)
  • Ursula untied his wrists and ankles, lacerated by the pressure of the rope, and left him tied only by the waist.†   (source)
  • The sharp edges lacerate my ankles.†   (source)
  • Jimmy Dean sits in the driver's seat with a broken neck, multiple fractures and lacerations.†   (source)
  • Missing fingers, broken bones, deep lacerations, and amputated limbs are difficult to conceal from authorities.†   (source)
  • Sources tell us that the teenager died of loss of blood associated with multiple lacerations, and that he might have been mauled by a large animal.†   (source)
  • He had a laceration to the liver.†   (source)
  • The fragile stick splintered so she used her fingernails, the gravelly cement lacerating her knuckles.†   (source)
  • The knife swerved as a result, leaving her with a long, jagged laceration twice as deep as the others.†   (source)
  • My hands are lacerated, I sound like I'm breathing through a gas mask, and I'm looking through a slit formed by the puffed lids of my right eye.†   (source)
  • After a while a doctor came and told me I had a sprained wrist, lacerations on my back, stitches to bind the cut by my right eye, and two bruised ribs.†   (source)
  • He said he told her if the laceration wasn't too deep he would be grateful if she treated it.†   (source)
  • His face, and especially his left temple, was misshapen, swollen, and lacerated; his right temple was also scarred, although this was clearly an older wound.†   (source)
  • The vaginal mucosa was severely extended, and I found small lacerations around the introitus.†   (source)
  • The projecting point of one strand had lacerated his neck and drops of blood, dark and red as yew berries, welled one by one down his shoulder.†   (source)
  • Lab reports show semen, and medicals show contusions and lacerations.†   (source)
  • For most of that week, he had not taken his customary, companionable dinner with Elinor but worked instead alone in his library composing, as I thought, a sermon that would lacerate.†   (source)
  • The emaciated survivors were driven sixty-five miles on foot for three days in lacerating heat to a prison camp: the infamous Bataan Death March.†   (source)
  • Lacerations and abrasions on other parts of the body were concordant with a struggle.†   (source)
  • You suffered thirteen wounds, a broken shoulder, a fractured skull, a lacerated kidney, and I'll still wager that you recover within the week.†   (source)
  • "Struggle if you must," said he, "but kindly remember that I'm hiding down here in this crate and I don't want to be stepped on, or kicked in the face, or pummeled, or crushed in any way, or squashed, or buffeted about, or bruised, or lacerated, or scarred, or billed.†   (source)
  • A broken wrist and lacerations requiring sutures on a man's throat and face, and another's skull.†   (source)
  • In his era, even simple lacerations often left diabetics with savage infections that necessitated limb and digit amputations, a consequence of the disease's ravaging effect on circulation and immunity.†   (source)
  • I find Abuela sitting motionless on her wicker swing, wearing a worn bathing suit, her hair stuck haphazardly to her skull, her feet strangely lacerated.†   (source)
  • He squeezed and poked her lacerated body.†   (source)
  • Then he grabbed Rafi's wrist and helped him through the same frantic motions until they both lay face down on the roof, breathing hard, sweating, filthy with soot, and covered with blood from their lacerated hands.†   (source)
  • There were no lacerations or obvious contusions, but that meant nothing; serious brain trauma was still possible.†   (source)
  • Undone, I put my hands over my ears, but the screams cut through my fingers and my eardrums felt as if they were being lacerated with glass.†   (source)
  • Arterial bleeding, right carotid ...Severed jugular; numerous lacerations of shoulders and chest ...According to Martha Millay, a dolphin would not go about it that way.†   (source)
  • This inability to comprehend on any real level of awareness was another reason why she so rarely had spoken to anyone about it, totally aside from the lacerating pain it caused her to dwell on that part of the past.†   (source)
  • At the hospital, just then, a boy fifteen was being admitted through Emergency with multiple lacerations.†   (source)
  • Old enough for nursery school they said, and I did not know then what I know now—the fatigue of the long day, and the lacerations of group life in the kinds of nurseries that are only parking places for children.†   (source)
  • As liver lacerations go, this is about as good as they get.   (source)
    lacerations = cuts
  • Can I hug you without lacerating your liver?   (source)
    lacerating = cutting
  • Good news, it's a mild laceration.   (source)
    laceration = cut
  • Surely you don't think drinking hand sanitizer while hospitalized for a lacerated liver marks forward progress in your mental health journey.   (source)
  • I had switched to a different medication, which Mom made sure I took every morning, and I wasn't allowed to get up except to go to the bathroom lest I re-lacerate my liver.   (source)
  • I lacerated my liver!   (source)
  • To treat a minor laceration, clean the cut and close it.
    laceration = cut with irregular edges
  • If tetanus shots are not up-to-date, it might be wise to get one after any laceration.
  • The laceration on his shoulder welled blood that splattered on the peeling porch steps.†   (source)
  • There were three splotches of blood below the keyhole from his lacerated knuckles.†   (source)
  • Tell them only that they are to bring what is needful to repair a straight, shallow laceration.†   (source)
  • He was no longer foaming; his muzzle was a dried and lacerated horror.†   (source)
  • There was also a small bit of brain material showing through the laceration.†   (source)
  • "Has the laceration on your thigh healed satisfactorily?" he asked.†   (source)
  • It was a laceration about two and a half inches long just slightly above the left ear.†   (source)
  • The young corpsman ignored his own wounds and once again dressed Wheeler's laceration.†   (source)
  • And now Pennel himself was a lacerated casualty, needing rescue.†   (source)
  • The Marine's hands were badly lacerated but he held on to the sword as a souvenir.†   (source)
  • Mayers shouted to the lacerated Dortsch: "Do you have any guns?"†   (source)
  • Self-lacerating worries began to dog me.†   (source)
  • She coils and uncoils the phone cord around her finger as he recounts her mother's hospital visit, the forehead laceration, the sutures, the precautionary tetanus injection, the aftercare of peroxide, topical antibiotics, dressings.†   (source)
  • So that at eight in the morning half the town was in the square, where Father Nicanor chanted the gospels in a voice that had been lacerated by his pleading.†   (source)
  • This impression was dispelled early on when a probationer in Briony's year, a large, kindly, slow-moving girl with a cow's harmless gaze, met the lacerating force of the ward sister's fury.†   (source)
  • Giving her some small, orphaned kisses in the hollow of her wounded hand, he opened up the most hidden passageways of his heart and drew out an interminable and lacerated intestine, the terrible parasitic animal that had incubated in his martyrdom.†   (source)
  • By the time the lacerated punctures had finally clotted, her thigh and the driver's bucket seat were both tacky with her blood.†   (source)
  • As she saw the dress make its perfect, clinging fit around her cousin and witnessed her mother's heartless smile, Briony knew her only reasonable choice then would be to run away, to live under hedges, eat berries and speak to no one, and be found by a bearded woodsman one winter's dawn, curled up at the base of a giant oak, beautiful and dead, and barefoot, or perhaps wearing the ballet pumps with the pink ribbon straps ....Self-pity needed her full attention, and only in solitude could she breathe life into the lacerating details, but at the instant of her assent—how the tilt of a skull could change a life!†   (source)
  • 'A secondary and minor laceration of the right hand is noted, of recent origin, and extends laterally from the fold between the thumb and forefinger to the outside of the wrist.'†   (source)
  • She kicked out at him, and the sole of her sandal struck his muzzle, already badly lacerated in his earlier kamikaze charges at the door.†   (source)
  • The coroner who examined the deceased in question included mention in his report of, if I remember it correctly, a 'secondary and minor laceration of the right hand extending laterally from the fold between the thumb and forefinger to the outside of the wrist.'†   (source)
  • The two brothers faced each other and the savage ritual began as one made a desperate lunge and the other sidestepped away from the attack, his blade lacerating the attacker's face.†   (source)
  • Wind-whipped granules of ice and snow struck the climbers' faces with violent force, lacerating their eyes and making it impossible to see where they were going.†   (source)
  • On the raised platform in front of the rows of glistening wood was the young Ishmael, his body bent forward over the lectern, his arms hanging down, his dark face bruised and lacerated, blood trickling out of his mouth onto the floor.†   (source)
  • In addition, he'd inadvertently rubbed some ice crystals into his eyes, lacerating both corneas "At that point," Beck revealed, "one eye was completely blurred over, I could barely see out of the other, and I'd lost all depth perception.†   (source)
  • "Is Stone around?" was a common question in the casualty room, because he was the medical student who was more constant than Hogan or the other porters, always willing to stitch up a laceration, or pass a stomach tube, or run to the blood bank.†   (source)
  • It was on March 4 that the lacerated, exhausted Marines saw the first demonstration of why they were fighting and dying on the ugly little island.†   (source)
  • Where the horrible clamor had merely set my nerves ajangle, it had plainly lacerated her like some evil bullwhip.†   (source)
  • I dream a strange confounded dream in which intimations of bliss are transfused with lacerating pain.†   (source)
  • The sexual memory in which I was drenched during that season in Brooklyn, whenever I forlornly unloosed the floodgates, was of uneasy darkness, sweat, reproving murmurs, bands and sinews of obdurate elastic, lacerating little hooks and snaps, whispered prohibitions, straining erections, stuck zippers and a warm miasmal odor of the secretions from inflamed and obstructed glands.†   (source)
  • You had also suffered various lacerations.†   (source)
  • I've already had one of my best men sent in here with lacerations on his face.†   (source)
  • You have heard that your patient has two straight, clean lacerations.†   (source)
  • Only spent a couple hours at most in the river; the contusions and lacerations are evident.†   (source)
  • Paul Rousseau was bleeding heavily from numerous lacerations and cradling an obviously broken arm.†   (source)
  • "From multiple lacerations and loss of blood," Marx said.†   (source)
  • She had suffered numerous lacerations but no broken bones or internal injuries.†   (source)
  • The last time I'd seen Heath he'd been unconscious and bleeding from multiple lacerations.†   (source)
  • The lacerations were more than likely made by rocks, or perhaps even animals.†   (source)
  • Multiple lacerations, just like those other two kids.†   (source)
  • Elsewhere on the grounds four other men died and dozens more suffered all manner of fractures, burns, and lacerations.†   (source)
  • This was a guy who'd been drinking a bottle of beer when one car hit another; he'd been the driver of one of the cars, he said, and the bottleneck had broken in his mouth on impact—he had lacerations on the roof of his mouth, and his gums were slashed, and the broken neck of the bottle had pierced his cheek.†   (source)
  • The wheels of heavily loaded wagons sank deep into the mud and left gaping lacerations, adding to the list of wounds to be filled, smoothed, and sodded.†   (source)
  • Both arms were broken, along with multiple lacerations, contusions, I suspect internal injuries and a severe concussion.†   (source)
  • Lacerations are the most common injuries suffered by meatpackers, who often stab themselves or stab someone working nearby.†   (source)
  • "I could always tell the line speed," a former Monfort nurse told me, "by the number of people with lacerations coming into my office."†   (source)
  • In The Jungle (1906) Upton Sinclair described a litany of horrors: severe back and shoulder injuries, lacerations, amputations, exposure to dangerous chemicals, and memorably, a workplace accident in which a man fell into a vat and got turned into lard.†   (source)
  • But when at least one-third of meatpacking workers are injured every year, when the causes of those injuries are well known, when the means to prevent those injuries are readily available and yet not applied, there is nothing accidental about the lacerations, amputations, cumulative traumas, and deaths in the meatpacking industry.†   (source)
  • The cause of death is not being officially reported at this time, but sources have told Fox News that the boy died of blood loss through multiple lacerations.†   (source)
  • And while it is true that vampyres do not bite when they take blood from humans, the lacerations do follow a pattern that is consistent with vampyric feeding.†   (source)
  • Of course there is much speculation about these disappearances, especially since the medical examiner's report states that the cause of death of the other two abducted boys was blood loss from multiple bites and lacerations.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, they are remarkably beautiful, strung together in their honest lumplike English syllables, and as I see them now on the ledger's page, the page itself the hue of a dried daffodil and oxidized slowly by time into near-transparency, my eyes are arrested by the furious underlining—scratch scratch scratch, lacerations—as if the suffering Stingo whom I once inhabited, or who once inhabited me, learning at firsthand and for the first time in his grown-up life about death, and pain, and loss, and the appalling enigma of human existence, was trying physically to excavate from that paper the only remaining—perhaps the only bearable—truth.†   (source)
  • She patted the lacerated wrist with the cold towel.†   (source)
  • You change the subject when I am baring a loving but lacerated heart?†   (source)
  • My feelings are already lacerated with disappointment at discovering it was my money and not my charming self you wanted.†   (source)
  • All the way, he overtook dread— fully burned and lacerated people, and in his guilt he turned to right and left as he hurried and said to some of them, 'Excuse me far having no burden like yours.'†   (source)
  • He saw himself in his clown's trappings and thought of his former vision of success and honor with a lacerating self-contempt.†   (source)
  • She and the Pattons and the fellow who was stuck on her, and God knew who else, were going to pile into the car and drive forty miles to La Grange, a joint in the next county, on the road to the city, where there were a few dice tables and a couple of roulette wheels and where the best people rubbed shoulders with the worst and inhaled a communal blue fog of throat-lacerating tobacco smoke and illicit alcohol fumes.†   (source)
  • To praise his boots when he asked her to solace his soul; when he had shown her his bleeding hands, his lacerated heart, and asked her to pity them, then to say, cheerfully, "Ah, but what beautiful boots you wear!" deserved, she knew, and she looked up expecting to get it in one of his sudden roars of ill-temper complete annihilation.†   (source)
  • This human form, his friend's, lacerated by the spear-thrusts of the plague, consumed by searing, superhuman fires, buffeted by all the raging winds of heaven, was foundering under his eyes in the dark flood of the pestilence, and he could do nothing to avert the wreck.†   (source)
  • Where the natural impulse to complain against the holocaust has been suppressed—to cry out blame, or to announce panaceas—the magnitude of an art of tragedy more potent (for us) than the Greek finds realization: the realistic, intimate, and variously interesting tragedy of democracy, where the god is beheld crucified in the catastrophes not of the great houses only but of every common home, every scourged and lacerated face.†   (source)
  • She bolted upright and peered out of the window and saw Johnny Taylor lacerating her Janie with a kiss.†   (source)
  • And if a man of property greeted him, his lacerated but overgrown vanity would seize the crumb, and he would boast pitifully at home: "They all know Little Stevie!†   (source)
  • And he kept drifting about to find Becky and lacerate her with the performance.†   (source)
  • Then the calf of his leg was badly lacerated and looked as though it had been mangled by a bulldog.†   (source)
  • The kidnapper undid the bloody wrappings and looked at his lacerated hand.†   (source)
  • Suddenly he again felt that he was alive and suffering from a burning, lacerating pain in his head.†   (source)
  • If this letter lacerates you, do the same by it.†   (source)
  • They shrink by an ungovernable instinct, as they would shrink from laceration.†   (source)
  • Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more.†   (source)
  • It certainly was sitting by a 'laceration.'†   (source)
  • while I looked on at that, I held beneath my shroud a dagger, with which I lacerated my breast.†   (source)
  • One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at peace with himself.†   (source)
  • Cosette had meant to scratch, and she lacerated.†   (source)
  • I don't want to sit beside a 'laceration.'†   (source)
  • But what could he understand even in this "laceration"?†   (source)
  • A Laceration In The Cottage He certainly was really grieved in a way he had seldom been before.†   (source)
  • And the more he insults you, the more you love him—that's your 'laceration.'†   (source)
  • Her feeling for Dmitri was simply a self-laceration.†   (source)
  • "It was lacerating," as was said just now.†   (source)
  • Would you believe it, Ivan, that that lacerates my sentiments?†   (source)
  • She was only waiting for the hour that would bring the matter to a final climax; and every hint, every careless probing of her wound, did but further lacerate her heart.†   (source)
  • A strange thing, indeed, that those words, "two or three times," nothing more than a few words, words uttered in the air, at a distance, could so lacerate a man's heart, as if they had actually pierced it, could sicken a man, like a poison that he had drunk.†   (source)
  • She dragged him to an unholy sink, and, soaking a rag in water, began to scrub his lacerated face with it.†   (source)
  • Being but partly grown his jaws had not yet become large enough nor strong enough to make his throat-attack deadly; but many a young dog went around camp with a lacerated throat in token of White Fang's intention.†   (source)
  • He who in his childhood had saved the lives of the earthworms now began to picture the agonies of the rabbit from its lacerated leg.†   (source)
  • Yet anomalous, if not exactly unprecedented as it may seem, this condition of mingled sympathy and opposition gave rise at last to the feeling in him that come what might he must find some method of severing this tie, even though it lacerated Roberta to the point of death (Why should he care?†   (source)
  • And of course he knows himself that he is doing himself no sort of good with his moans; he knows better than anyone that he is only lacerating and harassing himself and others for nothing; he knows that even the audience before whom he is making his efforts, and his whole family, listen to him with loathing, do not put a ha'porth of faith in him, and inwardly understand that he might moan differently, more simply, without trills and flourishes, and that he is only amusing himself like that from ill-humour, from malignancy.†   (source)
  • He is a desperate slaveholder, who will shock the humanity of his non-slaveholding neighbors with the cries of his lacerated slave.†   (source)
  • He had been there at least an hour and a half, lacerated, maltreated, mocked incessantly, and almost stoned.†   (source)
  • The answer was a blank which Rosamond could only fill up with dread, for Will Ladislaw's lacerating words had made every thought of Dorothea a fresh smart to her.†   (source)
  • She had only a bruise or two about her,—nothing for a tramp,—but the backs of her hands were lacerated, and the question was, Was it with finger-nails?†   (source)
  • The shot had frightfully lacerated her throat, leaving two gaping wounds from which, as well as the mouth, the blood was pouring in floods.†   (source)
  • "Why, little miss, you've made yourself look very funny," said Uncle Pullet, and perhaps he never in his life made an observation which was felt to be so lacerating.†   (source)
  • And as he delivered the reply, Miss Squeers burst into a shower of tears; arising in part from desperate vexation, and in part from an impotent desire to lacerate somebody's countenance with her fair finger-nails.†   (source)
  • I softened considerably what related to the three days of wandering and starvation, because to have told him all would have been to inflict unnecessary pain: the little I did say lacerated his faithful heart deeper than I wished.†   (source)
  • But his threat lacerated my heart.†   (source)
  • At length, Madame Rigaud, in an access of fury that I must ever deplore, threw herself upon me with screams of passion (no doubt those that were overheard at some distance), tore my clothes, tore my hair, lacerated my hands, trampled and trod the dust, and finally leaped over, dashing herself to death upon the rocks below.†   (source)
  • 'My love,' said Mr. Micawber, much affected, 'you will forgive, and our old and tried friend Copperfield will, I am sure, forgive, the momentary laceration of a wounded spirit, made sensitive by a recent collision with the Minion of Power — in other words, with a ribald Turncock attached to the water-works — and will pity, not condemn, its excesses.'†   (source)
  • Then, in darting at the monster, knife in hand, he had but given loose to a sudden, passionate, corporal animosity; and when he received the stroke that tore him, he probably but felt the agonizing bodily laceration, but nothing more.†   (source)
  • The presence of a new gloom in her husband, about which he was entirely reserved towards her—for he dreaded to expose his lacerated feeling to her neutrality and misconception—soon received a painfully strange explanation, alien to all her previous notions of what could affect her happiness.†   (source)
  • It is well known that great scholars who have shown the most pitiless acerbity in their criticism of other men's scholarship have yet been of a relenting and indulgent temper in private life; and I have heard of a learned man meekly rocking the twins in the cradle with his left hand, while with his right he inflicted the most lacerating sarcasms on an opponent who had betrayed a brutal ignorance of Hebrew.†   (source)
  • Miss Rugg was a lady of a little property which she had acquired, together with much distinction in the neighbourhood, by having her heart severely lacerated and her feelings mangled by a middle-aged baker resident in the vicinity, against whom she had, by the agency of Mr Rugg, found it necessary to proceed at law to recover damages for a breach of promise of marriage.†   (source)
  • Master would keep this lacerated young woman tied up in this horrid situation four or five hours at a time.†   (source)
  • As the Inquisition rarely allowed its victims to be seen with their limbs distorted and their flesh lacerated by torture, so madness is always concealed in its cell, from whence, should it depart, it is conveyed to some gloomy hospital, where the doctor has no thought for man or mind in the mutilated being the jailer delivers to him.†   (source)
  • I was never cruelly overworked; I was never lacerated with the whip from head to foot; I was never so beaten and bruised that I could not turn from one side to the other; I never had my heel-strings cut to prevent my running away; I was never chained to a log and forced to drag it about, while I toiled in the fields from morning till night; I was never branded with hot iron, or torn by bloodhounds.†   (source)
  • As though he would say: "I am worrying you, I am lacerating your hearts, I am keeping everyone in the house awake.†   (source)
  • The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by the pocket-book, had turned aside and made the tour of his ribs with a hideous laceration, which was of no great depth, and consequently, not dangerous.†   (source)
  • Her hands were sunburnt and all dotted with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, and coarse shoes.†   (source)
  • These beings also lived with shorn heads, with downcast eyes, with lowered voices, not in disgrace, but amid the scoffs of the world, not with their backs bruised with the cudgel, but with their shoulders lacerated with their discipline.†   (source)
  • He was much lacerated.†   (source)
  • Chapter V. A Laceration In The Drawing-Room But in the drawing-room the conversation was already over.†   (source)
  • I am convinced that he did that from 'self-laceration,' from the self-laceration of falsity, for the sake of the charity imposed by duty, as a penance laid on him.†   (source)
  • Instead of a poor, insulted girl, weeping in a sort of "laceration," he saw a woman completely self-possessed and even exceedingly pleased, as though something agreeable had just happened.†   (source)
  • For you're torturing Ivan, simply because you love him—and torturing him, because you love Dmitri through 'self-laceration'—with an unreal love—because you've persuaded yourself.†   (source)
  • The word "lacerating," which Madame Hohlakov had just uttered, almost made him start, because half waking up towards daybreak that night he had cried out "Laceration, laceration," probably applying it to his dream.†   (source)
  • Now Alyosha was impressed by Madame Hohlakov's blunt and persistent assertion that Katerina Ivanovna was in love with Ivan, and only deceived herself through some sort of pose, from "self-laceration," and tortured herself by her pretended love for Dmitri from some fancied duty of gratitude.†   (source)
  • If you could only imagine what's passing between them now—it's awful, I tell you it's lacerating, it's like some incredible tale of horror.†   (source)
  • She had loved him with an hysterical, "lacerated" love only from pride, from wounded pride, and that love was not like love, but more like revenge.†   (source)
  • perhaps that lacerated love would have grown into real love, perhaps Katya longed for nothing more than that, but Mitya's faithlessness had wounded her to the bottom of her heart, and her heart could not forgive him.†   (source)
  • The word "lacerating," which Madame Hohlakov had just uttered, almost made him start, because half waking up towards daybreak that night he had cried out "Laceration, laceration," probably applying it to his dream.†   (source)
  • But when his blood no longer flowed, and the gash dried, then rays of pain lacerated Agamemnon.†   (source)
  • He wrapped him in his great shield's flap of gold to save him from laceration.†   (source)
  • Granted we break the gates and force a breach in the Akhaian wall, granted they fall back, we shall never make it intact to the ships by these same paths, but many a Trojan must we leave behind lacerated with bronze by the defenders.†   (source)
  • Next were the men of Phylake, and those who held Pyrasos, garden of Demeter, Iton, maternal town of grazing flocks, Antron beside the water, and the beds of meadow grass at Pteleos: all these were under Protesilaos' command when that intrepid fighter lived— but black earth held him under now, and grieving at Phylake with lacerated cheeks his bride was left, his house unfinished there.†   (source)
  • Lacerations of the scalp (he probed Does that hurt?†   (source)
  • Judith, giving implicit trust where she had given love, giving implicit love where she had derived breath and pride: that true pride, not that false kind which transforms what it does not at the moment understand into scorn and outrage and so vents itself in pique and lacerations, but true pride which can say to itself without abasement I love, I will accept no substitute; something has happened between him and my father; if my father was right, I will never see him again, if wrong he will come or send for me; if happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.†   (source)
  • Mixed in with the abrasions and lacerations which most people in the hospital had suffered, he began to find dreadful burns.†   (source)
  • By the light of a lantern, he had examined himself and found: left clavicle fractured; multiple abrasions and lacerations of face and body, including deep cuts on the chin, back, and legs; extensive contusions on chest and trunk: a couple of ribs possibly fractured.†   (source)
  • With the exception of several bad wounds, the rest were merely severe bruises and lacerations.†   (source)
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