"Lacerate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at first very large, simple, compound, or confluent, round, elongated, flexuous; the dissepiments dentate, then lacerate, the ...
— The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise - Its Habitat and its Time of Growth • M. E. Hard
... round Alcathous with long spears, whilst the brass resounded horribly on the breasts of them, aiming at each other through the crowd. But two warlike men, conspicuous among the rest, AEneas and Idomeneus, equal to Mars, longed to lacerate each other's flesh with the ruthless brass. But AEneas first hurled his javelin at Idomeneus; but he, perceiving it opposite, avoided the brazen spear; and the spear of AEneas sank quivering into the earth; for it fled in vain from his sturdy hand. Idomeneus ...
— The Iliad of Homer (1873) • Homer
... of despair, my darling," he said complacently. "Ship aho-o-o-y! Stop crying, Hetty, for God's sake. You lacerate ...
— An Unsocial Socialist • George Bernard Shaw
... lord, that you at that time fulfilled the commands of your royal master simply and exactly?" asked Catharine. "Did you keep within them with respect to Anne Askew? No! I say; for the king had not ordered you to torture her; he had not bidden you to lacerate in blasphemous wrath a noble human form, and distort that likeness of God into a horrible caricature. And that, my lord, you did! Before God and your king, I accuse you of it—I, the queen! For you know, my lord and husband, I was there ...
— Henry VIII And His Court • Louise Muhlbach
... first precept in their moral mode, the first article in their creed, the first resolution demanded by their religion. We have no confidence in a gloomy religion. Human souls were never made to do penance, to lacerate and torment themselves in worship or duty. Every truth in the theology of the Bible beams with a glory that ought to illuminate our minds with a light almost divine. Every principle of "the glorious Gospel of the blessed God" is benignant and smiling with the love ...
— Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women • George Sumner Weaver
... promiscuously in the stream. I did not observe that the former differed in any respect from the natives who frequent the located districts. They were generally clean limbed and stout, and some of the young men had pleasing intelligent countenances. They lacerate their bodies, inflicting deep wounds to raise the flesh, and extract the front teeth like the Bathurst tribes; and their weapons are precisely the same. They are certainly a merry people, and sit up laughing and talking more than ...
— Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete • Charles Sturt
... lacerate my feelings, spurn my proffered aid, insult my youthful pristine zeal, and then to call me back—in short, to throw a dog a ...
— Beatrice Leigh at College - A Story for Girls • Julia Augusta Schwartz |
