Sentence example with the word 'impales'

impales

Last update: June 14, 2015


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It usually impales its victim upon a thorn, or thrusts it in the fork of a limb.   [Please select]

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On a background which is scarcely indicated, with few strokes, which barely suggest space, he impales like a butterfly the human type, mostly in a moment of folly or wickedness.   [Please select]

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He next impales the member on the other side, keeping the back of the knife, as on the former occasion, as close to the bone as possible, and draws it forth in the same manner.   [Please select]

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That it impales insects and even young birds on thorns there can be no doubt as it has been watched by a competent observer in the very act of thus dealing with the carcase of a hedge-sparrow.   [Please select]

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She makes no remark, but stepping towards the yucca and reaching up, impales the piece of paper on one of its topmost spikes.   [Please select]

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Every shrike thus either impales or else hangs up, as a butcher does his meat, more little birds of many kinds, field-mice, grasshoppers, and other large insects than it can hope to devour in a week of bloody orgies.   [Please select]

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