Sentence examples for ears cut off from inspiring English sources
They had their ears cut off.
"Only animals have their ears cut off".
Their mutilated bodies came home with eyes gouged out and ears cut off.
He said that some soldiers had their ears cut off or their limbs broken.
"Sure there were people raped, ears cut off and so on.
Others are found abandoned with their ears cut off to prevent identification from their tattoos".
He encounters spectacular displays of semiliteracy ("once he gets his ear cut off and sees the crucifixtion, thats basicly it").
Indeed, there is a specific and very ancient word, guo, that is specifically used to denote the left ear cut off a prisoner.
Dealer description: Historiated initial showing Christ being betrayed by Judas in front of a crowd of soldiers, in the foreground Malchus is having his ear cut off by Peter.
It was precipitated by an incident that took place in 1738 when Captain Robert Jenkins appeared before a committee of the House of Commons and exhibited what he alleged to be his own amputated ear, cut off in April 1731 in the West Indies by Spanish coast guards, who had boarded his ship, pillaged it, and then set it adrift.
That is how long it has taken her to come to terms with the atrocities committed against her face and body: part of an ear cut off, her mouth widened by a scar that exposes her broken teeth, her tongue cut out, her breasts and genitals mutilated.
