Sentence examples for severed extremities from inspiring English sources
Glass assisted him on the pioneering "Cutting Device: Base Plate Measure" (1969), a long irregular stack of lead, wood, stone, and steel elements, with two neat parallel cuts and severed extremities dragged aside at odd angles.
Inevitably, an actual severed extremity turns up; alas, missing are fully fleshed characters, aside from Theroux himself, who makes a vivid cameo halfway through the book as a "smirking, intrusive, ungenerous, and insincere man".
(Evenson began that novel while he was still Mormon, then finished it as a voluntary excommunicant). In "Last Days" (2009)—an expansion of Evenson's 2003 novella "The Brotherhood of Mutilation"—a one-handed ex-private investigator named Kline infiltrates the ranks of a cult whose members believe that severing their own extremities brings them closer to God.
The first layer of muscles is divided at the margin of the retracted integument.... Once the artery is severed it must be ligated with silk prior to the amputation of the lower extremity.... .. Amid the singing of a spiritual in another part of the hospital, we hear the sound of sawing.
A possible development would be that the damaged neurons may not have been totally severed and the neurons recovered in the following months and years, earliest for the proximal portions of the lower extremity and latest for the ankle and foot function [ 13].
A severed head – his own.
Shrapnel severed Karim Hassan's finger.
Following that, India severed dialogue.
