The jemadars, subedars, and havildars meted out more an ignominious punishment to those who refused to accept Islam, slitting off their ears and noses.
The Oscar for best-dressed at the Oscars, however, goes to Angelina Jolie, in a daring, strapless Versace gown of black velvet, with a bustle and an asymmetrical bodice that resembled tulip-petals, slit to show off her legs to die for.
Slice off her tongue and then slit through her throat".
"When we were deep into the orchard, I threw McClennan on his back, ripped his trousers and shorts off, slit them with the knife," the man before us says without a flicker of emotion.
They slit throats, slashed off limbs, smashed skulls.
When the skin is off, slit the belly meat from the crotch on up through, and part the ribcage through the breast plate on up to the neck.
The high street capsule she unveiled during London Fashion Week last month is billed as a range of pieces that Ri-Ri herself would wear, from casual jersey basics to denim cut-offs, slit skirts and a cutaway monokini.
Poison, hanging, slitting of the wrists?
Bösch sets the drama in a generalised present day — a tank rolls on and off stage as the armies gather, soldiers take selfies with their terrified prisoners, throats are viciously slit and Manrico heads off at the end of Di quella pira with a baseball bat-wielding gang of thugs.
She slit her wrists, ran off with a troubled boyfriend, dropped out of school and changed her name.
