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Yet, though the corporeal hand was gone, a spiritual member remained; for, stretching forth the stump, Giles steadfastly averred that he felt an invisible thumb and fingers with as vivid a sensation as before the real ones were amputated.
They seem to care as little for mutilation as lobsters or lizards, which at least have the excuse that they grow new claws and new tails if they lose the old ones. Whilst this book was being prepared for the press a case was tried in the Courts, of a man who sued a railway company for damages because a train had run over him and amputated both his legs.
"June 23rd. In X . Morning worked in the theatre. Bandaged thirty. Operation 1 arm amputated. Learn that there has been a battle round the school-house at O where we first were. Wonderful weather. Spent some time in the park. Talked to M. there. Evening moved thirty versts to P . Much dust, very slow, owing to the Guards retreating at same time.
But it was equally certain they could not leave until the Admiral was fit to be moved. "Truly he is a saint," said one of the gentlemen, who had come down from the room where Coligny was lying. "He suffered atrociously in the hands of the surgeon, for he had come without his instruments, and amputated Coligny's fingers with a dagger so blunt that it was only on the third attempt that he succeeded.
"You must wait for me," Annie was saying further. "There is a poor fellow a patient of mine who is to have his arm amputated this morning, and I must be with him when it is done." "Oh dear!" cried May, completely taken aback, "that is dreadful. Will he die, Annie?
As I thrust him away his short legs, legs which might almost have been amputated, staggered under him. Meanwhile I reflected: "No, I was NOT wrong. He DID of set purpose throw the mop overboard. What a fellow!" A bell sounded from the engine-room. "Slow!" someone shouted with a cheerful hail.
The exact contents and character of that Gospel are not quite so clear, and its relation to the Synoptic Gospels, and especially to our third Synoptic, which bears the name of St. Luke, is the point that we have to determine. The Church writers, Irenaeus, Tertullian, and Epiphanius, without exception, describe Marcion's Gospel as a mutilated or amputated version of St. Luke.
Henry remembered having seen one boy return whose foot was frost-bitten and had to be amputated as the result of exposure at the farm. It was summer now, but ten months would carry him fully through the winter at the farm. The thoughts of a stay there was too much for him. Arising quickly he sprang up into the court house window. An officer rushed toward him to intercept him, but it was too late.
The lieutenant had been very meek, but now his face flushed, and he looked into the doctor's eyes. "I guess I won't have it amputated," he said. "Nonsense, man! Nonsense! Nonsense!" cried the doctor. "Come along, now. I won't amputate it. Come along. Don't be a baby."
The amputated limbs were then hung up upon the column by the hooks, and the heads were fixed to the spikes. There they remained a horrid spectacle, intended to strike terror into all beholders through February and March, as long as the weather continued cold enough to keep them frozen.
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