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Updated: May 7, 2025
Originally it sanctioned only two kinds of punishment, death and flogging, but others were in use, and the barbarous ling ch'ih, 'lingering death' or 'slicing to pieces, invented about A.D. 1000 and abolished in 1905, was inflicted for high treason, parricide, on women who killed their husbands, and murderers of three persons of one family.
The zest for it sparkled in his quick eyes as he rode briskly through the devious forest ways. Had Galors or any other dark-entry man met him now and chanced a combat, he would have bad it with a will, but he would have got off with a rough tumble and sting or two from the flat of the sword. The youth was too pleased with himself for killing or slicing. However, there was nobody to fight.
Facing it is the quaint old country church where the Father of our Country has attended many services, and in which my parents were married. A straight drive of one hundred and thirty yards will carry the lane and insure a good lie, but a sliced ball is likely to go through a window of the church. However, the church is no longer used, and besides there is no excuse for slicing a ball.
They advanced at the double, laying a continuous barrage before them as they ran, closing with the enemy in great leaps, cutting, thrusting and slicing with those terrible double-ended weapons in a vicious efficiency against which the Hans with their swords, knives and spears were utterly helpless. And so my prediction that the war would develop hand-to-hand fighting was verified at the outset.
She had buttered and sliced bread until her back ached, and she cast many angry glances at her ruddy-faced father tranquilly slicing ham in the pantry. "There are times when Papa is a real nuisance," she thought angrily. While Mrs. Fern pointed out piles of plates on the pantry shelf to a maid, her husband told her the history of the morning.
"I 'spect I'm most gladder to see you than I ever was before," said Pansy, with a devoted smile, as she took her seat near Kittie. "Why, what are you sitting there for? Here I am," said Kat, who sat opposite slicing apples. "I thought you always knew me."
But it has shown that slicing away the anterior and upper parts of the brain of an animal produces a state of partial stupor a loss of its intelligence and mental characteristics, without producing any great detriment to its muscular and physiological functions; while injuries inflicted upon the basilar parts of the brain produce evident derangements of muscular action, and are more dangerous to life.
Such a tree, having been estimated and adjudged fit for sale, the lumberman would make a blaze with a small ax, by slicing off a portion of bark about eight inches long, then turning the head of the ax, whereon was "U. S." in raised letters, he would whack the blaze, making a mark which was unchangeable. No other trees than those so marked might be cut.
In going into action he could, after taking up his position, simply stoop until the rim of the umbra-shield rested on the ground, or else slip off the shoulder straps, and stand there, quite safe from the disintegrator ray, and work his gun. But again, I could not see what was to prevent the Hans from slicing underneath it, instead of directly at it, with their rays.
He had early learned that it was wise to get along well with sea-cooks, since sea-cocks were notoriously given to going suddenly lunatic and slicing and hacking up their shipmates with butcher knives and meat cleavers on the slightest remembered provocation. Besides, there was an equally good bunk all the way across the width of the steerage from the Chinaman's.
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