1 And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing about the Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim.
2 His own nature had revolted against the excess of anguish that had sought to maim and mar the perfection of its calm.
3 There were so many dead, so many wounded and maimed for life, so many widowed, so many orphaned.
4 All the men of that description, barring the badly maimed ones, have already got something to do.
5 It came to pass, that in the ambergris affair Stubb's after-oarsman chanced so to sprain his hand, as for a time to become quite maimed; and, temporarily, Pip was put into his place.
6 Indeed, many a maimed and feeble soldier was compelled to drag his exhausted limbs in the rear of the columns, for the want of the necessary means of conveyance in that wilderness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 7 And from this region of noises came the steady current of the maimed.
8 Stephen drew back his maimed and quivering right arm and held out his left hand.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 9 At his first violent sin he had felt a wave of vitality pass out of him and had feared to find his body or his soul maimed by the excess.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 10 Higg, the son of Snell, at length replied, "I am but a maimed man, but that I can at all stir or move was owing to her charitable assistance."
11 It is sometimes the custom when fast to a whale more than commonly powerful and alert, to seek to hamstring him, as it were, by sundering or maiming his gigantic tail-tendon.
12 The hunter, who had already abandoned his intention of maiming the runner, mused a moment, and then made a gesture, which instantly brought his two red companions to his side.
13 He was much too hurt in himself, the great shock of his maiming, to be easy and flippant.