Example Sentences

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“The chirurgic art!” interrupted the doctor, with an air of contemptuous disgust.

From Romola by Eliot, George

Brannau and Burchhausen boasted each of a chirurgic wonder, but Stroer misdoubted or defied their skill.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829 by Various

It would speak badly for the chirurgic skill of the seventeenth century if they did.

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.