disembowelling
- present participle of disembowel.
Example Sentences
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The ship was leisurely chained and cabled to the old dock, and then came the disembowelling.
From Prue and I by Curtis, George William
He looked over to Nap, who fiercely battled with a sofa cushion, and was now disembowelling it through a rent in the cover.
From Bunker Bean by Wilson, Harry Leon
On either hand, at every hundred yards, instead of the houseless, disembowelling paepaes of Nuka-hiva, populous houses turned out their inhabitants to cry “Kaoha!” to the passers-by.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
She was sitting there, pretending that she didn't know that she was very, very slowly and deliberately jerking out the very vitals of that pattern, in fact disembowelling it.
From The New Warden by Ritchie, Mrs. David G.
The customary device, where contemporaries are concerned, of disembowelling the victim's name, and leaving it a skeleton of consonants, is a formal concession which in effect concedes nothing.
From Angels & Ministers by Housman, Laurence
