Example Sentences

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He had decapitated his brassy on the occasion of his striking Dorsetshire instead of his ball, and he was slow in recovering from the complex emotions which such an episode induces.

From Love Among the Chickens by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Then we dumped in our few potatoes and a single guinea fowl that F. had decapitated earlier in the day.

From African Camp Fires by White, Stewart Edward