Example Sentences

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And she never once thought of the wound to her heart; the fierce fire of vanity seemed to have cauterized it—if there was a wound.

From The Second Generation by Phillips, David Graham

Louis XIV. and Turenne have cauterized that beautiful land.

From The Red Inn by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott