Example Sentences

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A false step, a bit of crumbling rock, a slip of the hand would have destroyed our hopes, and perhaps have maimed me for life, if not killed me.

From Roger Trewinion by King, Gunning

A good many artists have maimed or ruined themselves by pretending that, besides the distinction between good art and bad, there is a distinction between aristocratic art and plebeian.

From Art by Bell, Clive

They have distorted it; have maimed it; have devitalized it at essential points.

From Religious Perplexities by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)

It was an old snow, moreover, thickly crusted, and would have maimed our horses in a few minutes.

From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne

On which absurdity Brooke shrewdly remarks—“As if healing the sores would have maimed the body.”

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac