Example Sentences

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In that first half, we felt like we were gashing them with the run.

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2011

They came from the sisters and female relatives of Mahto-Tatonka, who were gashing their limbs with knives, and bewailing the death of Henry Chatillon's squaw.

From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Parkman, Francis