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Definition of Impalements
1. impalement [n] - See also: impalement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impalements
Literary usage of Impalements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Europe and Asia: Discussions of the Eastern Question in Travels Through by John S. Stuart-Glennie (1879)
"And when it became impossible to deny that, if not now impalements, other
sufficiently shocking atrocities were, ..."
2. Practical Heraldry: Or, an Epitome of English Armory, Showing how and by by Charles Worthy (1889)
"... —impalements — Quartered Coats when introduced—Arms of Man and Wife—Arms in
right of Wife— Escutcheon of Pretence — Smith impaled with Jones—Smith ..."
3. The Eastern Question: Its Facts & Fallacies by Malcolm MacColl (1877)
"Here were the Austrian Consul- General, the English Consul-General, and the French
Consul moving heaven and earth to prove that no impalements had taken ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1876)
"... the L rejecting much stronger evidence for impalements in Bosnia, demonstrate
tho strength of their prejudices rather than of their logic or fairness. ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1902)
"were the rule, when massacres were answered by ma sacres, impalements by impalements.
Sienkiewicz has E taste for knights and warriors as we should like ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1860)
"... inheritor had two coats by right of descent, they might bo coupled in impalements,
though the families so designated had never directly intermarried. ..."
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