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Definition of Disembowels
1. disembowel [v] - See also: disembowel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disembowels
Literary usage of Disembowels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Student's Common-place Book: A Cyclopedia of Illustration and Fact by Henry J. Fox (1876)
"In all cases where the criminal disembowels himself of his own accord without
condemnation and without investigation, inasmuch as he is no longer able to ..."
2. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1896)
"... armed with hooked claws, the other has webbed toes, like those of a duck ;
with the latter it swims, with the former it seizes and disembowels fishes. ..."
3. Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1892)
"... and then unwittingly disembowels his own doctrine with the too sharp sword of
metaphysics, which all the time he thought he was avoiding, thus letting ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"When the lord has shorn the sheep, the priest comes and fairly disembowels it,
begging friar follows and gets what he can and then the pardoner. t bishop is ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"Then, before it has time to loosen its teeth from the tough morsel, she jerks it
clear out of the water, seizes it with her disengaged hand, disembowels it ..."