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Definition of Dislimbed
1. dislimb [v] - See also: dislimb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dislimbed
Literary usage of Dislimbed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Through the Dark Continent: Or, The Sources of the Nile Around the Great by Henry Morton Stanley (1879)
"... and 10 feet from it, in a furrow or water channel, the bodies of three men
and a woman, one of them dislimbed. We arrived before the village. ..."
2. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1855)
"... the covering of his own most sacred text — an hardy exploit and not much unlike
the raising from the dead the dislimbed ..."
3. The Portfolio: Monographs on Artistic Subjects by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1895)
"From an old print. ings of the chalk, the gray haze "dislimbed" and revealed the
structure of the rocks and precipice. At sunset the brilliant sand- cliffs ..."
4. French Intervention in America; Or, A Review of La France, Le Mexique, Et by Vine Wright Kingsley (1863)
"... and we were ill prepared to learn that her influence was to be thrown into
the scale of rebellious power—a power dislimbed from and belonging to our ..."
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