Do not maim snakes because they are beneficial in keeping the rodent population under control. From LearnThat.org.
I destroy, crush or maim; I give nothing but take all. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
Are my foes able to maim my spirit as well as my body?. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Brothers, particularly the one who had helped maim her. From Wordnik.com. [The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel] Reference
"These are replicas of weapons that are used to maim and kill.". From Wordnik.com. [A Bunny Thing Happened ...] Reference
"Twenty men dead, many maim on Bridge of the Ten Thousand Ages.". From Wordnik.com. [Seven Maids of Far Cathay] Reference
Therefore it is not lawful for any other reason to maim a person. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Read not a line of it -- the omission will not maim our argument. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841] Reference
I should maim him as the only other means of making good my escape. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
They are more horrific because they are designed specifically to maim. From Wordnik.com. ['It Can Be Done'] Reference
They don't care how many men, women -- or children they'll kill or maim. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2007] Reference
"See that you don't kill anything -- or even maim it," advised his sister. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace] Reference
Objection 1: It would seem that in no case can it be lawful to maim anyone. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
A drunken vagabond cannot maim his wife but all England must know all about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Anti-personnel mines kill or maim 2,000 people a month, including many children. From Wordnik.com. [Buried Terror ..Auw-Stacy Sullivan In Sarajevo] Reference
Therefore neither is it lawful to maim anyone, except perhaps by public authority. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
You do not have the right to kill or maim someone you claim assaulted you an hour ago. From Wordnik.com. [No Tears For Lorena] Reference
Thou wilt do more than any other knight, and in thy strength ye may well maim yourself. '. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
The devices were packed with nails, intended to maim and kill as many people as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Flushed From The Woods] Reference
How many men it may kill, how many it may maim and what damage it will do cannot be estimated. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Allies at Verdun Or, Saving France from the Enemy] Reference
"He wasn't the type of person who was really out trying to maim anybody or hurt anybody," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Tatum Dead: Former Raider Dies At 61] Reference
This habit makes a single claim, it has one purpose, just one aim; to kill, to butcher and to maim!. From Wordnik.com. [Looking for a Sure Thing] Reference
Sly gets to maim, kill, take his clothes off and, in one of the movie's actually funny moments, knit. From Wordnik.com. [Altered States And Demoman] Reference
Collector-sahib with tales of a native rising, and call up our brothers of the police to kill and maim us?. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
Without any primaries to focus enemy fire, Perot is easily dodging charges that would maim any other candidate. From Wordnik.com. [Psssst! Perot's Got Pictures] Reference
An Arsenal of Anti-Personnel MinesBlast minesSmall, designed to maim soldiers and prevent farmers from sowing fields. From Wordnik.com. [Buried Terror ..Auw-Stacy Sullivan In Sarajevo] Reference
It is the nature of the borer to maim or kill the tree; it is for the interest of the owner that the tree should live. From Wordnik.com. [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference
What young Hannibal endures during the war is enough to psychologically maim any child, but Harris is never reductive. From Wordnik.com. [The Ravenous Doctor Is In. Again] Reference
Man has no better natural right to poison himself or his neighbor, than to maim, wound or kill himself or his neighbor. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
McConnell and company had one last chance to maim McCain-Feingold, an amendment for something called "nonseverability.". From Wordnik.com. [A Beltway Bungee Jump] Reference
Today, for some, it has become a death sentence, with so many competitors trying to literally injure and maim the other players. From Wordnik.com. [Cheney's Cheney Under Indictment] Reference
The news of this prize will make it grow and grow like a cancer or something, till it will hurt worse, maim, kill, when I fail at last. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference
Further, it seems to me, we may make another question, whether you are satisfied that their real intention was to kill or maim, or not?. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
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