Do not maim snakes because they are beneficial in keeping the rodent population under control. From LearnThat.org.
Are my foes able to maim my spirit as well as my body?. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
I destroy, crush or maim; I give nothing but take all. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] 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
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
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
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
The devices were packed with nails, intended to maim and kill as many people as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Flushed From The Woods] 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
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
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
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
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
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
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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