Severed in A Sentence

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    A seignory appendant passes with the grant of the manor; a seignory in gross - that is, a seignory which has been severed from the demesne lands of the manor to which it was originally appendant - must be specially conveyed by deed of grant.

    2

    A vasectomy is a surgical procedure in which the vasa deferentia of a man are severed and sealed in a manner to prevent sperm from entering the ejaculate.

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    About 60m behind the keel at the stern end, the ship is completely severed in half.

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    After removal from the machine, the tumbler is severed from the blowing iron, and its fractured edge is trimmed.

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    After the great ice cap had thawed and a period of general desiccation set in, the Caspian began to shrink in area, and simultaneously its connexions with the Black Sea and the Sea of Aral were severed.

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    Again and again the relations between the Spartans and the Achaean League formed the occasion of discussions in the Roman senate or of the despatch of Roman embassies to Greece, but no decisive intervention took place until a fresh dispute about the position of Sparta in the league led to a decision of the Romans that Sparta, Corinth, Argos, Arcadian Orchomenus and Heraclea on Oeta should be severed from it.

    7

    All the ties of caste, class, corporation and family were severed; the jealous despotism of Louis XIV.

    8

    All these works are later than the altarpiece which Angelico painted (as before mentioned) for the choir connected with this convent, and which is now in the academy of Florence; it represents the Virgin with Saints Cosmas and Damian (the patrons of the Medici family), Dominic, Peter, Francis, Mark, John Evangelist and Stephen; the pediment illustrated the lives of Cosmas and Damian, but it has long been severed from the main subject.

    9

    Also reputed to have had dealings with the ' cult of the severed head '.

    10

    Although Judah was always closely connected with the south, these " southern " features (once clearly more extensive and complete) are found in the Deuteronomic and priestly compilations, and their presence in the historical records can hardly be severed from the prominence of " southern " families in the vicinity of Jerusalem, some time after the fall of Jerusalem.

    11

    Amputations may be partial (some tissue connects the amputated part to the body) or complete (the amputated part is completely severed from the body).

    12

    Ancient oriental costume then cannot be severed from the history and development of thought.

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    And in reality many pieces of the long suras have to be severed out as originally independent; even in the short ones parts are often found which cannot have been there at first.

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    As a disagreement soon arose between the people of Newark and those of " the mountain" on questions of church administration, the latter in 1718 severed their connexion with the church at Newark and formed an independent congregation, the" Mountain Society."

    15

    At the beginning of July the Russians, under Kamenskiy, were before Shumla; and a few days later the grand vizier and his army, their communications with the capital severed, were surrounded in the fortress.

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    Before passing on to a summary of the deistic position, it is necessary to say something of the views of Conyers Middleton, who, though he never actually severed himself from orthodoxy, yet advanced theories closely analogous to those of the deists.

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    Between the quaestor and his superior a close personal relation, analogous to that between a son and his father, existed, and was not severed when their official connexion ceased.

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    Blood was everywhere, and Katie peeled off her sweater to wrap around Iliana.s severed wrist.

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    But during one battle, the One Ring was severed from Sauron's hand.

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    But on the other hand the adjacent island of Ceylon has been administratively severed and placed under the Colonial Office.

    21

    But there would have been a shorter severed piece, wouldn't there?

    22

    By reason of this rejection the relations of North Carolina with the other states were severed upon the dissolution of the Confederation, and it took no part in the first election or in the organization of the new government.

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    By the subsequent Vesteras Ordinance the Swedish Church was absolutely severed from Rome.

    24

    Children learn how to make black eyes, bruises, burns and even partially severed limbs !

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    Children learn how to make black eyes, bruises, burns and even partially severed limbs!

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    Civil Wan He lost the island, which gave itself to Aragon; and of Gue!phs thus the kingdom of Sicily was severed from that of anj Naples, the dynasty in the one being Spanish and Ghibelline, in the other French and Guelph.

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    Civilized Indians who have severed their tribal relations two years before an election are entitled to vote.

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    Classes previously degraded were enfranchised, and the alliance between two essentially corrupt systems of government was severed.

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    Consider penciling black stitches from one side of your jaw to the other for a creepy severed look, or draw cracks on the forehead to create the appearance of a cracking skull.

    30

    Consider picking up items like vampire coffins, severed heads and other body parts, frightening masks, witch's cauldrons and more.

    31

    Conventional harrows were ineffective on the rough terrain but harnessing Doug Joiner's horses to drag a severed hawthorn bush worked.

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    Dean wished he'd taken time to dress more warmly as he hurried down the penstock path toward where Shipton's severed line had been tethered.

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    During these years of active public life, his interest in Greek history and philosophy had increased, and after a trip to Italy in 1842, he severed his connexion with the bank and devoted himself to literature.

    34

    Early in the raid several telephone exchanges were damaged, and cables nearly severed at points where they passed under the River Hull.

    35

    Education Act of 1872 severed the ancient tie connecting church and school together, and created a school board having charge of the education of each parish.

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    Encouraged by her, Hanover and Saxony had severed themselves from the Union, and Saxony, WUrttemberg and Bavaria arrived at an understanding as to a wholly new constitution.

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    Even if the contract administration element was severed from the rest, again, the scale of fees applied.

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    Every campaign, he gave it to her for safekeeping, in case the weapon of an enemy severed the leather cord and it was lost.

    39

    Fallen angels usually have a darker expression on their face, and they are often depicted with a severed or broken wing to show their lowered status.Who wears a fallen angel tattoo?

    40

    Family insults may be especially hurtful in the context of children's homes as family relationships were often strained, uncertain and sometimes severed.

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    Finally Christian III., an ardent Lutheran, ascended the throne in 1536; with the sanction of the diet he severed, in 1537, all connexion with the pope, introducing the Lutheran system of Church government and accepting the Augsburg Confession.

    42

    Finally, in 1319, the severed portions of Sweden were once more reunited.

    43

    First aid or emergency care given immediately after the amputation has a critical impact on both the physicians' ability to salvage and reattach the severed part(s) and the patient's ability to regain feeling and function.

    44

    First, there is the severed artery in his wrist.

    45

    For a time he co-operated with P. Clodius Pulcher, probably out of hostility to Cicero, who had caused Lentulus Sura to be put to death as a Catilinarian; the connexion was severed by a disagreement arising from his relations with Clodius's wife, Fulvia.

    46

    From the severed parts, which were thrown onto land, came the Gigantes, Erinyes and Meliae.

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    Furthermore, they are here severed from the principal lobes and connected with them by one or more rather thick strings of nerve-fibres.

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    Had it not been for the fact that the tree was almost completely severed from its trunk and had so much pressure on it from the opposite side, it would probably have been an impossible feat.

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    Halloween Ideas isn't all about crafts, but it does have some fun ideas for making your holiday a little scarier, from decorating with pumpkins to serving ice shaped like severed hands.

    50

    Having severed the body of the vase from the blowing iron, he heated and closed the fractured base, whilst holding the vase by means of the rod fixed in the neck.

    51

    He did so and threw the severed member into the sea.

    52

    He was with her physically and attached emotionally, yet his thoughts were severed.

    53

    How had he not severed an artery or killed her with those four inch incisors?

    54

    However, Aphrodite is also given as offspring of the sea and Uranus's severed member.

    55

    Huxley, in his article on this subject in the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, for applying the name Amphibia to those lung-breathing, pentadactyle vertebrates which had been first severed from the Linnaean Amphibia by Alexandre Brongniart, under the name of Batrachia, have not met with universal acceptance.

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    I guess that's the punishment for our roles in the Schism – being pushed aside and forced to watch, Eden said, referring to the war that severed the two realms completely from one another.

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    I guess that's the punishment for our roles in the Schism – being pushed aside and forced to watch, Eden said, referring to the war that severed the two realms completely from one another.

    58

    I suffered multiple injuries in the crash, the most long-term of which was a severed right ankle.

    59

    If the parents give up their rights permanently, or their rights to their child are severed by the court, the foster family may adopt the foster child or the child may be placed for adoption by strangers.

    60

    If the sensory nerves of the extensor muscle be severed, the "jerk" is lost.

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    If there be a loss of tissue brought about by severe in j ury to the skin and the deeper tissues, there is usually an extravasation of blood from the severed vessels.

    62

    If they spring from a thick root it is not to be wantonly severed, but the soil should be removed and the sucker taken off by cutting away a clean slice of the root, which will then heal and sustain no harm.

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    In 1 770 he severed his connexion with his orthodox c04eligionists by his critical commentary on the ill oreh Nebuhim of Maimonides, and devoted himself to the study of philosophy on the lines of Wolff and Moses Mendelssohn.

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    In 1681 he finally severed his French connexions, and returned to Holland.

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    In 1849 he severed his connexion with politics and retired to the mission station at Hankey, Cape Colony, where he died on the 27th of August 1851.

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    In 1857 he severed his connexion with the London Missionary Society, with whom, however, he always remained on the best of terms, and in February 1858 he accepted the appointment of "Her Majesty's consul at Quilimane for the eastern coast and the independent districts in the interior, and commander of an expedition for exploring eastern and central Africa."

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    In April he severed all connexion with the paper because of its support of the League of Nations which he opposed.

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    In December 1906 the control of Swaziland was severed from the governorship of the Transvaal and transferred to the High Commissioner for South Africa, and in March 1907 a resident commissioner was appointed.

    69

    In London to film an ad campaign, The Hoff severed a tendon on shards from a bathroom shelf he accidentally smashed.

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    In other places the name of the child's god was declared when the umbilical cord was severed.

    71

    In prenatal surgery for TRAP sequence, the connections between the twins are severed.

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    In such an event, a Cestode cannot replace the injured or severed portion.

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    In the earlier part of the Pleistocene period, England and Ireland were still incompletely severed, and the combined activity of certain extinct rivers and the sea had not yet cut through the land connexion with the continent.

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    In the same year he severed his active connexion with St Bernard's.

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    In the severed axon the degeneration is first evident in a breaking down of the naked nerve filaments of the motor end plate.

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    In the western provinces, which had been wholly severed from the empire before the publication of the Basilica, the law as settled by Justinian held its ground; but copies of the Corpus Juris were extremely rare, nor did the study of it revive until the end of the 1 ith century.

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    It is, however, very irregular in form, entirely surrounding parts of Brunswick and the Thuringian states, and itself possessing several exclaves, while the northern portion is almost severed from the southern by the duchy of Anhalt.

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    It seemed almost as if his wits were sharpened into a keener edge by his very difficulties; but since he condemned on principle every war which was not strictly defensive, and it had fallen to his lot to guide a comparatively small power, he always preferred the way of negotiation, even sometimes where the diplomatic tangle would perhaps best have been severed boldly by the sword.

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    It was a severed hand, a woman.s hand by its small size.

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    It'll be a long damn time before that bastard lays a finger on this gal without getting even more of his body parts severed!

    81

    It's chock full of blood (which you use to power up your attributes or regain health), talking severed heads, and weird S&M informants that follow you throughout the acid trip-induced story line.

    82

    Layering consists simply in bending down a branch and keeping it in contact with or buried to a small depth in the soil until roots are formed; the connexion with the parent plant may then be severed.

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    Maybe some miner lost his finger and when they rushed him to a doctor the severed piece was lost.

    84

    McCallister looked through the window to where the Bell rope had been neatly severed thirty feet above the playground.

    85

    Miles ought to be renamed Whispering Death, a tantalizing vision of severed vocal cords and whiplash obscenities.

    86

    Myth comes in when the Maoris represent Rangi and Papa, Heaven and Earth, as two vast beings, male and female, united in a secular embrace, and finally severed by their children, among whom Tane Mahuta takes the part of Cronus in the Greek myth.

    87

    New Orleans, next astern in the US line, was hit by a torpedo which severed her bow.

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    No doubt there is much that is purely artificial and untrustworthy in the late (post-exilic) representations of these divisions, but it is almost incredible that the historical foundation for their early career is severed from the written sources by centuries of warfare, immigration and other disturbing factors.

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    No one had a suggestion for the next step, but Fred was determined to continue to research the ownership of the severed digit.

    90

    No refund is payable if the produce was severed before the accident, unless the lessor was entitled to a portion of it, when he must bear his share of the loss, provided the lessee was not in morel as regards the delivery of the lessor's portion.

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    No woman had given birth in many sun-cycles, because the planet's spirit was severed without the dhjan and the nishani.

    92

    Not strictly true, we aren't going to send you a cardboard box of severed limbs.

    93

    Now that we've severed that umbilical cord, why don't I show you around the woods a little?

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    Offended, however, by Bedford's refusal to give him a high command, he severed his connexion with the English, and in March 142 5 accepted the constable's sword from King Charles VII.

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    On other occasions also Vamacharis commonly offer animal sacrifices, usually one or more kids; the head of the victim, which has to be severed by a single stroke, being always placed in front of the image of the goddess as a blood-offering (bali), with an earthen lamp fed with ghee burning above it, whilst the flesh is cooked and served to the guests attending the ceremony, except that of buffaloes, which is given to the low-caste musicians who perform during the service.

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    On the east coast lies the peculiarly-shaped Maria Island, almost severed by deep indentations on the east and west.

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    On the other hand, in some neurons, after severance of the axon from the rest of the cell (spinal motor cell), the whole nerve cell as well as the severed axon degenerates, and may eventually die and be removed.

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    On the tree being lifted from its hole the roots should be examined, and all which have been severed roughly with the spade should have the ends cut smooth with the knife to facilitate the emission of fibres.

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    On the west of the northern part of the English kingdom of Bernicia, severed from that by the Forest of Ettrick, and perhaps by the mysterious work of which traces remain in the " Catrail," was the Brython or Welsh kingdom of Strathclyde, which then included the territory and population, later anglicized, of Renfrewshire, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, Dumfriesshire, and, south of the historic border, Cumberland and Westmoreland to the Derwent.

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    Once cut, the farmer applies wax over the severed area to prevent disease such as fungus and mildew.

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    Once the bond between the half-breed and its human re-emerged a mere seven days after it was severed, Rhyn could channel his power again.  Death was waiting for that day, and Darkyn had to beat her at her game.

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    Out of the vague and limitless body there sprung a central mass, - this earth of ours, cylindrical in shape, poised equidistant from surrounding orbs of fire, which had originally clung to it like the bark round a tree, until their continuity was severed, and they parted into several wheelshaped and fire-filled bubbles of air.

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    Primarily, it was Jerome Shipton's severed climbing rope that remained a knotty question that wouldn't go away.

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    Railways and material were destroyed, the country cleared of supplies, and the Confederate government severed from its western states.

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    Reason was, for Kant, an organic whole; the speculative and moral aspects are never severed; and the solution of problems which appear at first sight to belong solely to the region of speculative thought may be found ultimately to depend upon certain characteristics of our nature as practical.

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    Rhodes, severed by its own act from the Athenian Confederacy, had since 355 been virtually subject to Mausolus, prince (Svveurrrls) of Caria, himself a tributary of Persia.

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    Severed nerves, particularly avulsion injuries in which the nerve is severed at the root, have poorer prognoses.

    108

    Severed the routes into and out of the kingdom?

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    She easily severed the chains holding her other arm and caught him by the neck.

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    She expected Darkyn to have severed her ability to leave.

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    She had severed a principal vein in her neck with her husband 's razor, which was lying by her side.

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    She had severed a principal vein in her neck with her husband's razor, which was lying by her side.

    113

    She hadn't planned on jumping off her building, but the events of this night made the idea more appealing than having her head severed from her body or ending up a pile of bones in a bathtub.

    114

    She used wax to bind the partially severed ends together, just enough that a cursory glance wouldn't disclose what she'd done.

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    So Peter also seemed to have thought, for though Mons was decapitated and his severed head, preserved in spirits, was placed in the apartments of the empress, she did not lose Peter's favour, attended him during his last illness, and closed his eyes when he expired (February 28, 1725).

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    Some of them have an unquestionable resemblance to the pies, if the group now known by that name can be satisfactorily severed from the true Corvinae.

    117

    Such favours brought down the fury of Mme de Montespan's jealousy, and Mme de Maintenon's position was almost unendurable, until, in 1680, the king severed their connexion by making the latter second lady in waiting to the dauphiness, and soon after Mme de Montespan left the court.

    118

    The album was a flop and Warner severed their relationship with Raitt for good.

    119

    The bowl is now severed from its blowing iron and the unfinished wine-glass is supported by its foot, which is attached to the end of a working rod by a metal clip or by a seal of glass.

    120

    The bowl is severed from the blowing iron, and the wine-glass is sent to the annealing oven with a bowl, longer than that of the finished glass, and with a rough fractured edge.

    121

    The entitlement will not be severed from occupation of each Lot.

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    The first is contained in a fragment of a cosmogony in Berossus, now confirmed in the main by the sixth tablet of the Creation epic. It represents the creation of man as due to one of the inferior gods who (at Bel's command) mingled with clay the blood which flowed from the severed head of Bel (see Cosmogony)..

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    The first volume of a Histoire naturelle des perroquets, a companion work by the same author, appeared in the same year, and is truly a monograph, since the parrots constitute a family of birds so naturally severed from all others that there has rarely been anything else confounded with them.

    124

    The girder held its position with both joints severed, proving that, as should be the case, there was no stress in the boom where the bending moment changes sign.

    125

    The Highlands are separated into two completely disconnected and in some respects contrasted regions by the depression of the Great Glen, extending from Loch Linnhe to Inverness, by which the ancient plateau was severed.

    126

    The Hungarians, severed from their kindred and their rulers, migrated to the Carpathians, whilst Oleg, the Russ prince of Kiev, passed through the Slav tribes of the Dnieper basin with the cry "Pay nothing to the Khazars" (884).

    127

    The Istro-Rumanian forms, as it were, a link - now completely severed - between the Romance of the Balkans and/the Romance of the West.

    128

    The jubilee showed conclusively that, whatever politicians might say, the ties of blood and kinship, which united the two peoples, were too close to be severed by either for some trifling cause; that the wisest heads in both nations were aware of the advantages which must arise from the closer union of the Anglo-Saxon races; and that the true interests of both countries lay in their mutual friendship. A war in which the United States was subsequently engaged with Spain cemented this feeling.

    129

    The Judaean narratives do not allow us to fill the gap or to determine whether Judaean policy under the regent Jehoiada would be friendly or hostile to Israel, or whether Judaean nobles may have severed the earlier bond of union.

    130

    The moment his attention turned to the woman, Megan felt as if someone had severed one of her limbs.

    131

    The new law officer defended his conduct with the assertion that his alliance in politics had been with Mr George Grenville, and that the connexion had been severed on his death.

    132

    The northern extremity of New Guinea is all but severed from the mainland by the deep MacCluer Inlet, running eastwards towards Geelvink Bay which deeply indents the northern coast.

    133

    The outer bark of each being removed, the two shoots are kept in contact by ligature until union is established, when the scion is completely severed from its original attachments.

    134

    The poor little thing had suffered a broken leg and a severed tail, and was taken in at Kirkham Kattery Rescue.

    135

    The protest which the moderator had read before leaving the assembly had been left on the table; and an act of separation and deed of demission were received from the ministers of the newly formed Free Church, who were now declared to have severed their connexion with the Church of Scotland.

    136

    The province of Kandahar was severed from the Kabul dominion; and the sirdar Shere Ali Khan, a member of the Barakzai family, was installed by the British representative as its independent ruler.

    137

    The revolution of 1848 severed his connexion with France, and he remained at Rome and became minister of the interior under Pius IX.

    138

    The severed part retains its muscular irritability for a short time, wriggling as if it were a living creature.

    139

    The sheets were severed after printing, brought up by tapes, and carried down to a sheet flyer, which moved backwards and forwards, and the sheets were alternately " flown " into the hands of two boys seated opposite each other on either side of the flyers.

    140

    The sheets were severed by knives placed on the cylinders, and when cut were carried by grippers and tapes; and delivery was made by means of automatic metal fingers fixed upon endless belts at such distances apart as to seize each sheet in succession as it left the last printing cylinder.

    141

    The simplicity of the legislation (traditionally associated with Moab and Sinai and with Kadesh in South Palestine), the humanitarian and reforming spirit, the condemnation of abuses and customs are features which, in view of the background and scope of Deuteronomy, can hardly be severed from the internal events which connect Palestine of the Assyrian supremacy with the time of Nehemiah.'

    142

    The spinal cord does not have to be severed in order for a loss of function to occur.

    143

    The Tab World - Some of the most popular bass tabs at The Tab World include Cradle, Severed and Nothing to Gein.

    144

    The temple stands in the midst of what is called the gizrah or space severed off.

    145

    The Thebans at first accepted the terms, but on the day after, realizing that they were thus balked of their pan-Boeotian ambition, withdrew and finally severed themselves from the league.

    146

    The ties which bound him to England were now severed, and his health was broken to such a discouraging degree that he determined to remove to another hemisphere.

    147

    The two sections of the Hebrews who had had so much in common were scarcely severed by a border-line only a few miles to the north of Jerusalem.

    148

    The unfortunate fanatics were hunted down and massacred to the last man, and thereby the ties that bound the Abbasids to the ultra-Shiites were severed.

    149

    The woman was unconscious, her severed wrist wrapped in Katie.s sweater.

    150

    Then there was the Schism and an era of disaster and grief, where his world collided with—then severed from—the human one, centuries where he was forced into the underground world as a prostitute, a beggar, a thief.

    151

    There are multiple transcriptions for -1, A Key to Nothing, All That You Are, Prod, Severed and many more.

    152

    There was a reason he'd severed his connection to his emotions all those years ago.

    153

    These communications had been severed on the Ottoman Empire throwing its lot in with the Central Powers three months after the commencement of the struggle.

    154

    These include St Simon holding a glass reliquary containing a severed arm.

    155

    These situations cannot be severed from what is known elsewhere of the Deuteronomic teaching, of the reform ascribed to Josiah, or of the principle inculcated by Ezekiel (see § r [b]).

    156

    They were asserted in an extreme form in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (5790),, Cwhich almost severed connexion between France and the papacy.

    157

    This campaign was to involve walking children with severed limbs down the street some of Americas biggest diamond retail areas.

    158

    This excited vehement opposition among the Germans, on the ground that Holstein, although subject to the king of Denmark, was a member of the German confederation, and that in virtue of ancient treaties it could not be severed from Schleswig.

    159

    This is the explanation of the repair of nerve trunks that have been severed, with consequent degeneration of the peripheral nerve fibres.

    160

    This meant that parts severed from a body during the course of death or prior to death were not covered by the regulation.

    161

    This merchant sells disturbing party supplies, including severed limbs, a bowl of fingers, bats, fog machines, bloody tablecloths and lots more.

    162

    This now stretched from Lubeck to the Pyrenees, from Brest to Rome; while another arm (only nominally severed from the empire by the Napoleonic kingdom of Italy) extended down the eastern shore of the Adriatic to Ragusa and Cattaro, threatening the Turkish empire with schemes of partition always imminent but never achieved.

    163

    Thus the Corporation became its own Lord of the Manor and the Ramsden connection with Huddersfield, was finally severed.

    164

    Towards the end of the 11th century, when the tide of Norman invasion swept upwards along the Wye valley, the district became a lordship marcher annexed to that of Brecknock, but was again severed from it on the death of William de Breos, when his daughter Matilda brought it to her husband, Roger Mortimer of Wigmore.

    165

    Unfortunately, Izzy could not handle this, and Ben severed ties with his son to save his marriage.

    166

    Uttoxeter, with the rest of the honour of Tutbury, escheated to the Crown in 1266 owing to the complicity of Robert Ferrers in the barons' rebellion; it was regranted to Edmund Crouchback, ancestor of the dukes of Lancaster, under whom it became part of the duchy of Lancaster, from which it was not severed until 1625.

    167

    Virgo family roots run deep, and natives of this sign will do everything in their power to prevent them from being severed.

    168

    Were it in the hands of an enemy the Chinese colonies in Central Asia would be completely severed from the mother country, hence the eagerness evinced by the government throughout all history to retain possession of the region.

    169

    When the patient and the amputated part(s) reach the hospital, a physician will assess the probability that the severed tissue can be successfully reattached (called replantation).

    170

    When, for instance, the axons of the ganglion cells of the retina are severed by section of the optic nerve, and thus their influence upon the nerve cells of the visual cerebral centres is set aside, the nerve cells of those centres undergo secondary atrophy (Gadden's atrophy).

    171

    While the puncturing or eruption of the water or inserts is unlikely, it is possible that leakage can occur if the lining is severed with a sharp object or pressure is applied to the point of bursting.

    172

    William was grand duke of Luxemburg by a personal title, and his death severed the dynastic relation between the kingdom of the Netherlands and the grand duchy.

    173

    Within hours of starting work his head was almost severed by the grab of a crane.