torn

• My trousers and belt were singed and torn, and the blood started from my side; but I bound my handkerchief over the wound, and in a little time got up and went back to my gun, and there I stayed till the fighting was done, and then I let them carry me below to the cockpit, for walk by myself I could not Some of our ships suffered dreadfully. —  The Grateful Indian And other Stories
• His jacket had been carried off; his shirt was torn, as if the savages had been about to take it off him when they were interrupted. —  In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting
• The Christians were torn, as usual, by mutual jealousies and animosities. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• It is only when the bag of membranes has been torn, and the mouth of the child is applied at or near the neck of the uterus, that this can take place. —  The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother
• Like "Prometheus Bound," chained to the rock, torn, her spirit remained unquelled. —  The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance

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