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  • 'The Scourging Impurity' is brutality incarnate and the head-snapping tempo changes of a fantastic blast through 'Laceration' is the oral equivalent of watching Bambi be thrown head-first into a combine harvester.

    Metal Hammer 2009

  • Laceration, laceration,” probably applying it to his dream.

    The Brothers Karamazov 2003

  • Laceration of the skin and underlying tissue requires complete rest and careful removal of any particles, of dirt and gravel that may be present in the wound.

    Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

  • Laceration of the liver may result from external violence without leaving any outward sign of the injury; it is commonly fatal.

    Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

  • Laceration of skin interferes with the movement of the knee and the animal may be quite lame.

    Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

  • [311] Laceration was properly a term of surgery; hence the italics.

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • The word “lacerating,” which Madame Hohlakov had just uttered, almost made him start, because half waking up towards daybreak that night he had cried out “Laceration, laceration,” probably applying it to his dream.

    The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1851

  • [311] Laceration was properly a term of surgery; hence the italics.

    Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767

  • Matthew Sandford was one of the spectators watching as Kitts performed crazy tricks with crazier names like The Tangler, Quadruple Laceration and Iron Whip.

    MISSISSAUGA - Home 2010

  • Graco Recalls Strollers Due to Fingertip Amputation and Laceration Hazards Not content with trying to tell private health insurance companies what they can and can't do, the jackbooted thugs of the Obama Administration are now meddling in the most sacred and intimate relationship of all .. ...

    Blogrunner 2010

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