Word: bleeds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four, was suddenly moved to a paroxysm of religious fervor while standing in his brother's sawmill. "If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off," cried Linton's thoughts. Later Linton explained: "So I cut it off and prayed to God not to let it bleed much. It didn't." Handless Linton did not state how his hand had offended...
Where the fangs enter, a sharp burning pain is immediately felt. It gets worse. The wounds bleed; the parts get blue and swell. Numbness sets in and spreads; vomiting begins; breathing becomes difficult; paralysis starts. The victim suffocates, dies. Each year some 5,000 such tortured deaths occur in India. In the U. S. last year there were 27 reported. There might have been more, for at least 507 persons here were bitten by rattlers, moccasins, copperheads, massasaugas and corals. They are the only poisonous snakes in Canada and the U. S. More of the bitten might have died...
...tissue above the soft palate and back of the nasal passages. They can be felt by sticking the forefinger into the adenoidal individual's mouth and hooking the first phalanx of the finger over his soft palate. The finger will come out covered with blood, for the adenoids bleed very easily...
...deer to do. A bullet clipping a deer at the base of the horns or just above the spine will often stun the animal for some time. Experienced deerslayers invariably sever their kill's jugular vein immediately upon reaching it, in the interests of safety, mercy, and to bleed the meat while it is still warm...
...question, one Jack Sharkey, had just demonstrated in a bloody bout in Brooklyn his supremacy against black Harry Wills, once known as "The Brown Panther," and long the Nemesis of Jack Dempsey. All through the fight Sharkey chopped and hacked at Wills, closed his eye, made his mouth bleed; all through the fight the referee skipped between the two saying, "Don't do that; don't do that." Wills was the offender; in every break he swung over illicit punches; he hit backhanded; he butted Sharkey with his hard, black head. Perhaps Wills only did these things from...