embowed

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The same faculty indeed appears in the flesh of eels, which even when skinned and embowelled, and cut into pieces, are still seen to move.

From The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various

The earth entombs emblems of greatness, of riches, and of man's vain-glorious possessions; buildings have been reared by successive generations on mounds which embowelled the ruined mansions of predecessors.

From Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society by Crooke, William

If it were embowelled unto you, ye would not believe that such a way were so contradictory to the gospel.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

The caves were all embowelled in the Surreyside formation; the soil was all betrodden by the light pump of T. P. Cooke.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

I have caused it to be embowelled, and deposited in a vault, till I have orders from England.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Richardson, Samuel