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Usage examples of scalped.

The last expressman bearing a letter addressed to Clinch had ridden out in August, only to fall not far from Fort Brooke: shot, scalped, and disemboweled, he was.

As the Indians hacked and scalped their way through the growing pile of bodies, Maria knew that the heavens were closed, that God slept on this February night.

The Son of Anak, otherwise Rufus the Blue-Eyed, and also plebeianly known as Tots, rioted with him from brier-rose path to farthest orchard, scalped him in the haymow with barbaric yells, and once, with pharisaic zeal, was near to crucifying him under the attic roof beams.

Men had been shot and scalped in the fields, houses were burning, women and children were captives for a fate that no one could foretell.

They were the surviving prisoners, and the black caps meant that they were to be killed and scalped on the morrow.

There must have been at least thirty of the wolves, and the five figures that they saw reclining, silent and motionless, against the unburned portion of the house might well have been those of the dead and scalped, whom they had found in such numbers everywhere.

The men whose brethren were scalped or burned alive at Wyoming will not now spare the town of those who did it.

Pretty soon he would be hundreds and hundreds of miles away on the great plains and deserts, and among the mountains of the Far West, and would see buffaloes and Indians, and prairie dogs, and antelopes, and have all kinds of adventures, and may be get hanged or scalped, and have ever such a fine time, and write home and tell us all about it, and be a hero.

Amazon scalped them all, and the three made their way back to the settlements, with the trophies of their exploit.

A splash, a gleam of silverand suddenly a volleyballer on South Beach is scalped, mid-spike.

I suppose I wanted to look him in the eye and learn if he'd scalped Maxine's mother.

When the fog lifted, with no one scalped and no Comanches to be seen, the local blacksmith found the senator, still fainted, and, by that time, bled white.

Our hero Crockett, who had so valiantly smitten the dissevered heads of the two Creeks who had been so treacherously murdered, confesses that the revolting spectacle of the whites, scalped and half devoured, caused him to shudder.

Imagine coming back here after the highlands of Thibet, where you'ld nearly got drowned and scalped and had made love to the daughter of an Afghan chief…who had red lips smeared with loukoumi so that the sweet taste stayed in your mouth.

Dust stanched the wet and naked heads of the scalped who with the fringe of hair below their wounds and tonsured to the bone now lay like maimed and naked monks in the bloodslaked dust and everywhere the dying groaned and gibbered and horses lay screaming.