What is "headless"

Usage examples of "headless".

The frenzied animal continued its attack, sequentially shredding and avulsing all four extremities of the almost headless torso.

The falukah was tossed this way and that, as if caught in a simoon, and he was rolled hither and yon in the company of Chud, Abdullah, and the headless mullet.

Peering through the narrow slit between two hangings, he saw the headless yellow body with a scarlet cincture, which identified it as that of Yin Yin.

There were some of the people from the summer pictures, but there were also dromes and the headless horseman and the Bumble-Bee women.

My long-sword circled whirring through the air, and a great ape sprawled, headless, at the feet of the fainting girls.

In the situation we were in, which was one of total, complete and utter heat and boredom and wondering what manner of crawling scabby insect you were going to dine on next, the fact of four hundred headless Filipinos was a topic for pleasant clubhouse gossip, something to discuss briefly in mild awe and almost admiration for the ginks for at least having a sense of spectacle and to be grateful for in a way because it took our minds off our own problems.

In the main square of Larghetto a bus lay on its side, and headless statues stood over the empty fountains.

That night all but one of the nine men had their throats cut in their sleep and ended up the next day headless and laid out like pigs on mumu fires with yams and tubers.

The Penanggalan actually separates from its whole, female form into a motionless, headless, gutless body and flying head.

Despite the grisly horrors, including headless corpses and clanking chains and haunted crypts, with which she spiced her macabre tales, Pippin was of a sensible turn of mind, a fact that she secretly mourned.

The headless thing draped across the casket did not move, save to shrivel slightly, sagging down with a faint sound that might have been a moan of disappointment .

This is about some dame scewing doggie-style while drinking the blood of a headless man.

Lance Corporal Schultz only hesitated an instant when he saw the headless centaurs spearing the Skinks.

And hollow Ruin yawned behind: great sages bound in madness, And headless patriots, and pale youths who perished, unupbraiding, Gleamed in the night.

Curtis Weill parked the toothpick in the corner of his mouth and held up two slender headless nails, identical in size and length except one was brighter.