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I have caused it to be embowelled, and deposited in a vault, till I have orders from England.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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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.
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The caves were all embowelled in the Surreyside formation; the soil was all betrodden by the light pump of T.P. Cooke.
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Teares flowed aboundantly from her faire eies, and like tempestuous windes embowelled in the earth, so did vehement sighes breake mainly from her heart, and after a tedious time of silence, she spake in this manner.
The Decameron 2004
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Diving beneath the surface of the earth into the “embowelled caverns,” light wakens the precious stones:
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968
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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.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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The wealth that is embowelled in the Earth is guarded by the deities called the Ajaikapats and the Ahivradnas, and also by Kuvera.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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They trust but never love us solidly embowelled drums of wisdom.
Jimgrim Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1931
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In England we have not yet been completely embowelled of our natural entrails; we still feel within us, and we cherish and cultivate, those inbred sentiments which are the faithful guardians, the active monitors of our duty, the true supporters of all liberal and manly morals.
Paras. 125-149 1909
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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.
IV. Of the Motion of the Heart and Its Auricles, as Seen in the Bodies of Living Animals 1909
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