Lopped Off

Not the saccharine Disney versions, but the unexpurgated Grimms, with their sawed-off heels and lopped-off heads and altogether dark and nasty vision. ❋ Terri Cheney (2011)

DAVID WAS: Whether it's Britney Spears 'lopped-off locks or Elvis Presley's empty pill bottles, the personal effects of celebrities are the modern day equivalent of medieval religious relics. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A lopped-off arm for brigandage proved as effective a deterrence as a Roman crucifixion once did. ❋ Arthur Herman (2010)

Naldo waited at a crossing, glancing to his right, hardly noticing the dark ruins of the Kaiser - Wilhelm Geddchtniskirche, its scarred and lopped-off stump of a spire a permanent reminder of the Second World War's devastation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Let the wind scramble your hair and notice things: the smell of star jasmine on the night air, the low and heavy, lopped-off look of a lambent waning moon, the rhythmic lean of palm trees waiting for the sun. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Francesca, who was always looking for a greater meaning to life, survives the crash and hooks up with the Church of the Ultimate Sacrifice, where true worship takes the form of lopped-off limbs and wearing your own eyeballs around your neck. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I am still working on stories that feature lopped-off heads, bloodsucking beasts and dusky maidens ripe for … you know. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sprained ankles, strained eyes, ink-stained or lopped-off fingers: all these are now things of the past. ❋ Unknown (2008)

To the tune of Joe Cocker's "You Are So Beautiful," several people were showing off some nasty injuries: a cauliflower ear, a lopped-off pinky, miserably calloused feet, and scarred knees, thighs and eyes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He once sent a rotting fish to a pollster who rubbed him the wrong way, and he seems to delight in wagging his partially lopped-off middle finger at rivals (the result of a teenage meat-slicing mishap). ❋ Unknown (2008)

She pointed at the lopped-off top of the largest of the pyramids. ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

Not since the Middle Ages, when lopped-off body parts of divine do-gooders were bought, sold, and traded, has relic theft been big news. ❋ Bill Crider (2006)