But people died from ulcers all over the place and were having their stomachs or half their stomachs removed; there were permanent, mutilating operations and deaths going on around us.
Horrors abound on sheep farms, including mutilating, painful surgical procedures that are performed without anesthesia.
The poor Amazons had to start mutilating themselves because some big boob thoughtlessly dabbled in the dark art of etymology without the proper equipment.
Nothing is more apparent in this age of specialties than the dwarfing, crippling, mutilating influence of occupations or professions.