Ermolov, Miloradovich, Platov, and others in proximity to the French near Vyazma could not resist their desire to
cut off and break up two French corps, and by way of reporting their intention to Kutuzov they sent him a blank sheet of paper in an envelope.
When I began chopping again, my axe slipped and
cut off my right leg.
But it was not so; in the evening poor Skye brought them back again, one by one in her mouth; not the happy little things that they were, but bleeding and crying pitifully; they had all had a piece of their tails
cut off, and the soft flap of their pretty little ears was cut quite off.
Thus you will be able to
cut off all his seven heads.