And the Lord said to Josue: Fear them not: for to morrow at this same hour I will deliver all these to be slain in the sight of Israel: thou shalt hamstring their horses, and thou shalt burn their chariots with fire.
Hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire, etc.
Beyond this appeal from heart to heart, I should rejoice to show clearly how to hamstring this Rebellion and to conquer a peace, all of which I am sure can be done.
The flexion may be corrected by lengthening the hamstring tendons, bringing the divided biceps tendon through an opening in the vastus lateralis, and attaching it to the rectus and to the patella.
They generally aimed at the breast of the bull, or tried tohamstring it as soon as possible.
When they tracked an ox in the woods, they made the hounds drive him out into the prairie, where the matadors could spur after him, and, wheeling round the monster, hamstring him or thrust him through with a lance.
Bacheet sprang forward, and with an Arab sword he cut thehamstring of one leg.
What I want ter say is ef that tha’ ranch yander be your’n, you may hamstring me ef I hain’t proud to have such a man for a neighbor.
An exploded shell passed through the hamstring muscles of the right thigh and embedded itself in the ligamentous tissues of the internal condyle of the femur.
However, subsequent enquiries make it probable that the Indian practice of cutting out the hamstring of deer has no other object than that of preventing eaters of venison from going lame.
M199) But some hunters hamstring the game for a different purpose; they hope thereby to prevent the dead beast or its ghost from getting up and running away.
M199 Some hunters hamstring the dead game in order to lame the ghosts of the animals.
To prevent that catastrophe they therefore hamstring the beast as soon as they have butchered it.
The wolves were close around the buffalo, snapping incessantly at his heels, in their endeavour tohamstring him.
I suppose they feared that some of us might crawl out and hamstring them did they picket them near their camp.
It may be imagined that a quick cut from such a formidable weapon will at once divide the hamstring of any animal.
I think the elephant would have charged, but without a moment's hesitation my gallant Hamrans rushed towards him sword in hand in the hope of slashing hishamstring before he could reach the forest.
