"There, lad," Dr. Manter said as he concluded his labors, and tied in the smallest possible compass the articles he had set out, "I allow your mother should be able to do all that is necessary; and unless the bone is so shattered that the leg must be Amputated, it is possible you will get along as well without a physician as with one."
"Dick in the Desert"
James Otis
We also saw a German who had had both his legs Amputated; he was allowed to make baskets, and was selling them.
"My Diary in Serbia: April 1, 1915-Nov. 1, 1915"
Monica M. Stanley
Each workman had a little pile of burnished arms and legs beside him that looked as if they had been Amputated and had left the body they belonged to behind.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann