The first amputator, the first explorer into Nature's hidden paths, where she guards her secrets so religiously-they only felt the same.
"The Man with a Shadow"
George Manville Fenn
As soon as a shirt-tag was cut off, the amputator, flourishing it on the blade of his knife, like an Indian flaunting a scalp-lock, made a dash for the elm, where it was pinned up as a trophy.
"Frank Merriwell's Reward"
Burt L. Standish