These, as the empire of Charlemagne declined, insulted and Dismembered it.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
So able a writer on physical geography as Sir J. E. Tennent believes that Ceylon is not a Dismembered portion of India, but a distinct formation, perhaps part of a continent which has long since disappeared.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
Down went the misbelievers,-fast sped the bloody fight,- Some ghastly and Dismembered lay, and some half dead with fright: Full sorely they repented that to the field they came, For they saw that from the battle they should retreat with shame.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow