And the more appalling the mutilation, the more the mutilator is paid.
"The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors"
George Bernard Shaw
My wife's weary looks and thin white face haunted me in the night seasons far worse than the wife mutilator.
"The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant"
Alexander Johnstone Wilson
He observes that this craze for 'extra-illustrating' seizes remorselessly the previously harmless bibliophile, and leads him to become a wicked despoiler and mutilator of books.
"Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs"
Henry H. Harper