The air is
cut away before, And closes from behind.
He looked like a man
cut away from the stake, when the fire has overrunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming them, or taking away one particle from their compacted aged robustness.
When this work was accomplished, the miners resumed their picks and
cut away the rock from underneath the wheel itself, taking care to support it as they advanced upon blocks of great thickness.
We discovered that it would be futile to attempt to
cut away the bars and chains which held him prisoner, so, at his suggestion I returned to search the bodies on the floor above for keys to open the padlocks of his cell and of his chains.
For all that, when I saw what care he took to pluck out the threads where the button had been
cut away, I put a higher value on his gift.
The blacksmith took my feet in his hand, one after the other, and
cut away some of the hoof.
Word was passed across the deck and over the side to the Heliumetic warriors below that at the third gun they were to
cut away. Twelve keen swords must strike simultaneously and with equal power, and each must sever completely and instantly three strands of heavy cable that no loose end fouling a block bring immediate disaster upon the Vanator.
Towards evening the mate and boatswain begged the master of our ship to let them
cut away the fore-mast, which he was very unwilling to do; but the boatswain protesting to him that if he did not the ship would founder, he consented; and when they had
cut away the fore-mast, the main-mast stood so loose, and shook the ship so much, they were obliged to cut that away also, and make a clear deck.
However inconvenient the position, it was now necessary to attack in order to
cut away through for themselves.
The parlour had once been two rooms, and the floor was swaybacked where the partition had been
cut away. The wind from without made waves in the long carpet.
Immediately with my knife I
cut away the heavy locks, and bathed the part repeatedly in water.
'
Cut away then, and tell us what your eyes make of it.'