Word: senselessly
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While the police were wondering whether all this was mere publicity for "Madge Miller," Detective Sergeant Willis, who had been carried senseless to a nearby hospital, roused from his state of coma. In a few gasping sentences he sufficiently confirmed the dancer's story, then coughed, choked, died...
...came down stairs with the gun on and found Gillard beating his wife to death with a pair of heavy tongs, hitting her over the head. I attacked him empty handed. He knocked me down and I got up and went at him again. This time he knocked me senseless. My secretary at the time, a powerful Englishman, heard me call, during the fight, and rushed to my aid. He grabbed Gillard and I came to. I then drew my gun and held it hanging down in my hand, because Gillard was even more powerful than my secretary...
...salt laws] the authorities have violated the persons of people who have refused to part with salt, held generally in their fists. To open their fists their knuckles have been broken, their necks have been pressed, they have been even indecently assaulted until they have been rendered senseless...
...cell tier high above them cowered one James Edward Spiers, sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for robbing and knocking senseless two London cashiers. In a few minutes, as part of his official sentence he would be taken downstairs, strapped to the wooden triangle. His heart would be tested by the hospital orderly, and in the presence of the assembled J. P.'s he would receive 15 stinging, blood-raising strokes from the inch-thick lash. If as almost invariably happens, he should faint during the flagellation, the orderly was there to stop the beatings, apply restoratives until the prisoner resumed...
...children who read about the three funny little pigs are often those who grow up to be readers of G. A. Henty and Zane Grey." Only a cretin, she implied, could get literary satisfaction out of The Little Red Hen or the senseless animism of Peter Rabbit. She offered as an example of what would be more suitable, a story about a child named Peter who "ate 'n ate 'n ate spinach and loved and loved to drink his milk every day until he was strong enough to lift his little horse Trott Trott high over his head...