1 They hang, behead, and impale their criminals in the most agreeable possible manner; but some of these, like clever rogues, have contrived to escape human justice, and succeed in their fraudulent enterprises by cunning stratagems.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 52. Toxicology. 2 They saw heads decently impaled for presentation to the Sublime Porte.
3 During this conversation, the news was spread that two Viziers and the Mufti had been strangled at Constantinople, and that several of their friends had been impaled.
4 The analogy was justified by the appearance of the lady, whose large-eyed prettiness had the fixity of something impaled and shown under glass.
5 The banks meeting behind were bare of a hedge, save such as was formed by disconnected tufts of furze, standing upon stems along the top, like impaled heads above a city wall.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 6 Pierced by their own weapons, and impaled on hard splinters of wood, they come half slain to the ground with the vast mass behind them.
7 He clutched it in an instant, seized the boat-knife, and impaling the letter on it, sent it thus loaded back into the ship.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.