| 1. | Carter, the surgeon, had to amputate it directly. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 2. | Saw a live tree, and you don't get this dust amputate a live bone, and you don't get it SNEEZES. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 3. | Mortification set in, and they had to amputate him. - from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| 4. | From the stump of the arm, the amputated hand. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 5. | The wounded man was shown his amputated leg stained with clotted blood and with the boot still on. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 6. | He drew nearer and saw that the old man had only one leg bent under him, the other had been amputated above the knee. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |