They unmarked a child as one might unmark a pocket-handkerchief.

Products, destined for tumblers, had their joints dislocated in a masterly manner--you would have said they had been boned.

Thus gymnasts were made.
Not only did the Comprachicos take away his face from the child, they also took away his memory.

At least they took away all they could of it; the child had no consciousness of the mutilation to which he had been subjected.

This frightful surgery left its traces on his countenance, but not on his mind.