1.   He was gritting his teeth against the pain, keeping it at bay while he studied the stump, the severed hand.

2.   In the dresser drawer was a freshly severed hand, all bloody at the roots.

3.   Amputating as quickly as they could, doctors tossed severed hands into a communal bucket.

4.   He keeps a freezer loaded with severed hands, to provide fingerprints on murder weapons.

5.   In one, a toddler with a severed hand stares blankly.

6.   Sometimes a severed hand, for instance, is often buried at the entrance to a shop to encourage to customers to come on in and improve business.

7.   Soon her severed hand, with its shimmery blue nail polish, turns up in the New Mexico town of El Nino and begins to perform miracles.

8.   The accident happened on a factory trawler with a ready supply of ice to preserve the severed hand.

9.   The surgeons told him his severed hand probably had taken the brunt of the impact.

10.   The surgery began by removing the small muscles from the severed hand, reducing the chance of a toxin release or infection, the surgeon said.