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Sentence Examples We first saw a hand swinging in and out of the door and we thought we saw a dead corpse. In the old days they called them corpse candles because they were so often seen in cemeteries. He had not gone much further when he saw a corpse candle moving before him along the road. Ken's corpse is bought by a mad scientist, who enjoys transforming human bodies into cyborgs. Leave a lump of coal laying around, and it would rot like a corpse as microbes gobbled it up, and a cup of oil would spoil like milk. The corpse was hardly cold before Helge began purging the museum of his father's taste. I let out a strangled gasp, recoiling from the corpse on the pyre as if its cold skin had burned my fingers. I sat staring at the now headless corpse until my vision finally dimmed and I collapsed. Stalin's body was embalmed and was presently put on display with Lenin's corpse in the renamed Lenin-Stalin Mausoleum. When she died in 1815, her corpse was dissected by a French surgeon and parts of it, including the brain and genitalia, preserved in bottles. Come 9pm it is hard to avoid a body being dissected or a corpse in a state of decomposition. Seven years later, he exhumed her corpse to rescue the sheaf of poems that, in a Romantic fit, he had buried with her. As I read about drugged milkshakes and the corpse wrapped in plastic film and carpet, I start feeling nervous. On Mondays her hair is crumpled and unbrushed, she is slumped in her seat, and she looks paler than a corpse in a coffin. The corpse is then made to swallow crushed rose petals, infused with Azoth, which quicken the corpse to life. We trembled from the initial bolt of lightning to the moment when the quickened corpse stirred, arose and lurched from the laboratory table. Every death is ugly and undignified, as life is wrenched away, leaving an inanimate, waxen corpse. My skin is as pale and waxen as a corpse, dotted here and there with loathsome freckles. Cutting his jugular would empty the blood entirely from his body, leaving him a bloodless shriveled corpse. When the rescuers returned, the sniffer dog whined, indicating it detected the smell of a corpse. Show More Sentences I leaned down from my saddle and snatched a shield from a corpse wearing red. Lajuwa reportedly hid his corpse, wore the royal regalia, and started impersonating the king. Indeed, his only remotely decent piece of acting comes when his corpse is laid out at the end of the film. I noticed that in less than a minute afterward, his corpse had all the stern rigidity of stone. A plumber named Joe is attacked and killed in the basement, and a long dead corpse is discovered. A shrouded corpse is bound in red cord by an attractively attired woman, perhaps implying that everything can be marketed. I was looking down at the butchered corpse of a man whose belly had been slashed and his guts spread for some distance along the ground. The Archbishop Turpin, disturbed by this macabre turn of events, decided to examine the corpse. A spirit then gradually materialized from the bones of the long dead corpse. When the two bargemen fish the dead woman from the water, Joe realises the corpse is his ex-girlfriend Cathie. Four corpse bearers, nasasalars, carry the body of a deceased on a bier to the Towers of Silence. After the corpse has been washed and dressed, its hands and feet are bound together to stop them inadvertently springing apart. The corpse is washed, wrapped in a shroud, carried to the cemetery by a group of mourners, and buried in a tomb. The body was discovered by grave diggers who went to the cemetery to prepare a tomb and were then drawn to the corpse by a screaming passer-by. In the European era white cloth was also used by the Bemba for wrapping the King's corpse. And the Thriller-like corpse of my trashy, teenage self has risen from the dead and is doing a little dance inside me. After the funeral ceremony, the body is carried on an iron bier on foot to the tower, by an even number of corpse bearers. The spectre shoved the corpse into a nearby gathering of troops, surprising them briefly when he charged into them, bowling them to the ground. He wanders miserably through the woods and by a stroke of misfortune finds himself wed to a corpse bride. One was a short man with bushy eyebrows, another looked like a corpse and, oddly, the third was a man in fishnets. Show More Sentences Unjustly imprisoned in a French island fortress, he escaped by having himself trussed up as a corpse and flung into the sea. She could have easily passed for a corpse, complete with a sickly pale complexion and dark circles under blood-shot eyes. A well-visited and almost intact corpse of a Mitchell B25 twin-engined bomber lies along a reef near Wongat Island, almost in sight of Madang. Add to this the morbid fascination people have with viewing a corpse and I'm done for. To make matters worse, the sound of the blast had drawn news helicopters from all directions like blowflies to a murdered corpse. An unburied corpse, left lying above ground for whatever reason, produced the opposite effect. He wraps her in a sheet like a corpse and carries her body to the abandoned abbey near the manor. Rhea untangled herself from the arms of the headless body and pushed the corpse aside. Sugimoto's photographs suggest that that one is fated to become either a faultless corpse or a bodiless ghost. Fly-pollinated plants, like the skunk cabbage of North America or the stinking corpse lily of Madagascar, typically have quite pungent odors. In another example, the papers allege, a soldier unzipped a body bag and took snapshots of a detainee's frozen corpse inside. She tried not to think that the body bag she had just seen carried away contained the lifeless corpse of someone that she had known. Three years later a partially mummified corpse was found in the grounds of a clinic in Chapel Allerton, Leeds. A door was opened to him and there, before his appalled gaze, still swung the unhandily dispatched corpse. The woman was dead, a walking, talking pale corpse seemingly brought back to life by the omnipotent mystical forces of necromancy. Arellan's corpse was unrecognisable, needing DNA tests to confirm his identity. I noticed someone who was examining the corpse turn pale with fright as he turned to the officer. The corpse is quickly stripped and butchered, salted in curing brine, and left to dry in a smoke hut overnight. Among folk beliefs are various practices to prevent a corpse from becoming a vampire. Both corpse and monument are still there, whereas the tombs of other violated burials returned to St-Denis merely as museum displays. Show More Sentences After the final splash of the corpse hitting the black water below them, she peered over the edge. Young men wrap the corpse in grass mats, carry it out to the burial ground, and bury it. As JB watched, the corpse seemed to swell, the skin cracking as if waiting to burst from some internal pressure. Oetzi's corpse was removed from the ice, not by archaeologists, with delicate tools, but by the local mountain rescue team, with a steam hammer. And a trio of roughly Earth-sized planets was found in 2002 to orbit a dense stellar corpse known as a neutron star. His men decapitated an opposition fighter's corpse and stuck his head on a post as a warning. These included a government official and a driver of a hearse conveying a corpse. The castration of the enemy or the enemy's corpse in some societies was a means of transferring the power of the male warrior to the victor. In one funeral scene, not only does the coffin break open to reveal the corpse, but also a black crow begins ominously cawing. All the good folks of Stone Junction want to give the man over to the Indians to kill, or string him up themselves and deliver his corpse. To allow a quick get-away he locked the corpse in a nearby privy so that the servants would think that the king was otherwise engaged. Her skin was all pallid, not as the lifeless corpse as many would likely say in jest and scorn. Tielle nodded, and they left the suddenly horrid room with its gruesome corpse. We are disturbed both by the traditional impiety of corpse desecration and the modern idea of the overreaching scientist. The Chinese, in common with many other cultures, like to send the corpse on its way with gifts placed in the coffin. Right next to his corpse, electric wires, clippers, pliers, and screwdrivers lie strewn across the sidewalk. Joren moved quickly, plucking the young woman away from the corpse and pressing her against the wall. I watched as two police divers plunged into the frigid East River and quickly collected the corpse. In some cases the corpse has been flayed to display the muscles and internal organs. He was tried in a kangaroo court and hanged, his corpse left to rot on the gibbet for four years. Show More Sentences I'm trying to eat my breakfast but I can see his corpse lying in a body bag on the glacier. As soon as the corpse loomed ahead, he pulled out the body bag. His chinless face was gaunt and unshaven, and his deep eye-sockets, together with his habit of looking sideways at people, gave him all the charm of a fresh corpse. His corpse, which was subsequently dumped in the Bosphorus, had a fatwa pinned to it. He twitched a lot and simply stared at the lifeless corpse of his brother. He let him go and his pale, lifeless corpse fell to the ground. It was the custom then to hang a convicted man on the spot where he committed the crime, and then display the corpse on a gibbet beside the public highway. Let's face it, we're a nation of rubberneckers, eager to gawk at any accident, smoldering homestead, or decaying corpse as long as it is not our own. A second corpse already lay sprawled at the policeman's boots. Behind him, she hopped from corpse to corpse, looting the bodies. So next time you smell someone's rotting corpse around the old folks home don't go calling the morgue until you confirm whether there's lutefisk for dinner that night. The legs were also placed along the limbs of the corpse and all covered with the skin before mantras and oblations were made and the funeral pyre set alight. She starved to death last year beside her mother's corpse in a Doncaster flat while the case workers who should have been protecting her found other things to do. They listen to their shrewd father, Tywin Lannister, smear their dead son in front of his corpse. She threw my make-believe corpse into a real open grave while I haunted. Though Hader's smooch with the dog is the most cringe-worthy moment, Fred Armisen licking a corpse was a close second. One possible tactic could involve shooting a fox before the hunt sets out and dragging its corpse round the countryside for hounds to follow the scent. A proper understanding of these images relies on a conversance with the doctrinal sources treating the decaying corpse as a subject for devotional practice. As it was frequently mentioned in Buddhist sutras, the practice of contemplating on a decaying corpse was adopted widely by monks regardless of their sectarian affiliations. Well, by all but the leading lady naturally, as her semi-autonomous corpse is lead around from scene to scene by poor Timothy, mustering as much dignity as he can manage. Show More Sentences They fish a worm-eaten corpse out of the river while swimming. In more than a few, the reader reaches the verdict convinced that the guilty have gone free and the truth has been buried deeper than the victim's multiply autopsied corpse. In addition Toltecs and Aztecs sometimes burned a dog with a human corpse in the belief that the latter's sins would thus be transferred to the dog. The corpse was moved from the private bedchamber to the tomb in a public procession not unlike that at a wedding, with the family marching in hierarchical order. If two corpse candles were seen at the same time this was taken to indicate that two deaths would occur in the same household at about the same time. While reports of corpse candles have been recorded all over the UK, they are most numerous in Wales, where they are also known as Cannyllau Cyrth. Then Roddy realised that he wouldn't get any indie chick poon unless he swallowed a thesaurus, and they turned into Feeder if they'd have kept Jon Lee's corpse on drums. After death, the corpse is washed and prepared for cremation. But then Barkulkul deviates from fraternal expectations-he kills his brother, plants him like a long yam and covers his corpse with a bunch of bananas. In that image too, a young boy stands only feet from a lifeless corpse bound to a cross and publicly displayed. Let the reader picture to himself the open coffin with the corpse of the lovely girl, surrounded by the hired mourners singing their dismal De profundis in hoarse voices. Two years ago the corpse, now kept in cold storage at the South Tyrol Archaeological Museum in Bolzano, Italy, was fully defrosted for the first time. He saw the corpse and his eyes bulged horrifically before he crashed to his knees, sprawled out bestially on all fours and vomited all over the corpse. Laurence Sterne's corpse was sold to a medical school by grave robbers. The first corpse of a sailor was found close to an escape hatch in the vessel and was being brought to the surface by Norwegian divers, navy officials said. But on the bed, his city clothes are laid out like a corpse on its bier. He was posthumously attainted of treason, and along with those of other deceased regicides, his corpse was exhumed and hanged, and his skull impaled in Westminster Hall. Damien picked his way through the corpse ridden Plutonian landscape. Last year's album was an exercise in tension, austerity, and patience, with each of the four tracks blooming into fetid splendor at the torporific pace of a corpse flower. All that was left of the corpse was a headless, armless torso with one leg, still wearing a stiletto-heeled boot. Show More Sentences A barefoot corpse in camouflaged khakis is being carried into the street, partially wrapped in rug, as I enter the house. The corpse that security forces bundled into a body bag was clad in sweatpants and a work shirt. A bullet-riddled corpse had been found on one of the brushy streets where houses once stood in the Lower 9th. These require the isolation of the corpse, prohibit the holding of wakes over the body, and permit doctors to prevent the removal of a body from hospital. To purify their bathing water, they used something called natron, which just happens to be the salt, which is also used to preserve the corpse during mummification. The character within dies and becomes a frozen corpse floating in space. Once cleaned and sealed in two body bags, the corpse will be driven to a fresh row of graves. His friends broke several laws by transporting Abbey's corpse without a permit, interring him illegally on federal land, and forging a death certificate. A faint scream from the corpse jolted the men from their shock. A mourner, fallen asleep in a late-night vigil, awakes the next morning to find that not only are his trousers missing, but the corpse has been stolen as well. The corpse of a British man who died in Macedonia is being flown to Frankfurt for Ebola testing. As for the Little Tramp himself, his corpse was reburied in a concrete grave to prevent future snatching. In 1796 the corpse of convicted murderer Francis Morgan was hung in chains from a gibbet as a sign to arriving convicts of their fate for bad behaviour. In India, actors are often treated like deities on par with the corpse of Princess Diana. We flense the corpse, cut the skin in strips, feed them through the projector. Friends looked on the corpse of him they loved, and among the truest mourners was the unintentional amicide. Here is his black heart sitting there as large as life in the middle of the pulp of his banjaxed corpse. This week, though, has been ridiculous, with each new breakfast time bringing with it a little corpse being removed with a dessert spoon. In the end Johnstone was identified by his neck medallion that was still on the corpse. You told me you were all-beef, not filled with some pink slime ammonia goop! That is the last thing I want mixed up in my mulched-up cow corpse! Show More Sentences Depending upon the exact ritual, sometimes the corpse would be skinned by assistant priests, except for the hands and feet. His corpse was taken to the public Plaza Mayor of Cuzco, where a herald proclaimed his crimes. Locals in the nearby hamlet of Succoth at the head of Loch Long claimed the head and hands of the corpse were missing. However, it is said that animals did not feed on him and his body produced no odor, and that the corpse caused fear and nightmares in the people. Bacteria jumpstart decay, releasing from the corpse nutrients that the plant can absorb through its leaves. The discovery of the mutilated corpse allows Digby Driver to whip up media hysteria to new heights. Inside, a miniature corpse lay on an operating table in a tiled room. But a team of scientists revealed Otzi is a Copper Age corpse and actually lived 5,300 years ago. The corpse plant holds the dubious record of being the smelliest flower ever discovered. The people considered the proposition, for it would be innovatory to replace the corpse. The spirit of the dead was believed to hover near the resting place of the corpse, and cemeteries were places the living avoided. Some of the quality, that were o' his ain unhappy persuasion, had the corpse whirried away up the water. The corpse of the freak, the child-fucker, the monster, slipped to the floor with a wet smack. A captain's guard marched before the corpse, the captain of it in the rear, the firelocks reversed, the drums beating the dead march. A bunch of dimeless promoters and sponges have been buzzing around him, the kind who can smell a sucker faster than a buzzard can sight a corpse. Police are trying to work out whether a corpse found a year after Genette vanished in 1978 was that of the 13-year-old papergirl. The agitations resembled the grinnings and writhings of a galvanized corpse, not the struggles of an athletic man. Dr Sabhan told the court that the CID teams could not identify the attacker from the seminal fluid found on the corpse of the deceased. Exoplanets are the distant offspring of a star beyond our sun, a brown dwarf, or a stellar corpse. After two days, the corpse was interred in a plain tomb, within the church of the Greyfriars. Show More Sentences After the battle Richard's corpse was taken to Leicester and buried without pomp. The Royalists returned to power in 1660, and they had his corpse dug up, hung in chains, and beheaded. From the limited evidence available, burial seemed to involve skinning and dismembering a corpse with the bones placed in caves. The protagonist, a ranger named Talion, is killed in the prologue, but his corpse is reanimated by an angry spirit named Celebrimbor. Internal organs were removed from the corpse and placed in four canopic jars. All the arrow wounds upon Edmund's corpse had healed and his head was reattached. Teach's corpse was thrown into the inlet while his head was suspended from the bowsprit of Maynard's sloop so that the reward could be collected. He was lying on the table with head pillowed on the broken concertina and body sheltered with the Federal Flag, looking like a martial corpse. After begging the queen to stop sleeping with Claudius, Hamlet leaves, dragging Polonius's corpse away. He took so long to complete sketches that its corpse began to decompose and some parts had to be improvised. Because the sculpture itself was made in 1991, the shark is very much rotting and deformed due to the formaldehyde taking its toll on the corpse. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket. These are retrieved by Thoth and Nephthys, who kill the lioness and use her skin to wrap the child's savaged corpse. His corpse, in its distinctive iron coffin, was moved several times over the next decades, but is now lost. Saint David is also thought to be associated with corpse candles, lights that would warn of the imminent death of a member of the community. After days of decomposition, beetles from the families Histeridae and Staphylinidae and anthomyiid flies invaded the corpse, as well. Tristan dies of grief, thinking that Iseult has betrayed him, and Iseult dies swooning over his corpse. Unable to find it, he mutilated Jordan's corpse and moved it. Royalists dug up Cromwell's corpse and gave it a posthumous execution. Here the team try to join the dots between an unidentifiable corpse, a stolen grimoire, and a peculiar south London housing estate whose architect may have practised magic. Show More Sentences They found his corpse inside a wooden box located in the ladies' room. That is why, as a matter of personal and ethnic pride, Menelaus along with the other Achaeans fights stalwartly to try and prevent Hector's stripping of Patroclus's corpse. Otherwise, unlawfully subjecting a corpse to intrusions by life-support mechanisms could be regarded as the crime of violating a corpse in South African law. The Praetorian guard preferred Alexander, murdered Elagabalus, dragged his mutilated corpse through the streets of Rome, and threw it into the Tiber. A corpse swirled past me, gape-mouthed, fish-white, dull eyed. A further indignity occurred when the corpse was lowered into the tomb. The corpse was too large for the space, and when attendants forced the body into the tomb it burst, spreading a disgusting odour throughout the church. Above all, the corpse, as the impermanent remains of a deceased person, is already an object or a thing, and once plastinated becomes an object of scientific information. Roger of Howden claimed that Henry's corpse bled from the nose in Richard's presence, which was assumed to be a sign that Richard had caused his death. On these he encountered a diseased man, a decaying corpse, and an ascetic. The corpse is buried in all solemnity, and two days later, at dead of night, the bocor digs it up, stops feeding it salt, and has himself a zombie. Now here it is 2002 and I'm listening to death metal avatars Cannibal Corpse. Examples from Classical Literature And then, on the windowsill, we found the dead and desiccated corpse of a swallow. He might have coped with the blackmailer alive, but hardly with his corpse. He was snatched from the world in the prime of his youth, by a putrid fever, supposed to have been caught from dissecting a corpse in a state of dangerously advanced putrefaction. But in its present acephalous condition it is but a fragment of sciencea headless corpse, unfit to rank among complete sciences. For this reason many new trees spring up in groups, obtaining their first alimentation from the dissolution of the corpse. Euripides allows the mangled corpse of astyanax to be brought upon the stage on his father's shield. Next morning we started back to banda, taking the corpse with us for burial. As if in compensation, the other directed a soldier to strip the bandolier from the corpse. Dimly he saw himself, faceless, a beamer gripped tight on one hand, a corpse at his feet. When the vessel reached its destination the Italian bellfounder was found to be a corpse! He ordered the hero to kill his own son and serve his corpse for the Brahmin to eat. If any ornaments be found with the corpse, they are chiefly of cannel coal. A canzone of Andrea da Basso traces in detail the corruption of the corpse of a hard-hearted fair one. There is even a story told of the generosity of the Conqueror, in cashiering a soldier who gashed the corpse of the dead hero. An officer ascended the steps, approached the corpse, and discharged his chassepot into the left temple. The same evening he was attacked with choleraic disease, and two days afterwards was a corpse. I wonder how many hundreds were cognisant of this red-headed Spanish corpse? When a death occurs among the Konga Pallans of Coimbatore, the big toes and thumbs of the corpse are tied together. On the death of a married Idaiyan, at Coimbatore, the corpse is placed in a seated posture. Again it seemed that the features of the corpse had moved responsive to her own. Show More Sentences Then the woman wept bitterly, and when she had wept her fill they buried the corpse. And the Danava struck with that weapon, fell down on the ground a lifeless corpse! Dermot saw that the corpse was that of a low-caste Hindu, clad only in a dirty cotton koorta and dhoti. There was sadness on the faces of Penn and Virginia, as they sat by the corpse of salina. In a cave, with his foot upon the corpse of a youth, sat the crowned and sceptered majesty of Death. Thirty yards or so from this, and in the donga, lay the corpse of the Prince Imperial. Intelligence, mind, and will were fast bound in a corpse which they could not electrify. Four men lift the corpse on a rude table, and there it is thoroughly washed and an embalming fluid injected in the arm. Outside I found a great crowd to see the embarcation of the corpse for its last home, the Campo Santo. These placed corn in the mouth of the corpse, together with some money as ferriage for the Maya Charon. There was not a living fibre in it, and my task was to try to galvanise the corpse. It dies a natural death, even though some Alaric or Genseric happens to be at hand to take possession of the corpse. We go to ashes at once, and leave no corpse for a ghoul to inhabit and make a vampire of. It was the corpse of a boy blue and shrivelled, like that of one frozen to death. A flash of fur in the moonlight, and he was alone with the corpse of his Holstein. Arrived at Pekin, the humpback pays the debts of a corpse, and has it buried. The face of time had been imaged like the withering mask of a corpse to him. The Uaupes in the Amazons incinerate a corpse a month after death, pound up the ashes, and mix them with their fermented drink. But my most urgent task was speedily to make way with the incriminating corpse. Next followed the corpse, after which came those who were to die at the interment. Show More Sentences This I learned, upon inquiry, was always the case after interring the corpse and leaving the cemetery. The Rishi said that he would try, and in a moment he and the corpse had disappeared, and Jalandhar stood by her. If I had encouraged him the khansamah would have wandered all through Bengal with his corpse. When the litter was set down in the courtyard of Las Palmas it carried only a corpse! It grieved his mother that he was not found, that her heart had not been harrowed by the look of the swoln corpse. They wished to bury the corpse at Tabora, but Livingstone's servants would not hear of it. The victim gradually became paler and limper, until Maskull held a corpse in his arms. It probably wouldn't be noticed that the torn and blood-spattered clothes on the corpse were not thermostatic. The Lusatian Wends hold that when a corpse chews its shroud or sucks its own breast, all its kin will soon follow it to the grave. Of one half of the corpse of Tiamat he formed the earth, and of the other half, the heavens. In the crisis, beside her father's corpse, she had played the traitress to her resolve. And he fared back with the twain to see the corpse, which had been laid in an apartment. In Montgomeryshire, it is customary to rest the corpse on its way to the churchyard under one of these trees of good omen. A progress of two, Jesse Plum and Meco, bearing on a pole between them the corpse of a mountain cat. Jason sprang over the corpse and tore at the multifold bolts and locks that sealed the door. The corpse is afterwards inuncted with the gum of cedar, and strewed with Myrrha, cinnamon, and various spices. The corpse was filled with spices, drenched in a bath of natron, wound with bandages and thus transformed into a mummy. No mark of vampirism was found either on the corpse of the son or on the others. My life seemed only a vermiculate one, a crawling about of half-thoughts-half-feelings through the corpse of a decaying existence. And his violaceous lips gave forth a breath more nauseous than the exhalation from a corpse. Show More Sentences Billy Chope, half-way across the floor, recoiled from the corpse, and glared at it pallidly from the doorway. The potsherd graves are so called from the use of potsherds to cover the corpse. The next day this poor convict was taken with the prison fever, and in one short week he was a corpse. Thou makest the shells to swell, the wine to bubble, and the corpse to putrefy! The Demon, baffled and furious, is left gazing upon the corpse of tamara. Nor, in general, is it possible to secure it again until the whale is fairly captured and a corpse. Not at all, for I am free to resuscitate the seeming corpse. The tensed body relaxed, and the black, stooping over the corpse, helped carry it out. Greedy for carrion, and sure that this must be a fresh corpse, the bird swooped down upon the boy. This done, we began to unroll the wrappings of the holy corpse. He said if we could find that corpse we would be celebrated, and more talked about than if we got drownded. In the bosom of this corpse was plunged a poniard, the gold hilt of which shone in the moonbeams. When the place of interment was reached the corpse was lowered, just as it was, into a deep pit. What good can it do you to throw cold water on that corpse and get up that selfish theory that there ain't been any murder? Antony remains motionless, stiffer than a stake, pale as a corpse. The corpse thus sheltered from contact with the air does not putrefy. It was like a corpse artificially convulsed by means of a galvanic battery. And it was his idea, vaguely formulated, that his corpse would be for those eyes a great and salt reproach. So I stood between her and the hearth, on which lay the captain's corpse, with the hearthrug turned up on either side to cover it. Then he went around the corpse and continued toward the engine room. Show More Sentences An exhalation, foul as a corpse long unburied, fanned his face. The barrow was got ready and the corpse placed on it, covered with a blanket, and bound to its place with the rope. He must have been a corpse even when I took him for a merrymaker. This shock was all the more terrible as it seemed to galvanise a corpse. Madame Rachel can only galvanise the corpse, not revivify it. The kid figured you for a decrepit old fogy, and just didn't fancy the idea of having to help cart a corpse out of the train at Newmarket. The Papacy is now a corpse beyond all power of galvanization. So that big steamer, dying by a sudden stroke, drifted, an unwieldy corpse, away from the track of other ships. The flesh on the corpse was not as thick as the back of a knife, and incisions in it brought not one drop of blood. He looked back and there was a corpse running and gnashing its teeth. So Imam Din and I emptied out the corpse one time, with my shaving soap and trade gunpowder, and hot water. He seemed to have a greenish tint like a corpse putrefying in a pond. No wonder he was looking decidedly shifty when he spotted the signet ring found on the corpse. At last his spout grew thick, and with a frightful roll and vomit, he turned upon his back a corpse. It has been a success, even if only the corpse is left in Newfoundland. Vali's corpse is borne aloft by fellow monkeys in a palanquin which is then placed on the funeral pyre and set alight. He had also brought a coffin with him to transport the corpse to Khiva. In the very act of running to climb Colonel Pyncheon's knee, the boy had discovered the old Puritan to be a corpse. They anoint the corpse with warm water and balsam, and it comes to life. Then he shot the arrow and fell back and would have died, but he lit on a nettle and sprang up too gaily for a corpse. Show More Sentences Would she not prefer to espouse death itself rather than that living corpse? Outside, below the window, lay the lifeless corpse of a juvenile Nightjar, a bird that few people ever see. It depicts two men lifting a corpse into a tumbril while a third begins to lift a corpse from the ground. I listened as if to a tale of black magic at work upon a corpse. On the next morning she was found a corpse, weltering in her blood. All living men flee from the corruption of an unburied corpse. What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. Instead of the child of his hopes he sees a shriveled and leprous corpse. Find more words! 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