How To Use Corpse In A Sentence

He identified the corpse as the criminal hunted after.
Three hundred thousand corpses in sandy mass graves cry out that the war was just. Tragedy of Tony Blair
The fact that many crustaceans, being omnivorous, may act as scavengers and eat the corpses of fellow aquatic creatures need not be a deterrent.
They have no hope, merely a mindless shriek of hatred they believe might bring down destruction on all so they can scavage the corpses. Obama Discusses Wright Controversy In New Web Video
+The Story+ of this ballad, simple in itself, introduces to us the elaborate question of the ‘lyke-wake,’ or the practice of watching through the night by the side of a corpse. Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series

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My - dear - Count!" says I, astonished, and everyone stopped talking; the Queen looked pop-eyed, and even Albert left off prosing to the noble corpse beside him. Fiancée
The word narwhal came from Norweigan and meant corpse whale. Novel Excerpt: World Fantasy | Goblin Mercantile Exchange
He ignored Sir Ralph's corpse but lifted back the insignia over the hospitaller's and the canvas sheet which lay underneath.
They likewise carefully watch the corpse by night and day till the time of interment, and conceive that the deil tinkles at the lykewake of those who felt in their dead-thraw the agonies and terrors of remorse. Notes
Cassia Boccanera the _amorosa_ and avengeress who had flung herself into the Tiber with her brother Ercole and the corpse of her lover Flavio. The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
Walsingham assigns assistant secretary and chief intelligencer John Shakespeare to investigate the scheme and quickly concludes the Drake plot is tied to the murder of a relative of the Queen Lady Blanche Howard, whose corpse mutilated with numerous stabbings was found in a London fire. Martyr-Rory Clements « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
In italian, the word mummia pl. mummie stands for dead corpse who got "mummified" and didn't become skeleton. Zora la Vampira (Vampires vs. Mummies, Pt. II)
Additionally, bacteria feeding on the bloated fish corpses could multiply and further deplete the oxygen. Millions of sardines die in Californian marina
What could have been more natural, then, than that Ballard the student should devote himself to classes in anatomy, spending quality time with corpses, some of whom, in life, had been dedicated professors in the department. The Catastrophist
He shows how superstitions about vampires - which are found in cultures as remote from Transylvania as China - originate not in the epic misdeeds of Vlad the Impaler, but in the behaviour of the human corpse after death.
“Lych” was the Old English word for corpse — hence the roofed-over lych gate outside most churches, for the temporary resting of the bier (and its bearers) on the way into the graveyard. The Moor
This weekend in sickening episode of political cynicism Livingstone cheerleaders dragged out the corpse of Stephen Lawrence onto the stage courtesy of his duped mother. Black Issues or White Guilt
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.
A half-score of white-coated foot flared like fatwood in a winter fire, and the line slowed, but only momentarily, before the Shining Foot surged forward once more, the second line of troops marching over the charred corpses of those who had led the charge. The Chaos Balance
Amy peered round at the vast landscape surrounding her and held her fingers to her nose to block the awful stench of rotting corpses.
As the film begins, a fishing boat pulls a corpse-like Bourne out of the Mediterranean Sea; he is, as his name underlines, reborn in this instant.
In a quiet corner there were already a dozen corpses covered by blankets.
Blood welled, flowed freely down the corpse's sides.
The dusty barren ground was littered with piles of unburied corpses.
The claim made in the Observer that the 18th-century obstetricians, given that they obtained the corpses of the pregnant women that they experimented upon through "burking" - having people murdered to order - came as a shock to many medics. The Guardian World News
He then ran through a series of gaffes Obama has made over the years before settling on his favorite one: the president pronouncing the word "corpsman" as "corpseman. Sean Hannity On Obama: 'I Don't Think He's That Smart' (VIDEO)
On the night Lincoln was shot, another would-be assassin put Seward's son in a coma and slashed the secretary of state's face so savagely that the doctor who saved his life said he'd "looked like an exsanguinated corpse. David Quigg: HRC's Choice: Seward or Chase?
The corpse of the household servant still swung from the branch of an elm tree.
The body would learn it couldn't kill the infection with fever, and would instead, as a defense, cool the body down to near corpse-like temperatures.
A striking, graphic array of evidence in the two books strongly suggests that it was Hodel who, on January 15, 1947, killed actress Elizabeth Short, then surgically cut her in two and transported the halved, nude, exsanguinated corpse — the internal organs kept painstakingly intact — to a vacant lot, where he laid the pieces out as if in imitation of certain Surrealist artworks by Man Ray. California Dreamgirl
I leaned down from my saddle and snatched a shield from a corpse wearing red.
He recoiled in horror at the sight of the corpse.
For his villain-in-chief, however, Garner repurposes a name filched from the Norse pantheon - originally, Nastrond signified the underworld Shore of Corpses, but in Garner's Alderley he is the unseen Great Spirit of Darkness, moving against the child protagonists by means of minions like the "svart alfar". Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
There's a whole craft industry based on vehicles for transferring corpses from the chapel to the boneyard.
Even in those parts of des where peculiar means are used to get rid of the dead – the Tibetans, for example, grind up corpses into keema which is fed to the local vultures – it is an act of desperation, in this case a reaction to the unfortunate habit corpses have of refusing to decay at high altitudes. Ways of Dying
Booth : Alright listen. A [ w ] decomposed [ w ] corpse was found this morning at Arlington National [ w ] Cemetery .
Blum and Noble examined DNA samples from the brains of corpses of thirty-five alcoholics and thirty-five nonalcoholics.
The couple were arrested at the airport while agents searched their bags fruitlessly to find spades for disinterring Monroe's corpse, and jailed for 12 hours before being flown home. Al Murray on the Twitter joke trial: 'Problem is, the law don't do funny'
Casting his powerfully subversive, silent gaze round the table as a wine master held forth, Baker seemed determined to get his fellow members to "corpse": he had no time whatever for oenological waffle. George Baker obituary
Only two priests appear in the film, one a twisted corpse mutilator and the other a villain whose strategy for defending Jerusalem is to convert to Islam and leave the people to die.
The main method is national assistance, including reduction of rent for land and of enslavement, lighten punishment, relief, supply doctors and medicines, bury corpses, etc.
The lack of empathy for the characters and corpse-like coldness permeating both the look and feel of the picture make it a tough film to connect with.
They are as goners as those who went and are gone, all non-surviving the same except for individual places in the sequence ... like concentration-camp inmates elatedly counting the day's droppings and corpses as if tomorrow isn't their turn next. Shock and awe (Jack Bog's Blog)
They hide it for the men to find amongst the corpses that are transported to the crematorium.
‘I spoke to fusiliers whose parents live in Halifax One of the most moving experiences for me was going to Arras in France, to the re-interment of two fusiliers who had died in World War I. The corpses had been found as a result of the War Graves Commission; there're still many people missing.Road, Whitworth and Spotland,’ he said.
After death, the corpse is washed and prepared for cremation.
She lingered, but lingered dyingly, for three years; and then, for the first time since William's death, she smiled: that smile remained on the lips of the corpse. Lucretia — Volume 04
Hanút," i.e., leaves of the lotus-tree to be infused as a wash for the corpse; camphor used with cotton to close the mouth and other orifices; and, in the case of a wealthy man, rose-water, musk, ambergris, sandal-wood, and lignaloes for fumigation. Arabian nights. English
Four corpse bearers, nasasalars, carry the body of a deceased on a bier to the Towers of Silence.
Seven faithful worthies trudged up the steps of the underground shelter, lugging the corpses of Mr. and Mrs. Hitler in Wehrmacht blankets. The Nazis' Last Stand
As he stood up to leave, Digger came in, fresh from embalming a corpse, rubber gloves in hand.
Mexican marines discovered 72 unburied corpses at a ranch after a gun battle with suspected gang members.
And though Corpses is shot very, very stylistically, full of rapid-fire cutaways and over-the-top art direction.
The corpses of the prisoners were nearly unrecognizable from the number of bullet wounds they'd received.
We are being asked once again, to "repackage" Nigeria's rotting corpse as if this would prevent its smell from choking the world. Vanguard News
She is a beautiful maiden seen from one side and a rotten corpse from the other, may we all get to face the good side of Her Face. Is jesus your lord and savior?
Rats run freely over the shrouded corpses which lie abandoned in the corridors.
The plot – trying to find the nutter responsible for the growing heap of corpses and the Welsh girl found in the hospital carpark with locked-in syndrome – kept us guessing right up to the cliffhanging moment when Tom got clobbered from behind and jabbed with a needle right in the middle of his favourite yodelling track. TV Rewind: Single Father; The Pillars of the Earth; Jamie's 30-Minute Meals; Nigella Kitchen; Food: What Goes in Your Basket?
To avoid infection, the corpses of the velites had been speedily buried; and the position of the graves was no longer visible. Salammbo
Thieves are digging up corpses in order to steal jewellery and gold teeth.
Daniel Hertzberg for The Wall Street Journal Colson Whitehead The rollicking gusto of some of the writing, with its overheated adjectives and over-the-top images, is hard to resist: It was the passionless, death's-head skull of a long-dead corpse, instinct with hellish life; and the glazed eyes swollen and bulbous betrayed the thing's blindness. Instinct With Hellish Life
John's not out in the streets with the perps and corpses.
As a bloated corpse swells and its distended belly explodes, sending guts flying and Booth retching, Bones does a happy dance: You rarely get to actually see a body rupture from distension. Matt's TV Week in Review
For she bids us commit to the earth the corpses of all who die not "unbaptized," "excommunicate," or wilful suicides, and who are willing to lie in our consecrated ground; giving thanks to God that our dear brother has been delivered from the miseries of this sinful world, and in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life. Westminster Sermons with a Preface
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.
Wow, the little fella is still ranting about corpseman, hey who else was ranting about that? dr. runt?????? Think Progress » As Polls Show Increasing Support For Health Care Reform, Cavuto Claims ‘Polls Are Increasingly Looking Worse’
Night white dispassion retreat, the left hand flips, ruddy of the burn immediately inherit to poison corpse, then rapidly blaze.
The house is festooned with everything from the snarling Rex to corpses rising out of the lawn.
Other frequenters of the cemetery I see before me — dark, silent figures, figures of persons whom still unsevered cords of memory seemed to have bound to the place for the rest of their lives, and compelled to wander, like unburied corpses, in quest of suitable tombs. Through Russia
Orders were given to bar the door against the convict gang who had come to discharge their unpleasant duty, and while all were busy decking out the unconscious corpse in gayest attire, none paid any heed to me bending over the fire with the motherless child, journeying fast to join its dead parent. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
dwarfish", subsumed to their mode of transport, or scattered about - as are the backpackers outside Venice station in Vertigo - like corpses. The Guardian World News
Researchers need a growing supply of corpses for dissection.
Corpse retrieval is yet another sign of the complete moribundity of the MMO genre. Enlightened Penalties
The ancient Egyptians mummified more than just human corpses.
Corvi-Mora, SE11, Fri to 31 JulSSMurray Ballard's The Prospect Of Immortality is the outcome of five years of photographic investigation into the cryonics industry, the technique of deep-freezing a human corpse in the belief or hope that future scientific advances might enable it to be brought back to life. This week's new exhibitions
Today in his speech Obama called a corpsman a "corpseman". Obama calls a corpsman a "corpseman"
Von Hagens, who was born in 1945, is reported to have had a lively interest in the human body, particularly in corpses, since he was a child.
The CAVEMEN FAMILY fashion him a bat cowl from the corpses of the fallen Bat Behemoths. Bruce Wayne Returns in April | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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.
And he wears that corpse-like complexion remarkably well. Friday list: On the eve of 'Eclipse,' a rundown of vampires who just want to have fun
Surely the reason that corpses take longer to decompose is simply that mortuaries are now air conditioned as a matter of course. Discourse.net: Drinking Formaldehyde
With nine precious muscoid corpses, more or less ornamented with a lovely fur trimming of Saprolegnia, I shall return to London to-morrow, and shall be ready in a short time, I hope, to furnish Salmon Disease wholesale, retail, or for exportation. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
Last fall brought another disaster, with the corpses of thousands of loons, mergansers, other ducks, and gulls washing up on Lake Erie's shores.
When I went to collect them, the sheep seemed barely conscious and the men looked like corpses.
Calmly, patiently, even avuncularly in "After the Hangover," I quote the obituaries for conservatism, pausing to note the obvious: The conservative corpse has arisen again. The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines
This leads King into an extended digression on Michelangelo's use of nudity, including the evidence that the artist had studied dissected corpses in great detail.
The corpse lay facedown in the mud, his bottle green coat twisted up around his chest, mud and blood spattering his buckskin breeches, a spent pistol clutched in his cold hand. Earl of Durkness
I averted my eyes from the nasty little corpse and my gaze fell on the several shreddy parts that were all that remained of my left tennis shoe. Asimov's Science Fiction
shroud the corpses
Only a jackstraw heap of corpses and stirring near-dead marked where they had been. Starchild Omnibus
I will vex the broad Aegean sea; and the beach of Myconus and the reefs round Delos, Scyros and Lemnos too, and the cliffs of Caphareus shall be strown with many a corpse. The Trojan Women
She had always told me not to fool around there none when I was a little kid, fur if I fell in there I'd be a corpse quicker'n scatt. Danny's Own Story
They talked vaginas, more vaginas, the radicalness of mommyblogging (from a dad’s perspective), the reasons why the road more medicated is sometimes the road best travelled, corpses in bathrooms, team building and swallowing cameras, how to be almost sort-of always sometimes Canadian, and – because it wouldn’t be a well-rounded week of guest posts if it didn’t come full circle back to genitalia – balls and porn. Getting Back To Business | Her Bad Mother
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.
Fool Moon - The mutilated corpse of mobster Johnny Marcone's bodyguard is discovered by the police, only the murder weapon appears to be fangs and claws. REVIEW: Wizard For Hire by Jim Butcher (SFBC Omnibus Collection)
The smell of the putrefying corpses which lay around the walls and in the doura crop, together with the unhealthy climate and the filth of the town, was a fertile source of disease. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
How do you write a decent obituary when the corpse-to-be is doing such a good job of it himself?
Plutarch writes about an epidemic of suicide by young women in the Greek city of Miletus that was stopped by the threat that their naked corpses would be dragged through the streets.
Most men expected to find a consumed kell,10 empty and bladder-like guts, livid and marbled lungs, and a withered pericardium in this exsuccous corpse: but some seemed too much to wonder that two lobes of his lungs adhered unto his side; for the like I have often found in bodies of no suspected consumptions or difficulty of respiration. Letter to a Friend
Autopsy, which they described as depicting a corpse on a steel gurney covered by a sheet with a hand sticking out wearing Jackson's signature sequined glove. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Then he threw the corpse over his shoulder and swarmed up the rockface with quite astonishing speed. Tin
A kind of mirage is over it, due to the distance of 5,000 miles -- a mirage behind which we are told to see a happy, rejuvenated country; and a mirage that hides beneath its shade the uncounted corpses of Petrograd; a mirage which conceals from our sight the horrors and catastrophes which communism has meant there, and beckons with a false allurement towards an example from which a nearer vision would make us retreat in horror. The Proper Limitations of State Interference
Nay doot ye'll thieve the winding claes from my corpse to make cloots for your snotty-nosed bairns, and where's my good brooch I said I wanted to be buried with? A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Stow stated that the victorious Earl of Surrey took the king's corpse - which he had embalmed - to a monastery in Surrey as a prize to show his monarch, Henry VIII.
the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse
The grisly-minded Rawlins doctor, John Osborne, took over the corpse, cut off the top of the skull, and flayed large sections of skin from the body, skin which he ordered tanned and made into a pair of shoes. Bird Cloud
The prospective corpse was not "heeled," as he was not in any feud just then, and was not expecting trouble, but he knew that he would have to act, and quickly, by his wits, or he would be shot, and he turned on the fellow and said carelessly: Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
As a penalty, his corpse was exhumed and beheaded.
Leave a lump of coal laying around, and it would rot like a corpse as microbes gobbled it up, and a cup of oil (which would be nice and tasty to us) would spoil like milk.
After our last agonal gasp, our corpse quickly cools. Mitochondrion
After having been on his feet twenty-four hours, in the exhausting work of mountain-climbing, Sir George began the reascent at the head of the relief party of six guides, to recover the corpse of his brother. A Tramp Abroad
These include the nitrogen-containing molecules called amines, which tend to smell of ammonia, rotting meat and corpses: "very stinky", says Rosenberg. New Scientist - Online News
I was at the winding of the corpse; and when the bluid was washed off, he was a bonny bouk of man’s body.” The Bride of Lammermoor
The corpse is quickly stripped and butchered, salted in curing brine, and left to dry in a smoke hut overnight.
Slayer "incited" the three young men, the suit says, with such lyrics as "I feel the urge the growing need/To f-- k this sinful corpse/My tasks complete the bitches (sic) soul/Lies raped in demonic lust. Heavy Metal: Music To Murder By?
In some cases the corpse has been flayed to display the muscles and internal organs.
During the subsequent obduction I saw most clearly how the corpse made all kinds of movements, and even after the section, during the dictation of the protocol, my imagination still seemed to see the corpse moving a hand or a foot. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
The corpses of the prisoners are transported directly to the crematorium.
Cremate a corpse
Forensic entomology, the study of the insects associated with human corpses, is used to establish the elapsed time since death in murder cases.
She believes that the ritual trappings were off by about ten feet, and what was summoned just outside the magic circle was the famous Noonday Demon, rumors of which her father and his corpselike pals had whispered after the slaughter of miserable afternoons at the House of Ko-Reck-Shun: the savage demon of the second rate, the demon of everyday evil. Nick Mamatas' Journal
In one funeral scene, not only does the coffin break open to reveal the corpse, but also a black crow begins ominously cawing.
I studied the nude, and at the Medical Institute we were made to dissect corpses.
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.
Master Chew detected the first location ( Location A ) of the corpse - bath water at the side walkway.
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.
If you did nothing but pursue the main battle missions in Fallout 3 , the game would be much less melancholy, because all you'd encounter would be sardonic rejoinders, brutal attacks and corpses to ransack for bad-ass weapons, precisely like every other shoot'em-up in history. Bleak Fallout 3 Dazzles With Great Depression
The woman was dead, a walking, talking pale corpse seemingly brought back to life by the omnipotent mystical forces of necromancy.
What we see on our teevees now is a reanimated corpse, powered by some kind of positronic brain programmed solely for evil. Think Progress » Rumsfeld: War Critics Being Manipulated By Zarqawi and Bin Laden’s ‘Media Committees’
When one of them died, his son, or his nearest relative, carefully washed the corpse in water impregnated with an astringent or aromatic substance, such as natron or some solution of fragrant gums, and then fumigated it with burning herbs and perfumes which were destined to overpower, at least temporarily, the odour of death. [ History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
The term corpse-run does sounds like a penalty while, IMO, item-recovery sounds a gameplay that is an added dimesion of a particular MMORPG. Enlightened Penalties
Or maybe Jack can pry a microchip from the still-warm corpse. The Clock is Ticking for Jack Bauer
Ahead lay an L-shaped pit with the fresh corpses of his fellow Polish officers.
On one side the North Atlantic, the metallic colour of frozen-to-death, smashes and grabs at the impertinence of human habitation with corpse-white fists.
She looked back down at the corpses of the dead guards and the bodies of the unconscious guards.
The character within dies and becomes a frozen corpse floating in space.
And there was ordained an horse bier; and so with an hundred torches ever brenning about the corpse of the queen, and ever Sir Launcelot with his eight fellows went about the horse bier, singing and reading many an holy orison, and frankincense upon the corpse incensed. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
Blood suck ghost, other name hemophagia corpse, in fable eternal life not old supernatural not dead biology.
O well," airily, "if you will have it, we were just coming to dig for corpses;" and she tossed her head with an independent air. The Rhodesian
Great public assassinations, political and religious butcheries, traverse this underground passage of civilization, and thrust their corpses there. Les Miserables
That corpses MIGHT begin to "thraw," if carelessly watched, was a prevalent superstition. A Collection of Ballads
Send your corpse on a tour of museums 'round the world with plastination, developed by German scientist Gunther von Hagens.
The shrouds used to cover the faces of the dead were often decayed by bacteria in the mouth, revealing the corpse's teeth, and vampires became known as shroud-eaters. The Financial Express
Tokugawa dynasty, conveyed the corpse of his father, Iyeyasu, in Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
January 25th, 2008 at 2: 44 pm jokerswild says: it is like a fuckin mung-fest over there today. if it’s not heath ledger’s corpse it’s britney’s. whadayamean she’s not dead? are you sure? USA VS. NEW ZEALAND IN ‘WHO’S STUPIDER’
With sharpened scythes and pitchforks, with pointed staves and heavy truncheons and ironshod clubs, they killed the miserable Germans all day long, and the line of escape was marked along the Beauvoisine road by corpses almost to The Story of Rouen
Leaves pirouetted through a gap between buildings, brown-husk corpses driven by invisible wind. The Last Liverbeast « A Fly in Amber
The Cyrenaics make fun of the Epicurean theory by saying that this state of being free of desires and pain is the condition of a corpse.
If she had gone to ICS with her suspicions after Rampart External Security failed to investigate the testudinal Haluk corpse found on Cravat, the Secretariat would certainly have declined jurisdiction and passed the buck to SXA. Perseus Spur
When the moodir saw her in her little room, with her babe and the corpse of her husband, he was much moved, and did what he could for her comfort. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II.
First of all, the whole scene was just creepy, beginning with the corpse-like assassin telling Catelyn Michelle Fairley, You're not supposed to be here. Game of Thrones' Most Chilling Moment: A Dagger in the Night
the hastily buried corpses
Seeking clues, the Black Panther returns to the scene of yet another earlier murder, in a nearby cemetery and is immediately attacked by the corpselike minions of Baron Macabre. Retro-View: Jungle Action Featuring The Black Panther #10 (Marvel Comics)
And in 1996 when Paddy said that Parliament had become "A rotten mess.a dishevelled, disfigured old corpse of what was once called the Mother of Parliaments. The Economist: Daily news and views
If they died by violent hands, and were thrust into their urns, these bones become considerable, and some old philosophers would honour them, whose souls they conceived most pure, which were thus snatched from their bodies, and to retain a stronger propension unto them; whereas they weariedly left a languishing corpse and with faint desires of reunion. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
Bonzes march in front, dressed in robes of black gauze, having much the appearance of Catholic priests; the principal object of interest of the procession, the corpse, comes last, laid in a sort of little closed palanquin, which is daintily pretty. The French Immortals Series — Complete
Come 9pm it is hard to avoid a body being dissected or a corpse in a state of decomposition.
Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form. Nevermore
_ -- no consecrated one, but one dug ready to receive a corpse; _dug, in savage threatening of slaughter, for the reception of one yet living_ -- the son of the noble owner of that ancient domain -- dug in sight of his father's house, in his own park, by wretches who have warned him to prepare to fill that grave in October! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
On Mondays her hair is crumpled and unbrushed, she is slumped in her seat (unlike her usual ramrod posture), and she looks paler than a corpse in a coffin.
Whenever a contractor digs into Berlin at a building site, he may dig up an unexploded bomb, exhume corpses, or liberate the fear trapped in a buried air raid shelter.
Pears … pallid corpselike mounds with no flavor. (shudder) And then in some ponderously jiggling, translucent green or orange blob reminiscent of a bad scifi B movie. Weird Foods « Colleen Anderson
In some of the gravest war-crime charges to arise from the Afghan conflict, five soldiers have been accused of killing unarmed Afghan men, apparently for sport, and desecrating their corpses. Brigade's strategy: 'Strike and destroy'
When an army of corpses animated by cogwork rises from the dark waters of the rive Reine and threatens to upset the balance of power in Veridon, Jacob Burn must discover who is behind this undead atrocity before the city comes crashing down around him. Tim Akers Sequel and 'Heart of Veridon' review
Bond's triumph over Leiter in Diamonds — he tells him where to look inside a corpse for hidden stones — is perhaps an instance of British "guts" rather than British anality. Bottoms Up
The ancients knew the art of spinning amianthus and weaving it into incombustible cloth in which the corpses of important people were burned.
“TheBinarySurfer” … The only difference between a cat and a dog is, in extremis, that your corpse will feed the cat for longer! on March 24, 2008 at 1: 22 pm | Reply Dave H. Fava Beans And A Nice Chianti « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Sugimoto's photographs suggest that that one is fated to become either a faultless corpse or a bodiless ghost.
Scenes in the film show pristine cherry blossoms, wrecked cemeteries and ghostlike policemen searching for corpses. Three Ways of Looking at a Disaster
Here and there, dead rats and other corpses float on the scum.
Police discovered the skeletal remains of a corpse buried near the river.
I went to pull the biggest froglet and found a corpse – a few days later I lost what I thought was the female of the pair. Elephants
Apparently the technique was to encase the body in gypsum so that when it decayed it left a perfect cast of the corpse behind. Roman ghost stories
The stench emanating from the cankerous sores, feces, urine, and rotting corpses will be immense, but like their brethren pigs who also have highly developed senses of smell, the dogs will simply need to live with the fetid air and pneumonia they develop. Meat's Meat....So Let's Eat
The image of the body “lying by myself quiet / as the light lies on these walls, this bed, these hands,” is almost corpse-like, a body prepared for burial. History of a Suicide
In italian, the word mummia pl. mummie stands for dead corpse who got "mummified" and didn't become skeleton. Zora la Vampira (Vampires vs. Mummies, Pt. II)
The make-up people excelled themselves with lots of dirty fingernails and a welter of warts, wens and rotten corpses.
Beside her the pathetic corpse of the servant, the garotte cord still round his scrawny neck.
The corpse had been laid out on a marble slab.
I realized today that, all week, I've been referring to the dead I've seen as bodies and corpses.
The corpse lay face down in a pool of blood.
Spooky corpse-like kids in period costumes pop out at the first available opportunity.
cere a corpse
Although the nine stages are treated in many Buddhist sutras, no other pictorial examples illustrating the complete sequence of the decaying corpse have survived in other Asian countries.
Although it's dressing the corpse in borrowed cerements, I have to say this is almost a convincing reason to re-read "The Outsider. Kenneth Hite's Journal
If he follows the Kevin Federline playbook, we can expect to see him playing himself in a self-deprecatory Super Bowl ad, guest starring as an impending corpse on a CBS cop show, and emerging as the surprisingly sane parent after Kate goes on a head-shaving bender. 'Kate Plus Eight': What will Jon Gosselin do now? | EW.com
The corpse pose is one posture that helps the body to relax completely and is often used as a relaxation exercise. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 642
OMG–I totally thought that was a corpse converted to adipocere. Regretsy – Button Honey
In Romanian folklore it was thought that a bat, insect or other flying creature that passed over a corpse, could turn it into a revenant (a corpse that returns from the grave).
She was more lively than the first corpse, for he had scarcely taken any of the clay away from about her, when she sat up and began to cry, Ho, you bodach (clown)! Teig O’Kane and the Corpse
The corpse of the rebel Moderatus rolled to and fro, and somehow the amulet had slid into the rocking skull cup.
Robert Pattinson stinks like a diarrhetic tramp in a house of animal corpses, and he still gets more girls than you. Robert Pattinson Wants You All To Know That He Doesn’t Stink
One was a short man with bushy eyebrows, another looked like a corpse and, oddly, the third was a man in fishnets.
Oh, Im wishing I had wan of them fornenst me this minute and Id beat him with my fists till hed be a bloody corpse! Act IV. Anna Christie
We went about to put everything in order and lay the poor corpse in decency, and when we started to pull off his veldschoen, as I hope to die in my bed, there was a little drop of blood still wet on the toe. Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories
Our billet is a village with shell-scarred trees lining its streets, and grass peeping over its fallen masonry, a few inn signs still swing and look like corpses hanging; at night they creak as if in agony. The Red Horizon
Zoroastrian daffiest doctrine is leaving corpses out for the vultures. Pharyngula
The angry residents, definitely frustrated with the law enforcement approach to their distress calls, after slaughtering the bandits, even necklaced the corpses with tyres so that they could torch them.
The corpse is washed, wrapped in a shroud, carried to the cemetery by a group of mourners, and buried in a tomb.
Annette, prepared the corpse for interment; and, having wrapt it in cerements, and covered it with a winding-sheet, they watched beside it, till past midnight, when they heard the approaching footsteps of the men, who were to lay it in its earthy bed. The Mysteries of Udolpho

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