One of the last
corpses to pass him was still clothed in the white robe of a Wieroo, blood-stained over the headless neck that it concealed.
Within a week the peasants who came with empty carts to carry off plunder were stopped by the authorities and made to cart the
corpses out of the town.
Fellow-creators, Zarathustra seeketh; fellow-reapers and fellow-rejoicers, Zarathustra seeketh: what hath he to do with herds and herdsmen and
corpses!
Greedy for carrion, and sure that this must be a fresh
corpse, the bird swooped down upon the boy.
With precaution I would go up the side of my own particular
corpse, and would feel her as cold as ice itself and as slippery under my feet.
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.
On the following morning it was seen that one of the
corpses had been partially devoured.
In two minutes he had got it all ciphered out, and wasn't only just going to find the corpse--no, he was going to get on the track of that murderer and hunt HIM down, too; and not only that, but he was going to stick to him till-- "Well," I says, "you better find the
corpse first; I reckon that's a-plenty for to-day.
The
corpse fell on the floor, but the man only redoubled his blows, till at length it occurred to him it was odd that the thief should lie so still and make no resistance.
As many of the burghers had brought spades with them, supposing that they might possibly be called upon to disinter a
corpse, the drain was easily and speedily effected; and no sooner was the bottom visible, than right in the middle of the mud that remained was discovered a black silk velvet waistcoat, which nearly every one present immediately recognized as the property of Mr.
Indeed, I shouldn't have discovered that he had been there, except for the disarrangement of the drapery about the
corpse's face, and for observing on the floor a curl of light hair, fastened with a silver thread; which, on examination, I ascertained to have been taken from a locket hung round Catherine's neck.
Go, sir, go!" But Morrel remained motionless; he could not detach his eyes from that disordered bed, and the pale
corpse of the young girl who was lying on it.