The cause of death is the destruction of some important part of the machine, which prevents it from running longer; a corpse is a broken clock, and the departure of the soul comes only as a result of death.

Here I lived in darkness and misery until my provisions were exhausted, but just as I was nearly dead from starvation the rock was rolled away overhead and I saw that a bier was being lowered into the cavern, and that the corpse upon it was a man.

"Well, a corpse is a natural thing; but this was the dreadfullest sight I ever sid.

With the corpse came also several seamen, wounded by the same shell.

The Brahmin's corpse should be the stepping-stone to higher things and the place where people knew a Somali from a Negro.

But they was all covered with mangy black plumes and tassels and thingsyou know, the way they rig 'em up when the corpse is takin' his last drive.

The corpses of the neritic animals and of those that swim between the two waters are the direct or indirect sustenance of the abyssal fauna.

But corpse, a dead body, is an English word, pronounced k~orps, and making the plural in two syllables, corpses.

"So, of course, I know then that the corpse is a dead soldier, and I decides to see him through until he's made a safe landing somewhere.

The four wheels passed back and forth over the dead men, cutting them, carving them, slashing them, till the five corpses were a score of stumps rolling across the deck; the heads of the dead men seemed to cry out; streams of blood curled over the deck with the rolling of the vessel; the planks, damaged in several places, began to gape open.

After the corpses have remained a certain time exposed, they are taken down and burned.

And may his corpse be the physician's stage, Which play'd upon stands not to honour'd age!

The corpses were merely three inflated wine-skins, and I observed that they were cut in the very spots in which I thought I had wounded the robbers.

But the corpse was the bailiff's property, till his claim was paid, and nought but the money would soften the iron capturer.