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Little curved towers and pinnacles, with outlines suggestive of leaping flames, predominate; while the body of the building is in the form of a circle.
They threw the doctor's body in the surf.
Amongst his few small gifts and bequests was "£6 to be divided among the six poor men named by the assistant who shall carry my body to the grave; for I particularly desire that there be no hearse, no coach, no escutcheon, no pomp".
We enter a new worldthe under-world of water, and things that glide and swim; of sea-grasses and currents; of flowing waves that lap about the body with a cool chill; of palpitating color, that, at great depths, becomes a sort of darkness; of sea-beds of shell and sand, and bits of scattered wreckage; of ooze and tangled sea-plants, dusky shapes, and fan-like fins.
The bearers entered with the stretcher, placed the body on it, and carried it away.
Oh, take not this dear Body from my Arms, For if you do, my Soul will follow it.
You, let us say, being a baron (and therefore noble!) have a mind to a certain other baron's castle, or wife, or both(the which is more usual) wherefore ye come to me, who am but a plain bowman knowing nought of the case, and you chaffer with me for the use of this my body for so much money, and thereafter I shoot my best on thy behalf as in mine honour bound.
As soon as twins were born, they would break the babies' backs and stuff the little bodies into a jar made out of a big gourd.
I told all I knewhow Parks had announced a man's arrival, how Vantine and I had come downstairs together, how Vantine had called me, and finally how Parks had identified the body as that of the strange caller.
Was the collapsed body at his feet his father's?
That acid substances acted upon our bodies by a peculiar set of nerves, or through some medium of their own, was evident from this, that they set the teeth on edge, though these, from their hard and bony nature, are insensible to the touch.
The officer takes a piece of whipcord and makes a double running knot: he ties one noose round the wrist of the prisoner, whose hand is then placed in his trousers pocket, the cord is lashed round the body like a belt, and brought back and slipped through the noose again.
I didn't think that my nerves would be in a fit state to tell the police how I found the body without betraying to them that I knew something about it; and I couldn't bear to think of Sir Horace's body lying neglected all alone in that empty house till the following daythough I kept that reason to myself.
"I wonder where that infernal ledge goes to?" said Inspector Chippenfield, vainly twisting his neck and protruding his body through the window to a dangerous extent to see round the corner of the building.
When we lifted the body out of its resting-place, something beside withered flowers slid from her breast and fell at our feet.
He flattened his body against a friendly pine and listened.
The body under that coating, that shroud of dust, was neither more nor less than my own dead shell.
But the soldiers said unto each other, "Is it not better that we should have body than brains, and had we not better take unto ourselves the fleshpots?"
Nicholas lurched his body over the brink, his arms outstretched, straining farther, farther yet, till it seemed as if only the counterweight of the rest of the population at the other end of the canvas prevented his joining the Boy in the hole.
" The man was slightly built, so that Simmonds and Goldberger raised the body between them without difficulty and placed it on the couch.
In every case the garments had been stripped from the bodies before burial, so that there was absolutely no means of identification.
The Queen had shut herself up in a sort of mausoleum built to receive her body after death, which was not approachable by any door; and it was given out that she was really dead.
Mike's hand, stretched out from his body towards his friend, now again enjoined silence.
Then they carried Sharkey to the gun and they triced him sitting over the port-hole, with his body about a foot from the muzzle.
It is a well known fact, that many dreams originate in the impressions made in the body during sleep; and they consist of analogous images or such as are associated with sensations that would arise from these impressions, during a waking state.