Then we stripped the mask with its bristle of long whiskers, took the gall, and dragged the carcass into the surf where it was devoured by fish.

They help keep the environment clean by eating the carcasses that would otherwise rot.

In the former case, having killed one of God's and your own oxen, you strip off its hide,because that is the common trophy, and, moreover, you have heard that it may be sold for moccasins,cut a steak from its haunches, and leave the huge carcass to smell to heaven for you.

When I recovered my senses Ergimo was kneeling beside me pouring down my throat the contents of a small phial; and as I lifted my head and looked around, I saw the enormous carcass from under which I had been dragged lying dead almost within reach of my hand.

This is just what Anti-Slavery Societies are doing; they are taking away the stone from the mouth of the tomb of slavery, where lies the putrid carcass of our brother.

Later we found the carcass of a yearling, with two eagles, not to mention ravens and magpies, feeding on it; but I could not tell whether they had themselves killed the yearling or not.

A prolonged shriek of growing fright and anguish came slowly toward themthe cry of a wheelbarrow carrying the great carcass of a pig, waxy white and waxy red, like an image from a chamber of horrors.

If he had gone as far as he ought to you wouldn't be laying therethey'd just about now be hiding your dirty carcass under six feet of 'dobe!'" Sabota mumbled some guttural, unintelligible reply.

While one day engaged on this duty, I passed a carcass on which some pariah dogs were making a meal.

The next day the griffin took away the carcass of the horse, and the young girl departed also.

When I opened them, my friends of our village were placing the prepared carcasses of pigs on the banana-trunks, with yams, ti-roots and taro.

After taking the heart, liver and one of the hind quarters of the buck Mukoki drew a long rope of babeesh from his pack, tied one end of it around the animal's neck, flung the other end over a near limb, and with his companion's assistance hoisted the carcass until it was clear of the ground.

His nostrils were filled with the rich aroma of the roasting caribou, and as he crouched down, still with that wolfish caution that Gray Wolf had taught him, men with long poles brought the huge carcasses crashing down upon the melting snow about the fires.

If this does not improve matters we must hang more carcasses in the rigging.

The burrowing owl will generally be seen where dogs congregate, and wherever the ground is undermined his snakeship is apt to be found; but rest assured there is some lively 'scattering' to get out of his way if he draws his slimy carcass into their burrows.

This was true, for cutting up a buffalo carcass with no other instrument than a large knife is no easy matter.

Having covered the carcass well over with branches to protect it from the vultures, I returned to camp, and, inspanning my wagons, took it up on the march.

At last she was where she could reach out and touch the swinging carcass.

'Aye,' says Roger, 'and my lord Beltane saved thy carcass and my soul.'

Whilst thus held, a pack of hungry wolves came that way and devoured the carcass of the moose before his eyes.

" "Yes, but" Aunt Dolcey paused, holding the carcass of the chicken in her hands, and faced her.

I have kept his carcass these seven days; to serve as a pattern.

A sheep or a goat or some other animal is sacrificed and placed in the cage for bait and the door is rigged so that it will remain open in an inviting manner until the tiger enters and lifts the carcass from the lever.

We helped him to load the carcass of the deer on the back of his donkey, and saw him move off lazily towards home.

For the last five-and-twenty years naturalists in Europe have been striving to obtain the carcass of the impregnated female Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, for the purpose of ascertaining its mode of gestation, but without success; for it is by dissection alone that the hitherto doubtful and disputed point concerning the anomalous and paradoxical manner of bring forth and rearing its young can be satisfactorily demonstrated.