Sit here and eat this carrion?" and he looked disgustedly at the mess of unsavory beef on the table, which was, to tell the truth, most odoriferous.

now am I minded to kill thee here and now, unarmed though ye be, and cast thy carrion to the dogsspeak!"

It is doubtless the economy of nature to have the scavengers by to clean up the carrion, but a wolf at the throat would be a shorter agony than the long stalking and sometime perchings of these loathsome watchers.

The monstrous and precipitous walls of the cañon clamored back a fiendish mockery of echoes which seemed to call for the prowlers of the air to arrive quickly and devour their carrion.

They dispute carrion with wolves and vultures.

And sent out a raven for to have tidings, and when he was gone he returned no more again, for peradventure she found some dead carrion of a beast swimming on the water, and lighted thereon to feed her and was left there.

Where shall I hide my carrion from the sun?

" "Come away and leave that carrion."

"It is I, the griffin, son of a griffin, who lets no carrion escape him.

Then I will aid them in making carrion of you.

It is perfectly harmless, never attacking even the smallest living animal, and seems always to prefer carrion when in a state of putrefaction.

He wiped his sword on his sister's curtains, and was about to withdraw, when Aurelia again spoke: "Ere thou departest, brother, have the goodness to ring the bell, and desire the menials to remove this carrion from my apartment.

The smell of rotting carrion was only part of it.

And for the last time I heard the blood-hounds leap and the pattering of their eager feet upon the barriers as they leaped up scenting the Duke's carrion.

"Eagles and vultures smell not the carrion so readily as priests and preachers smell out the rich: a rich man is their friend and should a sickness strike him down, he must make them presents to the loss of his relations.

The gentlemen were hungry; ..." but the fair young man unreasonably replied, "Then let them eat thee since they can stomach carrion," and for the moment the subject droppedlargely because the fair young man was supposed always to carry a revolver, which was not a habit of his good colleagues.

"We shall have done with Love, and Death be king And turn our nimble bodies carrion, Our red lips dusty;yet our live lips cling Despite that age-long severance and are one Despite the grave and the vain grief thereof, Which we will baffle, if in Death's domain

Now, messieurs, bind these carrion and convey them whither I have directed you.

Directly it touched the ground, it vomited carrion and died.