Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.

The terrible power of a gun, the thing that blasted the soul out of a living body, man or beast, was one he never wanted to lose.

The sun was noon high and Matsuo perspired until his body was dripping.

In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

The lad's once superb body was a mass of scars and welts.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

Its ribs showed, it was a yellow nondescript color, it suffered from a variety of sores, hair had scabbed off its body in patches.

It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed.

He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social, cultural, or literary traditions than he was within the traditions -- or possibly the regulations -- governing his tenure in the post office at Oxford, Mississippi, thirty-five years ago.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

Then there was Mark Howe and there was Henry Dwight Sedgwick, an accomplished man of letters who wrote in the spirit of Montaigne and produced in the end a formidable body of work.

The Senate to him was not the `` upper body '' and he corrected those who said he served `` under '' the president.

But the internationalists have taken over the governing body of the bar, and when the lads met in St. Louis, it was not to grumble about the humidity but to vote unanimously that the United Nations was scarcely less than wonderful, despite an imperfection here and there.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

And in England, after the Restoration, the body of Cromwell was disinterred and hanged at Tyburn.

The head was then fixed on a pole at Westminster, and the rest of the body was buried under the gallows.

The subject he liked most was the female body, which he painted in every state -- naked, half-dressed, muffled to the ears, sitting primly in a chair, lying tauntingly on a bed or locked in an embrace.

He was aware of insistent inner beatings, as if prisoners within sought release from his rigid body.

She grasped the chair arms and brought her thin body upright, like a bird alert for flight.

He came into the bag with his body and Mike Deegan brought the ball down full in his face.

Childebert had her body brought to Paris where she was buried alongside her father Clovis.

Cassandra was also the first to see the body of her brother Hector being brought back to the city.

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Marcian had the bishops deposed by Dioscorus returned to their dioceses and had the body of Flavian brought to the capital to be buried honorably.

On March 30, his body was brought by caisson to the United States Capitol, where he lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda.

In general, obesity is not a condition maintained by overeating ; obesity is a condition brought about and maintained by eating more calories than the body uses, consistently.

Following his death, Thomas ' body was brought back to Wales for burial in the village churchyard at Laugharne.

In October her body was brought from Kyūshū by sea to Port Naniwa-zu ( today Osaka city ); and her state funeral was held in early November.

The remaining three wounded men were brought before the Mexican general, who allowed them to return to France as an honor guard for the body of Captain Danjou.

Exterior changes brought an overall smoother body and a " twin-kidney " grille — a Commodore styling trait which remained until the 2002 VY model.

Captain Charles Fryatt lived in Harwich ; his body was brought back from Belgium in 1919 and he was buried at Dovercourt.

His body was brought back from Rome for interment at the Basilica of Santa Croce, fulfilling the maestro's last request to be buried in his beloved Florence.

The colony of New Brunswick soon followed on May 1848 when Lieutenant Governor Edmund Walker Head brought in a more balanced representation of Members of the Legislative Assembly to the Executive Council and ceded more powers to that body.

The usual method is called " present arms "; the rifle is brought to the vertical, muzzle up, in front of center of the chest with the trigger away from the body.

When the rifle is being carried on the shoulder, a similar gesture is used in which the flattened free hand is brought across the body to touch the rifle near the rear of the receiver.

Some torts may have a public elementfor example, public nuisanceand sometimes actions in tort will be brought by a public body.

After Telegonus realized he had killed his father, he brought the body to his mother Circe, along with Telemachus and Penelope.

The find was reported to the police on Tuesday May 8, 1950 and they were baffled by the body, and in an attempt to identify the time of death, they brought in archaeology professor P. V. Glob.

Summing up, he stated that in all these tests, the use of ebonite plates covered with copper or mixtures of copper and tin was less satisfactory than the use of filings ; with the plates, he was unable to obtain the initial resistance of the body after the action of the spark or of the current, while with the tubes and filings, the resistance could be brought back to its normal value by striking a few sharp blows on the support of the tube.

In mid flight they tuck their arms and legs close to the body ; they are then brought out at the last second to grab the branch.

Clotho, one of the three Fates, ordered by Zeus, brought the boy to life again ( she collected the parts of the body and boiled them in a sacred cauldron ), rebuilding his shoulder with one wrought of ivory made by Hephaestus and presented by Demeter.

His corpse was brought into the Duke's camp, and William gave it for burial to William, surnamed Malet, and not to Harold's mother, who offered for the body of her beloved son its weight in gold.

Beiderbecke's mother and brother took the train to New York and brought his body home to Davenport.