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.

The stone remains as a memorial even though his body was later disinterred and reburied in Hanover, Germany, the grave being marked with a marble copy of his 1929 sculpture Die Herbstzeitlose.

With the approval of Harold's former councillors, his body was disinterred from its place of honour at Westminster and publicly beheaded.

Edward's body lay at Wareham for a year before being disinterred.

According to the life of Oswald, Edward's body was found to be incorrupt when it was disinterred ( which was taken as a miraculous sign ).

During the French Revolution he was disinterred from his tomb, his body being desecrated and thrown into a common grave.

Antioch historian Robert Straker wrote that Mann had been “ crucified by crusading sectarians .” Ralph Waldo Emerson lamented “ what seems the fatal waste of labor and life at Antioch .” Mann ’ s wife, who wrote in anguish that " the blood of martyrdom waters the spot ," later disinterred his body from Yellow Springs.

His body lay in state at Greenwich and after a public funeral was buried in Henry VII's chapel at Westminster Abbey, to be disinterred at the Restoration.

In this spot his body rested until 28 October 1876, when a committee disinterred his remains and removed them to his final resting place in the Canton Corner Cemetery.

When he was declared bankrupt the next year, he disinterred the body in September 1875 and was arrested attempting to rebury it.

As a result her body was disinterred in December 1631 and transported in a golden casket escorted by her son Shah Shuja and the head lady in waiting of the deceased Empress back to Agra.

The Spanish soldiers in the new garrison disinterred and burned Brouwer's body.

King Harold I " Harefoot " was buried here in March 1040 after his body was disinterred by his briefly usurped brother Harthacnut, and thrown into the marshes bordering the Thames.

When the body was disinterred, the jewel was found in the faithful man's stomach.

The Council was headed by the Bishop of Sens and ordered the body of Amalric of Chartres to be disinterred and burned, David's writings to be burned, and forbade reading Aristotle's works on natural philosophy.

In the 1960s, the embalmed body of a mediaeval cat was disinterred from where it was buried under the bell tower.

As a result Lawrence's body was disinterred in 1997 at taxpayers ' expense and moved to California.

When his body was disinterred, a spring miraculously appeared where Saint Kenelm had lain, as in the Winchcombe version, which is now followed faithfully once more.

In an interesting postscript, Tewodros II is said to have disbelieved that Haile Melekot was really dead and demanded that his body be disinterred.

When the Arabs took Cyprus, Spyridon's body was disinterred and taken to Constantinople.

Antônio Conselheiro's body was disinterred, and his head was cut off and taken triumphantly to the province's capital and according to Peter Robb ( A Death in Brazil ) " was taken to the Medical Faculty of Bahia to be studied for abnormalities ( Robb, 2004: 208 ).

In 1903, at the insistence of the Gaelic Leagues of America, and with the approval of the acting President of Maynooth, O ' Growney's body was disinterred, brought back to Ireland and buried in the cemetery in the grounds of St Patrick's College, Maynooth.

" She was initially buried on the plantation, but later that year her body was disinterred and moved to Indiana to be reburied.

* Jean Lannes ( 1769 – 1809 ), Marshal of France ( his heart only, the body is in the Pantheon )

The body that would become the Senate was established in 1809, when the Diet of Porvoo was requested to, and drew up regulations for a Government Council.

He was a member of the Yale Corporation, the University's governing body, from 1809 to 1818 and was its Secretary from 1818 to 1846.