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.

Here's the picture we want to leave for the fuzz -- whenever the body gets found.

Soon after 10 A.M., when police reached the 1-1/2-story brick home in the Franklin Manor section, 15 miles south of here on the bay, in response to a call from the Dresbach's other son, Lee, 14, they found Mrs. Dresbach's body on the first-floor bedroom floor.

The density of voltage-gated sodium channels is much higher here than is found in the adjacent cell body, excepting the axon hillock.

All Israel and Judah flocked to his side, and David, attended only by the Cherethites and Pelethites and his former body guard that had followed him from Gath, found it expedient to flee.

Although there is no cliff at the site where his body was found there is a very steep rocky embankment-which would have been fatal in the dark.

The BCR is only found on the surface of B cells and facilitates the activation of these cells and their subsequent differentiation into either antibody factories called plasma cells, or memory B cells that will survive in the body and remember that same antigen so the B cells can respond faster upon future exposure.

While the scientific community was once divided between supporters of the Big Bang and those of alternative cosmological models, most scientists became convinced that some version of the Big Bang scenario best fit observations after the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964, and especially when its spectrum ( i. e., the amount of radiation measured at each wavelength ) was found to match that of thermal radiation from a black body.

As his body slowly failed, Bartók found more creative energy, and he produced a final set of masterpieces, partly thanks to the violinist Joseph Szigeti and the conductor Fritz Reiner ( Reiner had been Bartók's friend and champion since his days as Bartók's student at the Royal Academy ).

As indicated by body mass, weights increase in birds found further north, as corresponds to Bergmann's rule.

Concordant with the above understanding, any assertion about the motion of a body boils down to a description over time in which the body under consideration is at t < sub > 1 </ sub > found in the vicinity of one group of " landmark " bodies and at some t < sub > 2 </ sub > is found in the vicinity of some other " landmark " body or bodies.

Among the evidence presented to the tribunal were the results of paraffin tests, used to identify lead residues from firing weapons, and that nail bombs had been found on the body of one of those killed.

... Just yesterday, one body part was found under two crossed logs.

In 2002, Baldursdottir and his coworkers found that in the hospital, more comatose patients survived after induced hypothermia than patients that remained at normal body temperature.

The legend relates that Childe left a note of some sort saying that whoever found and buried his body would inherit his lands at Plymstock.

His body was found by the monks of Tavistock Abbey, who started to carry it back.

Chakras correspond to vital points in the physical body but are generally understood as being part of the " subtle body " which cannot be found through autopsy.

While there is not a large body of academic work examining the relationship, Hironaka's statistical study found a correlation that suggests that every major international anti-secessionist declaration increased the number of ongoing civil wars by + 10 %, or a total + 114 % from 1945 to 1997.

Captain America is purportedly laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery, but Tony Stark ( Iron Man ) and others have actually returned Rogers ' body to the Arctic where Rogers had been found years before.

* 1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, northwest England

Lindow Man, also known as Lindow II and ( in jest ) as Pete Marsh, is the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss near Wilmslow in Cheshire, North West England.

Lindow Man is not the only bog body to have been found in the moss ; Lindow Woman was discovered the year before, and other body parts have also been recovered.

As the best preserved bog body found in Britain, its discovery caused a media sensation.

The discovery of Lindow Man marked the first well-preserved bog body discovered in Britain ; its condition was comparable to that of Grauballe Man and Tollund Man from Denmark.

According to Brothwell, it is one of the most complex examples of " overkill " in a bog body, and possibly has ritual meaning as it was " extravagant " for a straightforward murder.

He was found in 1950 buried in a peat bog on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, which preserved his body.

Such a find is known as a bog body.

Twelve years prior to Tollund Man's discovery, another bog body, Elling Woman was discovered in the same bog

Scientists know that this moss was formed in Danish peat bogs in the early Iron Age, therefore, the body was suspected to have been placed in the bog more than 2, 000 years ago during the early Iron Age.

It is likely that the body had shrunk in the bog.

* From 1835 to 1977 it was believed that Harald ordered the death of Haraldskær Woman, a bog body thought to be Gunnhild, Mother of Kings until radiocarbon dating proved otherwise.

( See Tollund Man for one of the most famous examples of a bog body ).

Researchers discovered that conservation also required the body to be placed in the bog during the winter or early spring when the water temperature is cold — i. e., less than 4 ° C ( 40 ° F ).

Modern experimenters have been able to mimic bog conditions in the laboratory and successfully demonstrate the preservation process, albeit over shorter time frames than the 2, 500 years that Haraldskær Woman's body has survived.

As a result, many specimens have been effectively destroyed, such as the first bog body from Husbäke.

In some cases the individual had been beheaded, and in the case of the Osterby Head found at Kohlmoor, near to Osterby, Germany in 1948, the head had been deposited in the bog without its body.

The oldest known bog body is that of the Koelbjerg Woman who was found in Denmark, and has been dated to around 8000 BCE during the Stone Age.

Records of such finds go back as far as the 17th century, and in 1640 a bog body was discovered at Shalkholz Fen in Holstein, Germany.

The first more fully documented account of discovery of a bog body was at a peat bog on Drumkeragh Mountain in County Down, Ireland ; it was published by Elizabeth Rawdon, Countess of Moira, the wife of the local landowner.