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.

Finding it true that he was not inside, the deputies returned to the first house and tore holes through the side and the roof until they could see a body on the bed covered by a blanket.

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.

His body was returned and laid to rest in the Abbey at Saint Gilles.

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.

Belgian Forces identity tags are, like the Canadian and Norwegian, designed to be broken in two in case of fatality ; the lower half is returned to Belgian Defence tail, while the upper half remains on the body.

Canadian Forces identity discs ( abbreviated " I discs ") are designed to be broken in two in the case of fatality ; the lower half is returned to National Defence Headquarters with the member's personal documents, while the upper half remains on the body.

Military of the Netherlands identity tags, like the Canadian and Norwegian ones, are designed to be broken in two in case of a fatality ; the lower end is returned to Dutch Defence Headquarters, while the upper half remains on the body.

In case the soldier died, the frame was left with his body, while the lid was returned to his unit together with a note on his death.

On March 31, Eisenhower's body was returned to the National Cathedral, where he was given an Episcopal Church funeral service.

Thomas died on 9 November 1953 and his body was returned to Wales where he was buried at the village churchyard in Laugharne.

However, it was also important that the body of the deceased be preserved, as the Egyptians believed that the ba returned to its body each night to receive new life, before emerging in the morning as an akh.

The body of this message is typically the requested resource, although an error message or other information may also be returned.

Originally, the two ideas of immortality and resurrection were different but in rabbinic thought they are combined: the soul departs from the body at death but is returned to it at the resurrection.

Servants returned to bury her body but the dogs had devoured everything but her hands, feet and skull.

So that year his body was cremated, the ashes returned to the Žižka Monument and placed in a sarcophagus.

Livy also says that she took a part of her father's body, and his blood, and returned with it to her own and her husband's household gods, and that by the end of her journey she was, herself, covered in the blood.

Early tests at different laboratories returned conflicting dates for the body ; later tests suggested a date between 2 BC and 119 AD.

Merleau-Ponty demonstrates a corporeity of consciousness as much as an intentionality of the body, and so stands in contrast with the dualist ontology of mind and body in René Descartes, a philosopher to whom Merleau-Ponty continually returned, despite the important differences that separate them.

NDEs include one or more of the following experiences: a sense of being dead ; an out-of-body experience ; a sensation of floating above one's body and seeing the surrounding area ; a sense of overwhelming love and peace ; a sensation of moving upwards through a tunnel or narrow passageway ; meeting deceased relatives or spiritual figures ; encountering a being of light, or a light ; experiencing a life review ; reaching a border or boundary ; and a feeling of being returned to the body, often accompanied by reluctance.

John Thompson also died outside Canada, at Windsor Castle, where Queen Victoria permitted his lying-in-state before his body was returned to Canada for a state funeral in Halifax.

It was also in 1840 that the British government acceded to a French request for Napoleon ’ s body to be returned to France in what became known as the retour des cendres.

The Métis brought his body to Saint-Vital, his mother's home, now the Riel House National Historic Site, and then interred at the Saint-Boniface Basilica in Manitoba, his birthplace, for burial.

His body was taken to nearby Fort Yates for burial, but in 1953, his remains were possibly exhumed and reburied near Mobridge, South Dakota, by his Lakota family, who wanted his body to be nearer to his birthplace.

Reynolds ' body was immediately transported from Gettysburg to Taneytown, Maryland, and then to his birthplace, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he was buried on July 4, 1863.

On what would have been his twenty-fifth birthday, his body was returned to his birthplace for burial.

His mummified body now rests in a mausoleum in his birthplace of Ambato.

People marked Reagan's death by leaving tributes and condolences at U. S. embassies and consulates overseas, as well as at locales around the country significant to Reagan's life, including his presidential library, his birthplace in Tampico, Illinois, the funeral home where his body was taken after he died, and the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house in Eureka, Illinois.

After his premature death in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, at the age of 55 ( amid suggestions of murder that led to the suicide of his housekeeper, Hannah Hewitt ), Baker's body was returned to his birthplace and buried in close proximity to the famous Midlands landscape artist David Cox at St. Peter's Church in Harborne, Birmingham.