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 figures had their separate body parts manufactured by different workshops that were later assembled to completion.

During the spring of 1798, Bonaparte assembled over 35, 000 soldiers in Mediterranean France and Italy and developed a powerful fleet at Toulon ; he also formed the Commission des Sciences et des Arts, a body of scientists and engineers intended to establish the French colony in Egypt.

The AB Canon of Acupuncture and Moxibustion ( Zhenjiu jiayi jing 針灸甲乙經, compiled by Huangfu Mi sometime between 256 and 282 CE ) assembled a consistent body of doctrines concerning acupuncture ; whereas the Canon of the Pulse ( Maijing 脈經 ; ca.

The back or the shell is assembled from thin strips of hardwood ( maple, cherry, ebony, rosewood, gran, wood and / or other tonewoods ) called ribs, joined ( with glue ) edge to edge to form a deep rounded body for the instrument.

The cell body of a neuron is supported by a complex meshwork of structural proteins called neurofilaments, which are assembled into larger neurofibrils.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( TRC ) was a court-like restorative justice body assembled in South Africa after the abolition of apartheid.

Populus seems to mean the people assembled in a military body, rather than the general populace.

Leaving the main body of the Mexican Army behind at the San Bernard River, Santa Anna assembled a smaller unit of his best troops and hurried off toward New Washington on Trinity Bay just below San Jacinto.

Edward quietly assembled a body of support from the Church and selected nobles, whilst Isabella and Mortimer moved into Nottingham Castle for safety, surrounding themselves with loyal troops.

Later authors sometimes mistakenly or deliberately treated the Grail story as truth — John of Glastonbury, who assembled a chronicle of the history of Glastonbury Abbey around 1350, claims that when Joseph came to Britain, he brought with him a wooden cup used in the Last Supper and two cruets, one holding the blood of Christ, and the other his sweat, washed from his wounded body on the Cross.

Furious at what they saw as poor management, many of those assembled organized into a body led by Etienne Marcel, the Provost of Merchants ( a title roughly equivalent to mayor of Paris today ).

The Enduro was a special version of the 1980 900 Turbo assembled by Saab Australia ; only eleven 900 Enduros were made along with a full body kit as a spare.

Similarly, The Six Million Dollar Man became " The Six Hundred Dollar Man ", assembled with body parts such as " rump: $ 6 at Loblaws ".

Left with no other means of escape, it activated the cyborg body manufacturing system at Megatech Industries, assembled a new cyborg shell, entered it and then physically escaped.

The Linwood, Scotland, body plant of manufacturer Pressed Steel was in turn contracted by Jensen to create the unibody shell, which then taken by rail to be assembled at Jensen in West Bromwich, England.

The forces and torques acting on a rigid body can be assembled into the pair of vectors called a wrench.

By 1928 the George Tucker Eyelet company were producing a ' cup ' rivet based on the design which required a separate GKN mandrel and the rivet body to be hand assembled prior to use for the building of the Siskin III aircraft.

As such, he was President of the College of Kings and presided over the Diet of the Confederation, designed to be a parliament-like body though it never actually assembled.

Appointed master of the ordnance, he soon assembled a body of infantry and horse, and drove the rebels into Kilkenny, where they surrendered.

Warren conducted an autopsy on the body of young Christopher Seider in February 1770, and was a member of the Boston committee that assembled a report on the following month's Boston Massacre.

The dragon itself is a long serpent shaped body on poles, assembled by joining the series of hoops on each section and attaching the ornamental head and tail pieces at the ends.

In the past, school bus manufacturers had been second-stage manufacturers ; in nearly all cases, the buyer chose the chassis the body would be assembled on.

Rousseau on the General Will added: AS long as several men assembled together consider themselves as a single body, they have only one will which is directed towards their common preservation and general well-being.

The body feels nothing then: it does not see its close ones who have assembled, does not smell the fragrance of the flowers, does not hear the funeral orations.

Hamilcar is said to have assembled an army numbering 300, 000 soldiers from Iberia, Sardinia, Corsica, Italy, Gaul and Africa under the command of a body of Carthaginian officers, along with war chariots, 200 warships and 3, 000 transports for the venture.