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.

In 1209 ten of his followers were burnt before the gates of Paris, and Amalric's own body was exhumed and burnt and the ashes given to the winds.

Shortly after the death of his father Dom Pedro declared that he had married Inês in a prior secret ceremony in Bragança, promptly taking revenge on the killers in a very gruesome manner and exhumed her body.

His body was exhumed and burnt at the stake in 1559 after it was discovered that he was the Anabaptist David Joris.

" Declaration ' Non Cultus '" At some point, permission is then granted for the body of the Servant of God to be exhumed and examined, a certification (" non cultus ") is made that no superstitious or heretical worship or improper cult has grown up around the servant or his or her tomb, and relics are taken.

Their campaign was successful and McCrew ’ s body was exhumed and buried in the Lincoln Cemetery in Dallas.

But we learn from Zonaras that at some " later " date his body was exhumed and reburied in or near the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople, where Constantine and the rest of his family lay.

Jadwiga's body has been exhumed at least three times.

Eadberht of Lindisfarne, the next bishop ( and Saint ) was buried in the place from which Cuthbert's body was exhumed earlier the same year when the priory was abandoned in the late ninth century.

Pepys records in his celebrated diary a legend that, before his death, Nostradamus made the townsfolk swear that his grave would never be disturbed ; but that 60 years later his body was exhumed, whereupon a brass plaque was found on his chest correctly stating the date and time when his grave would be opened and cursing the exhumers.

* In 1917 the body of Rasputin, the Russian mystic, was exhumed from the ground by a mob and burned with gasoline.

* In 1918 the body of Lavr Kornilov, the Russian general, was exhumed from the ground by a pro-Bolshevik mob, beaten, trampled down and burned.

* General Gracia Jacques, a supporter of François Duvalier (" Papa Doc ") ( 1907 – 1971 ), Haitian dictator, whose body was exhumed and ritually beaten to ' death ' in 1986.

When his body was exhumed for beatification, it was discovered that it had remained preserved, though 267 years had passed since his death.

The body, in excellent state of preservation, was exhumed on 15 October 1840 and ceremonially handed over to the Prince de Joinville in the French ship La Belle Poule.

Occasionally when a body is exhumed something miraculous is reported as having occurred ; exhumed bones are claimed to have given off a fragrance, like flowers, or a body is reported as having remained free of decay, despite not having been embalmed ( traditionally the Orthodox do not embalm the dead ) and having been buried for some years in the earth.

* January 30 – The body of Oliver Cromwell is exhumed and subjected to a posthumous execution, along with those of John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton.

* September 26 – The body of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick.

* May 13 – At Basel, the body of Dutch Anabaptist leader David Joris is exhumed and burned, following his posthumous conviction of heresy.

His body was subsequently exhumed, beheaded, and thrown into a fen bordering the Thames when Harthacnut assumed the throne in June 1040.

Later forensic evidence conflicted with the official version of events ; when Olson's body was exhumed in 1994, cranial injuries indicated that Olson had been knocked unconscious before he exited the window.

* In 2002, the body of James Hanratty, hanged in 1962 for the " A6 murder ", was exhumed and DNA samples from the body and members of his family were analysed.

Sikh history, with respect to Sikhism as a distinct political body, can be said to have begun with the death of the fifth Sikh Guru, Guru Arjan Dev in 1606.

However, biblical scholars of the time, such as Justus Lipsius ( 1547 – 1606 ) and Athanasius Kircher ( c. 1601 – 80 ), were also beginning to subject the Ark story to rigorous scrutiny as they attempted to harmonize the biblical account with the growing body of natural historical knowledge.