I have somewhere read that the islanders in the north of Scotland treat the rank carcasses of the fish-eating birds in the same manner.
In the desert between the rivers Negro and Colorado, numbers constantly attend the line of road to devour the carcasses of the exhausted animals which chance to perish from fatigue and thirst.
He adds that more than once he has seen the carcasses of upwards of a thousand wild horses thus destroyed.
This vertical section clearly tells us of a large bay of pure salt-water, gradually encroached on, and at last converted into the bed of a muddy estuary, into which floating carcasses were swept.
On the west coast of Patagonia, among the thickly-wooded islets and broken land, it lives exclusively on what the sea throws up, and on the carcasses of dead seals.
He could see that it was not the same set that were always on the carcasses of the aïs.
The three horses that had been shot that day occupied the attention of these gentry, for their hideous voices could be heard off in the direction where the carcasses lay.
As the horsemen drew near the vultures rose into the air, and a score of half-devoured carcasses could be seen upon the ground.
It was a large species, the Cervus antisensis, but, as it had evidently been dead several days, it was swollen out to twice its original size, as is always the case with carcasses of animals left exposed in a warm climate.
He had heard strange accounts of these white ants; how that, in a few minutes, they will tear the carcasses of large animals to pieces, and carry them away to their dens; and he was determined to prove the truth of this by observation.
He could live for a while upon what the jackals had left, with the carcasses of the two dogs, but that would not sustain him long, and in the end he would have to give up and miserably perish.
Everywhere along the trail were the skeletons and dried carcasses of cattle, and occasionally horses.
In one or two cases the carcasses were sufficiently fresh for us to examine them carefully.
The track being bad the train ran so slowly that I had time to count fifty floating carcasses of cattle upon the surface of the water.
Beyond there we found carcasses of buffalo and a fire where the Indians had burned out a ranch.
He that toucheth their carcasses shall be defiled.
He that toucheth their carcasses shall be unclean until the evening.
Their slain shall be cast forth, and out of their carcasses shall rise a stink: the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before your idols: and I will scatter your bones round about your altars, 6:6.
The swine also, because it divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the cud, shall be unclean, their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.
And upon what thing soever any of their carcasses shall fall, it shall be defiled, whether it be a vessel of wood, or a garment, or skins or haircloths: or any thing in which work is done.
And whosoever shall touch the carcasses of them, shall be defiled: and shall be unclean until the evening: 11:25.
Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed in the desert, Shall bear your fornication.
Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand upon them, and struck them: and the mountains were troubles, and theircarcasses became as dung in the midst of the streets.
And in the den there were seven lions, and they had given to them two carcasses every day, and two sheep: but then they were not given unto them, that they might devour Daniel.
Only two skins were fit to be stripped from the carcasses and added to the pelts Enoch had brought from the traps.
In some way they would have to get the carcasses to the creek bank and transport them to the cabin by canoe.
I reckon we'd better quit this trail, and git them air carcasses inter camp.
On another occasion a little girl had been taken to market by her mother, where she was struck by the sight of the carcasses of six sheep recently killed, and said, "Mother, what are these?
They generally live in very warm countries, and are useful in clearing away those dead carcasses which, but for them, would cause many dreadful diseases.
Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.
First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.
The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn't chew the cud, is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.
These men made us very welcome, entertaining us as well as they could, giving us the carcasses of as many he-goats as we pleased, and even aided us in taking them, bringing them down for us from the mountains on their asses.
Here were to be interred the brokencarcasses when the gallows had let go its throttle.
The carcasses thus recovered were given over to a squad of soldiers and each placed in a pine box without uncovering the faces.
The smoke, pushed by the movement of the mass of bodies, separated suddenly and left exposed to the eye the two boats of the lieutenant covered with a dark crowd of Tartars, like two carcasses of horses torn by a pack of wolves.
The water is forty feet below the surface, and contains a miscellaneous assortment of dead lizards, the carcasses of various small mammalia, and sundry other unfortunate representatives of animated nature that have fallen in.
Into this he dragged the carcasses of the bears, after skinning them and taking off all the fat from their meat and insides, and then he tried out the fat and poured the oil over them, completely covering them and filling the depression.
The living had retreated from the ground, but ten or twelve carcasses were scattered in various directions.
Cattle lay dead in every direction, their skulls, horns, and carcasses giving an exceedingly desolate aspect to the scene.
I do not know that actual starvation could have resulted for some time, certainly not until what cattle were alive had been killed, and soup made of the dead carcasses that covered the plain.
Hundreds upon hundreds of bleached skeletons and rotting carcasses dotted the banks or lay in great mounds, where they had gathered for mutual warmth, and dropped down from sheer starvation.
Minnes and I met about receiving Carcasses answers to the depositions against him.
The shrunken waters of the Pegnitz were putrid and stinking, the carcasses of dead horses poisoned the air, and fever and pestilence raged in the camp.
The waters of the Pegnitz were tainted by the carcasses of dead horses and other animals.
Once I stood for many minutes and watched our soldiers giving biscuits and their own share of rum to homeless French peasants hovering round the smouldering ruins of a house which carcasses had destroyed.
In the deer yard they found at least a dozen carcasses of deer killed by the wolves, but none very recent.
Not a quarter of thecarcasses lying here did he eat; he was feeding at least a score of ravens, and maybe foxes, martens, and lynxes as well.
Other unbidden guests came leaping from among the thickets; and in a short time there was nothing left of the carcasses except two naked skeletons, dragged apart and half dismembered by mighty teeth.
Outside the pass the giant jackals, cave-hyenas and other scavengers of the night, howled and scuffled over the carcasses of the slain invaders.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carcasses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
