They were working their hardest to render the carrion innocuous.
I have mentioned the little Oval Onthophagus as a lover of carrion corruption; and my memory does not recall any other example of the kind.
A carrion death, within whose empty eye There is a written scroll.
The Carrion Crow is entirely black, with a violet or purple lustre on its feathers, and brown eyes.
The carrion that yesterday had been Tzar of all the Russias was dragged back to the Red Place, where, naked and with a ribald mask on its face, it was exposed for three days.
What other fate can we expect, who breathe an air tainted with corpses, and sit under a sky darkened with carrion birds?
To be transmuted into the sensoria of forty different nasty carrion crows, besides two or three foxes, and a large black beetle!
Rations of carrion meat, and bread from which I have seen the very hounds occasionally turn away, were unworthy entertainment even for the most ruffian enemy, when helpless and a captive; and such, alas!
Jesse must have been obliged to bury the carrion and spend sober hours longing for invisibility.
For several days a carrion reek had corrupted the air of the forecastle, and the murky hell-hole of the galley where French Jack prepared his strange offerings.
Eating of carrion is now forbidden, as well as beating of drums at Hindu festivals, and their refusal in this particular often leads to bitter persecution at the hands of the caste people.
The Kadirs abstain from eating the flesh of the 'bison' and cow, whereas the Malasars will eat the carrion of these animals.
His army was accompanied by a rabble, such as Keating had well compared to the unclean birds of prey which swarm wherever the scent of carrion is strong.
A few days earlier a man had been glad to obtain for twenty pence a mouthful of carrion scraped from the bones of a starved horse.
The carrion hath fallen in a pleasant place--so let the next comer look to it, and do thou fetch hither my horse.
He turned--in seeming carelessness, as you may turn to aim at carrion bird--but his shot sped home.
Who, when her own true brother on the earth Lay weltering after combat in his gore, Left him not graveless, for the carrion few And raw devouring field dogs to consume-- Hath she not merited a golden praise?
The Infantes of Carrion then asked permission to return home with their brides, and the spoil and presents the Cid had given them, among which were the swords Colada and Tizona.
The Infantes of Carrion and their uncle were defeated and banished, and the Cid returned in triumph to Valencia.
This cowardly conduct of the Infantes of Carrion could not fail to call forth some gibes from the Cid's followers.
The Cid consented to this new alliance, and after a combat had been appointed between three champions of his selection and the Infantes of Carrion and their uncle, he prepared to return home.
After journeying on for some time with their brides and Felez Muñoz, who was acting as escort, the Infantes of Carrion camped near the Douro.
The "stink-horn" fungi have their offensive spores distributed by a similar set of carrion carriers.
Thus there are the "carrion flowers," so called because of their fetid odor, designed for the sense organs of carrion insects.
The thicket was alive with crabs and lobsters, trundling to and fro lopsidedly, and I had to harden my heart against the horror of their carrion neighbourhood.
But even granting the charge in question to be true; what disordered slippery decks of a whale-ship are comparable to the unspeakable carrion of those battle-fields from which so many soldiers return to drink in all ladies' plaudits?
It has reached our ears,' said they, 'that the marriages between the counts of Carrion and the daughters of the Cid are about to be set aside, and we have come to pray that the ladies may be given to us to wife.
Therefore, the weddings were celebrated without delay, the counts of Carrion having been pronounced outlaws and their former marriages null and void.
This permission Alfonso granted gladly, and bade the counts of Carrion to be present also and answer the Cid.
Let me not, by some foeman first espied, Be cast a prey tocarrion fowl and dogs.
Now they said that they had heard no news of their father and mother in Carrion since they left Castille; and they wanted to take their wives home, and tell their parents what honour they had attained to by marrying them.
Carrion of various kinds forms their chief subsistence, and they perform in the country much the same task as is fulfilled by the dogs in the cities.
