They dragged the mutilated corpses to La Glacière, walled them up, and the vengeance of the people was stamped upon them.
They are like those beasts of prey, who wait the issue of the battle that they may batten and feast on the corpses of the slain.
Eyewitnesses say that German corpsesstrew the battlefield in piles.
That such vast excavations should have been made without attracting attention, and that such an immense number of corpses could have been carried to burial in perfect secrecy is utterly impossible.
To cold ambition or to joy's sweet store, Ye dusty corpsesminister no more, We give to you neglect.
About six were washed ashore with life in them, four corpses, and the rest were carried off to sea dead--26 corpses are somewhere in our water, and my men are watching for their coming on shore.
One enjoins that corpses be buried in honey-- it is a fortunate circumstance that his desire is not complied with, otherwise where would any honey-wine be left?
Corpses soon became decomposed, exposed to the sun's torrid rays; the tumefied faces of the dead took on the colour of pitch.
Athirst for vengeance, the women of the Quraish had thrown away their tabors in order to hurl themselves on the corpses and mutilate them odiously.
But it was said that many had escaped by lying among the corpses and pretending to be dead; therefore at the capture of Nishapur, shortly afterwards, it was ordered that all the inhabitants should have their heads cut off.
Hardly had the cart of corpses disappeared when Lebrenn seized one of the iron bars, used to fasten the shop window from within, brandished it over his head, and cried out to the indignant mass of people who were trooping by: "Friends!
Here, too, if more ancient tradition does not err, were stretched the corpses of twenty-seven members of the same great house at the end of one of their grim combats.
The corpses of Astorre and Simonetto were stripped and thrown out naked into the streets.
The robber takes away the ornaments of corpses from cemeteries, and swearing apparel from men afflicted by spirits (and, therefore, deprived of senses).
The earth, O foremost of eloquent men, was strewn with the corpses of Kshatriyas.
The corpses would be lost in the Devil's Cauldron.
Already, the corpseswere stewing in the Devil's Pot half-a-thousand feet below, he reflected grimly.
She looked as pale as the corpses which she adored; she would have shrieked, but had no more voice than a ghost; she would have fled, but was riveted as with the gaze of a basilisk.
May never pestilence efface This city's race, Nor be the land with corpses strewed, Nor stained with civic blood!
So deep shall lie the gory clotted mass Of corpsesby the Dorian spear transfixed Upon Plataea's field!
No beach nor reef but was with corpses strewn, And every keel of our barbarian host Hurried to flee, in utter disarray.
He wondered with himself why corpses and brides were dressed in the same way.
All these dead things which, when in their places, had formed parts of his own self lay there like corpses and up-torn trees showing their roots; it was an enormous funeral pile of memories, which he would have liked to set fire to.
Do you know," asked the commandant, "that the corpses are poisoning the city, since the Swedes took the churchyard of Eschach?
Now he would plunder the corpses of his enemies and collect the dead and wounded.
The man, however, was too busy to attend to him, and while waiting his leisure, he saw no fewer than three corpses carried out to an outbuilding in the yard, where they were left till they could be taken away at night for interment.
He fancied that the legs and arms moved--that the eyes of some of the corpses opened and glared at him--and that the whole rotting mass was endowed with animation.
The only sounds they heard were the hooting of an owl and the wails and howls of wandering ghosts; the only sights were the corpses of men hanging on trees or lying stark upon the ground.
Which the young knight gladly did, creeping away through a secret postern, though it was hard to find a footing amidst the corpses piled up on all sides, which had come to a bad end by reason of their own folly.
The corpses of fifty Frenchmen and the bodies of 300 wounded showed how fierce had been the fight.
The rivers floating corpses to the sea became so tainted that the very fish ceased to be wholesome food.
The grave-diggers worked early and late, and the corpses lay about in the streets like dung.
Who knows the names of the corpses which lay about in heaps in the streets!
It was evident that the rush had been northwest, for while we encountered numerous proofs of the armies' passage, graves and shells, trenches and corpses gradually began to disappear.
Sometimes the tomb was in the ditch (to save digging) and once we saw the Parisian pompiers burying some German corpses in the very trench they had dug and died in.
Seven blackened corpses before me lie, In the blaze of the sun and the winds of the sky.
The two corpses had assumed in death an extraordinary likeness, a likeness such as one only meets with between father and son, both namely bore upon their forehead a similar blue streak.
At sight of the countless corpses of the women the beastly rage of the populace, that saw itself cheated of the fairest portion of its booty, mounted to absolute madness.
Corpses and arms that had been cast away strewed the plain.
The two corpsesstill locked in a fast embrace lay upon the same bier.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corpses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
