There is still much prejudice against the cremation of dead bodies, although two great facts are decidedly in its favour--viz.
As a rule the inspection of dead bodies must be made once if by doctors, and twice if by laymen.
The river itself was strewn withdead bodies of men and horses, and literally ran red with blood.
Not many of them, but they came flopping about the dead bodies, and the living, with hungry beaks.
There would be a terrific fight amongst the animals, which would end in the tiger walking proudly over the dead bodies of the rest.
It was almost dark when he arrived, but there was light enough to discern, from the ruined houses and the dead bodies of the murdered officers lying about, in what a merciless spirit the revolt had been perpetrated.
The village of Maharajpore reduced to charred ruins; in their midst numbers of dead bodies of those who had so manfully stood their ground and perished as they did so.
A hot spot," said one of these boys, crouching with his mates in a bit of battered trench outside a German pill-box surrounded by dead bodies.
Dead bodies or human fragments lay among the branches and broken woodwork.
They fell so that dead bodies were piled upon dead bodies in long lines of mortality before and in the midst of that spiked wire.
And so are all thoughtless persons considered as dead bodies).
The bodies of ignorant people, are as sepulchres of dead bodies.
They have the fragments and members of dead bodies, hanging about their persons as strings of pearls.
Sharks generally follow ships, and swallow whatever is thrown out of them, whether it be dead bodies or any other filthy trash.
The Canal had been filled with dead bodies, and the banks were still strewn with them, probably with the idea of making the water undrinkable.
Disagreeable odours, indicating the presence of dead bodies, were perceived proceeding from many of the houses.
Dead bodies, many of them mangled into mere fragments of humanity, were lying about everywhere.
And now the outer temple was all of it overflowed with blood; and that day, as it came on, they saw eight thousand five hundred dead bodies there.
The Russian line of retreat could be easily distinguished, for it was marked out by a track of dead bodies laid as plainly as the track of a paper-chase.
The 28th, the Plague redoubles its Ravages, and the whole City is become a vast Church-yard, presenting to the View the sad Spectacle of dead Bodies cast in Heaps one upon another.
Dead bodies generally sank; weights were attached to dead bodies, not so much to make them sink at the time, as to prevent them floating afterwards.
Browne has a learned discourse, in his Vulgar Errors, upon this subject, concerning the floating of dead bodies; I do not understand it myself, but he hath a whole chapter about it.
This hoarder of dead bodies, with his stiff and almost heavy movements, is astonishingly quick at storing away wreckage.
Dotted here and there were thedead bodies of horses and men: how long they had lain there Heaven knows!
The steps were thick with mud and water; water also was dripping through all the crevices in the roof, and the offensive smell of dead bodies reached me.
Lanterns were placed near the lakes of blood and heaps of dead bodies, so as plainly to distinguish the work from the workmen.
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