The account, therefore, of the proceedings of these men gives a good idea of the work of the body-snatchers in general.
Hearing that your son had been buried, I, being a doctor and in want of a subject for dissection, employed resurrectioners or body-snatchers to procure me your son's body.
The body-snatchers had now shovelled all the earth away that covered me, and they began to lift the coffin out of the grave.
These criminals had plied their impudent trade of cloak-snatchers in every street in Madrid, and had, amongst many other outrages, killed a priest who had objected to part with his raiment.
The three body-snatchers retraced their steps to the house in the vicinity of the Bird-cage Walk; and the Cracksman and Buffer, having deposited the implements of their avocation in the corner of the front room, took their departure.
At length the body-snatchers reached the low wall surmounted with a high railing which encloses Shoreditch churchyard.
The body-snatchers then proceeded to raise the coffin, by means of ropes passed underneath it.
They hastily scaled the railings around the burial-ground, and proceeded to the very door from which the body-snatchers had emerged an hour previously.
We must leave the Mummy singing her horrible staves, and accompany the body-snatchers in their proceedings at Shoreditch Church.
The clock struck three as the surgeon and the body-snatchers issued from the church, carrying the sack containing the corpse between them.
The surgeon and the body-snatchers then scaled the railing, and in a few moments stood in the churchyard.
This was the surgeon, whose thirst after science had called into action the energies of the body-snatchers that night.
The body-snatchers then applied themselves to the restoration of the vault to its original appearance.
By our terrible zest you've doubtless guessed That vengeance is our work; For we seek the nest with terrible zest Where the puddin'-snatchers lurk.
Our Puddin' in some darksome lair In iron chains is bound, While puddin'-snatchers on him fare, And eat him by the pound.
Sparrows--finches the snatchers and the snatched-from.
The snatchers can never know the joy of singing--or of being pitied by ladies.
As you rise in the scale of moral development, it is true, you pass from the category of the snatchers to the category of the snatched-from, and your ultimate extinction is assured.
The snatchers were detained, the police sent for, and arrest followed as a matter of course.
Reference was made to Mr. Partridge, the demonstrator in anatomy, and after some haggling they agreed on a price, and in the afternoon the snatchers brought a hamper which contained a body in a sack.
When on the following morning it was noised in Devonport that a confederacy of body-snatchers had been captured, the greatest excitement prevailed.
It was generally supposed that the body-snatchers in exhuming a corpse first proceeded, as would a novice, in excavating the whole grave, and having arrived at the coffin would then force off the lid and so get possession of the body.
After watching for a couple of hours, I returned with my men to the city, being convinced that the body-snatchers would not make another attempt to rob the grave.
The light of the lantern feebly glimmered in one direction, and the body-snatchers flitted about like restless ghouls preparing for a horrible banquet.
It was some time after he overtook me before we could find Knox, but we finally met and returned to the place where the body-snatchers were at work.
Accordingly he spoke to them about the occurrence of the previous night, and said that for the present he did not intend to make any investigation to learn who were the body-snatchers on that occasion.
If the body-snatchers had been caught, they might have been able to give very important testimony at the inquest.
He drank--long and deeply he drank--and the dread shapes of the Snatchers did not appear.
Her relatives were afraid that her remains would not be allowed to lie in the grave, as the body-snatchers were then busy with the Irish burying-places.
The professional body-snatchers were, however, sometimes employed by other than doctors--by persons who made use of them for purposes which had not even the excuse of a desire for the advancement of anatomical science.
Notwithstanding the extreme views the people of Scotland held against the resurrectionists, as the body-snatchers were named, their horrible trade continued to prosper, and it received many recruits.
The coffin-lid was laid back and the outside cover placed in position, the body-snatchers not waiting to replace the screws.
Both men expressed their abhorrence of the scene, and an outsider looking upon the body-snatchers would have beheld three death-like countenances instead of one.
Realising, therefore, that it was impossible to carry out their plan, the body-snatchers returned to Shanghai, but here a surprise awaited them.
These seemed to spring out by hundreds from every side as by magic, and the body-snatchers were soon more than ten times outnumbered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snatchers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
