Bodies

Examples

• Had they not better throw these bodies to the plant men and then return to their quarters, O Mighty One? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The bodies are shipped separate from the chassis, being stood on end in one-half of the car and protected from dust by coverings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• No one could tell from the bodies of these wounded men he would leave in beds at the Palace, that they were Russians. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Can there be beautiful bodies without hearts inside? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And the only way he could get to know anatomy as he did, was by going to snatch bodies at night, from graveyards and places of execution. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We can be sure of them only through their effect on our bodies, and by the visible work they do. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Their bodies were smaller and lighter in color, and their fingers and toes bore the rudiments of nails, which were entirely lacking among the males. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• There were bodies of constables with blue staves, twenty committee-men with blue scarfs, and a mob of voters with blue cockades. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The molecules of solid bodies cannot escape so readily as those of liquids and gases, and do not travel far. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The practical use of the invention when turned to the heavenly bodies served to confirm the truth of the discovery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As a result of this experiment Galileo declared three laws in relation to falling bodies. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The bodies of the murdered were then brought out and exposed in the street, till a hole could be made in the earth to receive and cover them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• But, all the bodies agreed that they were never to wonder. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It's quite enough that we let 'em have live bodies. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He would surely reply that medicine gives drugs and meat and drink to human bodies. Plato. The Republic.
• Nothing was found there but dead bodies of men of both armies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In the year 1600, Gilbert, an English physician, enlarged considerably the catalogue of substances which have the property of attracting light bodies. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Th e seven days of the week were closely associated in men's thinking with the heavenly bodies. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• You heard about it; you heard the shots; and you saw the bodies. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The air, entering, rises within, and carries up dust, leaves, and even heavier bodies that happen in its way, as the eddy or whirl passes over land. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The burning logs gave warmth to the cabin and served as a primitive cooking agent; and the smoke which usually accompanies burning bodies was carried away by means of the chimney. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It was his opinion that it was cheaper to quarry and concentrate lean ore in a big way than to attempt to mine, under adverse circumstances, limited bodies of high-grade ore. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In 1639 Galileo, then old and blind, dictated to his son one of his books in which he discussed the isochronal properties of oscillating bodies, and their adaptation as time measures. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He stood there in his strange, whole body, that had its marvellous fountains, like the bodies of the sons of God who were in the beginning. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He declared that the foreign bodies were ugly, nasty, brutal. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• In the few cases that get into the newspapers, are there not instances of slain bodies found, and no murderers ever discovered? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Food would be more plentiful, minds would be more at peace, bodies would be more healthy, and the world happier. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It involves me in correspondence with public bodies and with private individuals anxious for the welfare of their species all over the country. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• By the high pressures, or stresses given by the hydraulic press it was learned that cold metals have plasticity and can be moulded or stretched like other plastic bodies. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I got to an open door, and saw the bodies of two Indians (by their dress, as I guessed, officers of the palace) lying across the entrance, dead. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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