Carcasses
[kɑ:kəsɪz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Carcass
Edited by Donnie
Examples
- His animals, too, had been starved, and their carcasses lined the road from Cumberland Gap, and far back towards Lexington, Ky. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Trying to impose your vile second-hand carcasses on us! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In December, 1797, Fulton had interested his friend Barlow in a machine intended to drive carcasses of gunpowder under water. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The roads were strewn with the debris of broken wagons and the carcasses of thousands of starved mules and horses. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Take it, then, unasked, said Richard; the lion preys not on prostrate carcasses. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I go, and if you fail to capture him when he comes, I commend your carcasses to the cold bosom of Iss. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Perhaps the most wonderful thing about this department is the perfection that they are able to reach in cleaning the carcasses. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Certain parts of the hog carcasses which would not be palatable enough to go into human consumption are made up into stock foods. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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