Beasts in example sentence
"In some countries the body is exposed to be devoured by wild beasts; in others it is suspended in the air to exhale its substance in the manner of decomposition; in other regions it is consumed on the funeral pile, and, again, it is inhumed in the bowels of the earth; every people have their own particular fashion, and to which do you give the preference?""All are agreeable," said the trooper, following the group they had left with his eyes; "though the speediest interments give the cleanest fields.