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They also obtained silence regarding the sentinel who had disappeared from the Voreux; the district had been searched without finding either the gun or the corpse, and although there was a suspicion of crime, it was decided to consider the soldier a deserter.
But the mother touched them, that poor woman who had just lost her son after having lost her husband, and whose daughter was perhaps a
corpse
beneath the earth; to say nothing of an invalid grandfather, a child who was lame as the result of a landslip, and a little girl who died of starvation during the strike.
Life would no longer have been possible with that
corpse
beneath their feet.
" It was Chaval's corpse, risen from the upbrow and pushed on to them by the flow.
He kicked the corpse, which moved off.
A few minutes later we encountered the shark's
corpse
again, floating.
While I was contemplating this inert mass, suddenly a dozen of these voracious melanoptera appeared around our longboat; but, paying no attention to us, they pounced on the
corpse
and quarreled over every scrap of it.
It was no
corpse
lost in the waves.
Can it restore heat to a corpse?"
"Well, my friend, someday the earth will be just such a cold
corpse.
Inside the
corpse
of one of these animals there were found a buffalo head and a whole calf; in another, two tuna and a sailor in uniform; in yet another, a soldier with his saber; in another, finally, a horse with its rider.
Captain Nemo guided the Nautilus next to the animal's
corpse.
Mistaking the Nautilus for the
corpse
of a whale, some of them alighted on it and prodded its resonant sheet iron with pecks of their beaks.
It drifted back and forth, riding with the waves like a
corpse.
They examined her dresses, the linen, the dressing-room; and her whole existence to its most intimate details, was, like a
corpse
on whom a post-mortem is made, outspread before the eyes of these three men.
Suddenly on the pavement was heard a loud noise of clogs and the clattering of a stick; and a voice rose—a raucous voice—that sang—"Maids in the warmth of a summer day Dream of love and of love always"Emma raised herself like a galvanised corpse, her hair undone, her eyes fixed, staring.
They sat opposite one another, with protruding stomachs, puffed-up faces, and frowning looks, after so much disagreement uniting at last in the same human weakness, and they moved no more than the
corpse
by their side, that seemed to be sleeping.
CHAPTER 18 A King at VerrieresAre you fit only to be flung down like the
corpse
of a nation, its soul gone and its veins emptied of blood?
Far from responding to her lover's eagerness, she was like a barely animated
corpse.
In the end, Julien was deeply impressed by the embraces, in which there was no warmth, of this living corpse; he could think of nothing else for some leagues.
Julien no longer lives, it is his
corpse
that is still stirring.'
She is not acting a part, she dares to listen to her heart; and so, two letters daily.''Never, never!' said Julien, losing courage; 'I would let myself be brayed in a mortar sooner than compose three sentences; I am a corpse, my dear fellow, expect nothing more of me.
One party (the young and giddy portion of the crowd) held that it was a wedding, and pointed out Harris as the bridegroom; while the elder and more thoughtful among the populace inclined to the idea that it was a funeral, and that I was probably the
corpse'
s brother.
People, going home late, would stop outside to listen, and then put it about all over the town, the next morning, that a fearful murder had been committed at Mr. Jefferson's the night before; and would describe how they had heard the victim's shrieks and the brutal oaths and curses of the murderer, followed by the prayer for mercy, and the last dying gurgle of the
corpse.
The impression on the mind of the sail seemed to be that we were playing at funerals, and that I was the
corpse
and itself was the winding-sheet.
Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said:"Just look how thin he was.
They did so, and stood around Gregor's
corpse
with their hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats.
A convulsive shuddering passed over his whole frame, and he hung a hideous
corpse.
At the next moment its owner lay a quivering
corpse.
But say--how do you cure 'em with dead cats?""Why, you take your cat and go and get in the grave-yard 'long about midnight when somebody that was wicked has been buried; and when it's midnight a devil will come, or maybe two or three, but you can't see 'em, you can only hear something like the wind, or maybe hear 'em talk; and when they're taking that feller away, you heave your cat after 'em and say, 'Devil follow corpse, cat follow devil, warts follow cat, I'm done with ye!'That'll fetch _any_ wart."
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