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  • The acts themselves were unclear—for example, a woman bent over a man for some undetermined purpose, as if she were about to do some violence on an utterly helpless cadaver.  (source)
    cadaver = dead human body
  • The karpos's fanged mouth unhinged, expanding to an unbelievable circumference, then closed around the cadaver's head, and chomped it off in one bite.  (source)
  • A man described by authorities as one evolutionary step above a banana slug has recently admitted to having been locked in the Sacajawea Junior High biology lab over a long weekend nearly sixteen years ago when he fell asleep and was mistaken as a cadaver.  (source)
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  • The skin on his face was shrunken like a cadaver's.  (source)
    cadaver = dead human body
  • Yet Michelangelo had his secret cadavers, and so too must I. An artist of a different sort, risk and sacrifice….  (source)
    cadavers = dead human bodies
  • "Fort intrigues par ce cadavre," as I was informed a long time after by an elderly French lieutenant whom I came across one afternoon in Sydney, by the merest chance, in a sort of cafe, and who remembered the affair perfectly.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it cadaver.
  • Using cadaveric dura (dura from a dead person), I sewed it over her brain.†  (source)
  • The stench of burned cadaver and charred remains hung heavy in the air.  (source)
    cadaver = dead bodies
  • These cadavers were so unhuman-looking they didn't bother me a bit.  (source)
    cadavers = dead bodies of human beings -- especially in reference to medical study
  • ...He unclasped and clasped again his fingers without removing his hands from his stomach, and made it infinitely more effective than if he had thrown up his arms to heaven in amazement...."All that lot (tout ce monde) on shore—with their little affairs—nobody left but a guard of seamen (marins de l'Etat) and that interesting corpse (cet interessant cadavre).†  (source)
  • As with Bo-Bo, it involved removing a portion of the skull, cutting between the two halves of the brain, covering the swollen brain with cadaveric dura, and sewing the scalp back up.†  (source)
  • Physically, he would be considered a hunk at the university or even as a cadaver in an autopsy room, which was preferable to her.  (source)
    cadaver = dead human body
  • No one knows where they get the cadavers; or no one knows for certain.  (source)
    cadavers = dead human bodies
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