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carrion
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  • They made away with carrion.  (source)
    carrion = the dead and rotting body of an animal
  • Wheat he gave to rich folk, millet to the poor, Broken scraps for holy men that beg from door to door; Battle to the tiger, carrion to the kite,  (source)
    carrion = dead and decaying bodies of animals
  • As far as I'm concerned they're scavengers — hyenas, the lot of them; jackals on the scent of carrion, ravens hunting for roadkill; corpse flies.†  (source)
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  • Don't think that they're cowardly or that they only eat carrion.†  (source)
  • They tore into the bag like jackals into carrion.†  (source)
  • They are parasites and scavengers, eaters of carrion.†  (source)
  • Weasels will tear out her entrails and carrion crows feast upon her eyes.†  (source)
  • But all animals feed on carrion.†  (source)
  • She was back at her desk, and he'd followed her there, standing over her like some carrion bird.†  (source)
  • He heard its purring growl; he smelled its sweet carrion breath.†  (source)
  • From the direction of the gymnosperm forest there came the mournful ululation of a carrion-breed pack.†  (source)
  • It was clear that we had to sit there like wooden carrion until, if we were lucky, high tide would float us off.†  (source)
  • Not that crows take off their feathers in the sun either, and these men were just a flock of crows: robbers, carrion-eaters who liked to plunge their sharp beaks into dead flesh.†  (source)
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Swear priests, and cowards, and men cautelous, Old feeble carrions, and such suffering souls  (source)
carrions = despicable, worthless people
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