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  • She was back at her desk, and he'd followed her there, standing over her like some carrion bird.†   (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)
  • It reminded the Duke of a time in his home planet's jungles, a sudden emergence into a clearing, and carrion birds lifting away from the carcass of a wild ox.†   (source)
  • On the road ahead a crow tugs on some carrion and flies up slowly as we approach.†   (source)
  • Behind them, the first of the carrion eaters dropped from the sky.†   (source)
  • Uncle Al is a buzzard, a vulture, an eater of carrion.†   (source)
  • He heard its purring growl; he smelled its sweet carrion breath.†   (source)
  • The air reeks something horrible, a combination of carrion, rotting eggs, and Cadets' quarters in high summer.†   (source)
  • The sweet, carrion scent of dogwood filled the air; in the evening sunshine, the insects hummed around the dense white cymes hanging low above the grass.†   (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)
  • The crows and other carrion birds closed the loop of the 3rd Wave.†   (source)
  • Repent, sinners, foul carrion, unworthy of our Lord's great sacrifice!†   (source)
  • That was when Matron saw them all bent over like hyenas over carrion, peering into Sister Mary Joseph Praise's open abdomen and its scandalous contents.†   (source)
  • The Unknown Woman watched him load the body into a canoe and paddle out into the ocean, where Foxlip went over the side with a lump of coral tied to his foot, to be eaten by whatever was hungry enough to eat carrion.†   (source)
  • She saw mourning doves peck at carrion on her doorstep and visited the botánicas for untried potions.†   (source)
  • In the breeze, they snapped like the flapping wings of a perpetually hovering flock of buzzards over more than thirty cars that ranged from good stock to steel carrion.†   (source)
  • The carrion crows of magic, they go where great slaughter is.†   (source)
  • However sunk he was in debt he is no pauper's carrion abandoned on the road.†   (source)
  • We cannot leave him lying like carrion among these foul Orcs.†   (source)
  • At breakfast, girls hush as I walk past; they track me with their eyes, like vultures waiting for carrion.†   (source)
  • Anger swells inside him now, bloats like August carrion, and his eyes fairly sizzle.†   (source)
  • The wretched demon bared his teeth and dragged his limb, swearing vengeance before he became as a carrion bird and departed through the window.†   (source)
  • He looked out at the burial parties and the lights beginning to come on across the field like clusters of carrion fireflies.†   (source)
  • All will be sweet carrion for the more aggressive birds.†   (source)
  • That you all turn to carrion for the fish at the bottom of the Dardanelles, your daddy, your doggie, and you.†   (source)
  • He looked at the venison hanging in the tree, more than half the loin he had taken from the doe, and he took it down and left it on the ground, where the carrion eaters would soon dispose of it.†   (source)
  • "Tell me your price, carrion," said the Lord sternly.†   (source)
  • And usually these carrion talkers were the same ones who had said one American was worth twenty Germans in a scrap--the same ones.†   (source)
  • I didn't tell him that the American Eagle eats carrion, never tackles anything its own size, and will soon be extinct—it does stand for those ideals.†   (source)
  • He killed his senses, he killed his memory, he slipped out of his self into thousands of other forms, was an animal, was carrion, was stone, was wood, was water, and awoke every time to find his old self again, sun shone or moon, was his self again, turned round in the cycle, felt thirst, overcame the thirst, felt new thirst.†   (source)
  • What are you but a banished carrion god?†   (source)
  • The plant itself has that nagging, clinging, carrion smell.†   (source)
  • Carrion crow!†   (source)
  • And I shall know that I must die, at sea most likely, cease crawling of myself to be all a-crawl with the corruption of the sea; to be fed upon, to be carrion, to yield up all the strength and movement of my muscles that it may become strength and movement in fin and scale and the guts of fishes.   (source)
  • On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds and to the wild animals.   (source)
  • They made away with carrion.   (source)
    carrion = the dead and rotting body of an animal
  • Rubble, fluttering cloth, gnawed carrion.†   (source)
  • That's a kind of beetle, it buries carrion.†   (source)
  • "Get your hands off me, you pack of carrion-eaters!" the man roared, and he dashed the guards aside.†   (source)
  • Weasels will tear out her entrails and carrion crows feast upon her eyes.†   (source)
  • Do I need to remind you that tigers are not carrion eaters?†   (source)
  • He knows what he looks like to rats: carrion on the hoof.†   (source)
  • Desert hawks, carrion-eaters in this land as were most wild creatures, began to circle over him.†   (source)
  • From some corner of logic in his mind, a thought formed: Those are carrion-eater birds over me.†   (source)
  • The looters come with the carrion crows after every battle.†   (source)
  • Carrion crows had eaten out their eyes, yet the empty sockets seemed to follow her.†   (source)
  • Go apologize, Eragon, or I'll fill your tent with carrion.†   (source)
  • 'The carrion-fowl have been busy about the battle-field,' said Eomer.†   (source)
  • Overhead, the carrion birds waited for their meal and the sun climbed in the firmament toward noon.†   (source)
  • "Do you mean to bury Blessed Baelor in a mountain of carrion?"†   (source)
  • ' "As well make peace with wolves and carrion crows."†   (source)
  • Soul-hungry ghuls who feed on pain like vultures on carrion.†   (source)
  • The carrion that lies far and wide upon the sands!†   (source)
  • Carrion crows and seabirds squabbled over your eyes, they say.†   (source)
  • The streets were strewn with corpses, each with a small flock of carrion crows in attendance.†   (source)
  • Must we pass this way, where the carrion-beasts devour so many good Riders of the Mark?†   (source)
  • The Bloody Mummers stripped his corpse and left his flesh to feast the carrion crows.†   (source)
  • Not though the walls be taken by a reckless foe that will build a hill of carrion before them.†   (source)
  • And the carrion god to drive your wagon!†   (source)
  • Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion!†   (source)
  • Some carrion birds-harbingers, I think the locals call them-had come in through the broken glass doors in the dining hall and were finishing the feast.†   (source)
  • These were not cowardly carrion-eaters.†   (source)
  • Tyrion saw no bodies, but the air was full of ravens and carrion crows; there had been fighting here, and recently.†   (source)
  • There was the sudden, almost comic bloating of the little corpse, then the stretching of flesh into lesions, followed by the sudden appearance of maggots in the mouth, eyes, and open sores, and finally the sudden and incredible corkscrew cleaning of meat from the bones— there is no other phrase that fits the image-as the pack of maggots spiraled right to left, head to tail, in a time-lapsed helix of carrion consumption that left behind nothing but bones and gristle and hide.†   (source)
  • All of our birds, of course, are carrion-eaters, and many exist without water, having become blood-drinkers.†   (source)
  • The carcasses of burnt and butchered animals dotted the ground, under living blankets of carrion crows that rose, cawing furiously, when disturbed.†   (source)
  • One of his shoulders was much higher than the other, and he stooped over his trencher like a vulture over carrion.†   (source)
  • For several minutes, she heard a large creature snuffling and padding about in the shadows between the stalagmites, and then she felt the creature's warm breath against the back of her neck, and she smelled the odor of carrion.†   (source)
  • The junior boys came running like vultures around carrion, because the fall of a bully makes big news.†   (source)
  • When they were nearly finished, he lifted his chin, filled his lungs, and then, projecting his voice toward the soldiers, he roared, "Ho there, you cowering carrion dogs!†   (source)
  • Leave Claw Isle a desolation of ash and bone, fit only for carrion crows, so the realm might see the fate of those who bed with Lannisters.†   (source)
  • Ravens soared through a grey sky on wide black wings, while carrion crows rose from their feasts in furious clouds wherever he set his steps.†   (source)
  • He widened his stance as the two Ra'zac converged upon him; he had no choice but to hold his ground and face their combined onslaught, for he was all that stood between those hook-clawed carrion crows and Roran.†   (source)
  • By experience and instinct, they knew that whenever armies appeared in Alagaesia, they could expect to feast on acres of carrion.†   (source)
  • The carrion crows wheeled about the gatehouse in raucous unkindness and quarreled upon the ramparts over every eye, screaming and cawing at each other and taking to the air whenever a sentry passed along the battlements.†   (source)
  • All the rabbits had heard the story before: on winter nights, when the cold draft moved down the warren passages and the icy wet lay in the pits of the runs below their burrows; and on summer evenings, in the grass under the red may and the sweet, carrion-scented elder bloom.†   (source)
  • From time to time the guards waved their spears to chase away the kestrels, gulls, and carrion crows paying court to the deceased.†   (source)
  • 'That is so,' said Wormtongue; 'but there is a third kind: pickers of bones, meddlers in other men's sorrows, carrion-fowl that grow fat on war.†   (source)
  • And the people were troubled in their minds; for the heaps of carrion were too great for burial or for burning.†   (source)
  • "Carrion crows make their feasts upon the carcasses of the dead and dying," said Grand Maester Pycelle.†   (source)
  • My flesh will feed the wolves and carrion crows, she thought sadly, and worms will burrow through my womb.†   (source)
  • I covered him with stones to keep the carrion eaters from digging up his flesh, and set his helm atop the cairn to mark his final resting place.†   (source)
  • 'He's nothing but carrion now.†   (source)
  • The carrion crows had been at work on his face, and wolves had feasted on his lower legs where they dangled near the ground.†   (source)
  • They are like great carrion birds.†   (source)
  • Carrion!†   (source)
  • This is a time for beasts, Jaime reflected, for lions and wolves and angry dogs, for ravens and carrion crows.†   (source)
  • They fed on carrion, did not disdain mice, and eyed Yurii Andreievich from afar, moving after him confidently as though waiting for something.†   (source)
  • Look at that carrion.†   (source)
  • Curses they heeded not, nor understood the tongues of western men; crying with harsh voices like beasts and carrion-birds.†   (source)
  • But now wheeling swiftly across it, like shadows of untimely night, he saw in the middle airs below him five birdlike forms, horrible as carrion-fowl yet greater than eagles, cruel as death.†   (source)
  • And, as well, robber and carrion feeder.†   (source)
  • A few vultures looked down from the roof with shabby indifference: he wasn't carrion yet.†   (source)
  • It wouldn't find anything there: the sharks looked after the carrion on that side.†   (source)
  • This thing is one with all carrion; it will be mixed with the earth again.†   (source)
  • A carrion crow sat on a rock, Derry, derry, derry, derr—oh!†   (source)
  • Out of the welter of rapture and anger and heartbreak and hurt pride that he had left, depression emerged to sit upon her shoulder like a carrion crow.†   (source)
  • Eugene, leaning upon the greasy marble counter, began to sing: "Hey, ho, the carrion crow, Derry, derry, derry, derr—oh!"†   (source)
  • People passed, leisurely, self-absorbed, and as they entered the radius of the light, it fixed them momentarily in caustic, carrion-green.†   (source)
  • You think of your readers, those carrion feeders, and all your typesetters, those wretched abettors, and saber-whetters.†   (source)
  • Already a host of the elves is on the way, and carrion birds are with them hoping for battle and slaughter.†   (source)
  • It was a castle made entirely out of food, except that on the highest tower of all a carrion crow was sitting, with an arrow in its beak.†   (source)
  • …been both long enough to have grown accustomed to it, only, thank God (and this restores my faith not in human nature perhaps but at least in man) that he really does not become inured to hardship and privation: it is only the mind, the gross omnivorous carrion-heavy soul which becomes inured; the body itself, thank God, never reconciled from the old soft feel of soap and clean linen and something between the sole of the foot and the earth to distinguish it from the foot of a beast.†   (source)
  • A good kissing carrion.†   (source)
  • And at its foot, here and there, a mosaic of white bones, a still unrotted carcase dark on the tawny ground marked the place where deer or steer, puma or porcupine or coyote, or the greedy turkey buzzards drawn down by the whiff of carrion and fulminated as though by a poetic justice, had come too close to the destroying wires.†   (source)
  • Outside the window the thin: moon stood upright in a deep sky, like the paring of a finger nail for magic, and against the sky the weather vane of the carrion crow with arrow in mouth pointed its arrow to the south.†   (source)
  • The time has gone for the autumn wanderings; and these are birds that dwell always in the land; there are starlings and flocks of finches; and far off there are many carrion birds as if a battle were afoot!†   (source)
  • Far up in the sky a vulture watched; they must appear from that height as two groups of carnivorous animals who might at any time break into conflict, and it waited there, a tiny black spot, for carrion.†   (source)
  • He looked at the cold bright carrion, that bungling semblance which had not even the power of a good wax-work to suggest its image.†   (source)
  • His burial was a final gesture of irony and futility: an effort to compensate carrion death for the unpaid wage of life—love and mercy.†   (source)
  • To Eugene came again the old ghoul fantasy of a corpse and cold pork, the smell of the dead and hamburger steak—the glozed corruption of Christian burial, the obscene pomps, the perfumed carrion.†   (source)
  • There's safety in numbers, but we fight together, like buzzards over carrion.†   (source)
  • You would eat the carrion of your own dead, rather than starve.†   (source)
  • 'Flies go to carrion,' said the Oorya, in an abstracted voice.†   (source)
  • Did you ever run him upon the trail of carrion?†   (source)
  • It was a pitchfork from whose points hung a bleeding quarter of carrion meat.†   (source)
  • He is a carrion crow, and though you see not well what he hovers for, there is death somewhere.†   (source)
  • Look! a thousand carrion birds, ar' hovering above the carcass."†   (source)
  • 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, And rags and bones to wicked wolves without the wall at night.†   (source)
  • "She'd bring up the nasty carrion bird that clear," corroborated the sick woman reluctantly, "as she stood there in her little sash and things, that you could see un a'most before your very eyes.†   (source)
  • Birds of prey they were--carrion-eaters, vultures that were enticed from their natural habits, from the need for which nature created them, to fall foul on this carnage left by the hunters.†   (source)
  • And I shall know that I must die, at sea most likely, cease crawling of myself to be all a-crawl with the corruption of the sea; to be fed upon, to be carrion, to yield up all the strength and movement of my muscles that it may become strength and movement in fin and scale and the guts of fishes.†   (source)
  • He eats no carrion.†   (source)
  • As in church he dared not move during the sermon so now he felt that he must seem attentive, though her screeching denunciations flew past him like carrion birds.†   (source)
  • But the horses didn't want it—they swerved apart; the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temples, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they issued from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices, "No, not yet," and the sky said, "No, not there."†   (source)
  • He disgusted me much while with him, for when a horrid blowfly, bloated with some carrion food, buzzed into the room, he caught it, held it exultantly for a few moments between his finger and thumb, and before I knew what he was going to do, put it in his mouth and ate it.†   (source)
  • It's carrion!†   (source)
  • Now in Hart hath befallen for a hand-bane unto him 1330 A slaughter-ghost wandering; naught wot I whither The fell one, the carrion-proud, far'd hath her back-fare, By her fill made all famous.†   (source)
  • He resembles Fielding as an eagle does a vulture: Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does.†   (source)
  • The blue-gray bandy legged dog ran merrily along the side of the road, sometimes in proof of its agility and self-satisfaction lifting one hind leg and hopping along on three, and then again going on all four and rushing to bark at the crows that sat on the carrion.†   (source)
  • I sent for Kenneth, and he came; but not till the beast had changed into carrion: he was both dead and cold, and stark; and so you'll allow it was useless making more stir about him!'†   (source)
  • But even granting the charge in question to be true; what disordered slippery decks of a whale-ship are comparable to the unspeakable carrion of those battle-fields from which so many soldiers return to drink in all ladies' plaudits?†   (source)
  • And as for he—well, there—(lowering her voice) 'tis said 'a was a poor parish 'prentice—I wouldn't say it for all the world—but 'a was a poor parish 'prentice, that began life wi' no more belonging to 'en than a carrion crow."†   (source)
  • By industry and care, you might thus come to some prefarment; for by this time, I should think, your eyes would plainly tell you that a carrion crow is a better bird than a mocking-thresher.†   (source)
  • 'THAT carrion!†   (source)
  • …ten or fifteen years, at most, than had been bestowed in England upon all peaceful public benefactors, and upon all the leaders of all the Arts and Sciences, with all their works to testify for them, during two centuries at least—he, the shining wonder, the new constellation to be followed by the wise men bringing gifts, until it stopped over a certain carrion at the bottom of a bath and disappeared—was simply the greatest Forger and the greatest Thief that ever cheated the gallows.†   (source)
  • It is human, it is divine, carrion.†   (source)
  • At length, it is said, just in the brown hour of twilight, when the owls began to hoot and the bats to flit about, his attention was attracted by the clamor of carrion crows hovering about a cypress-tree.†   (source)
  • He had no opportunity of saying, or so much as thinking, anything else, until he was clear of the Old Bailey; for, the crowd came pouring out with a vehemence that nearly took him off his legs, and a loud buzz swept into the street as if the baffled blue-flies were dispersing in search of other carrion.†   (source)
  • " 'But as for you, ye carrion rogues,' turning to the three men in the rigging—'for you, I mean to mince ye up for the try-pots;' and, seizing a rope, he applied it with all his might to the backs of the two traitors, till they yelled no more, but lifelessly hung their heads sideways, as the two crucified thieves are drawn.†   (source)
  • We are cheered when we observe the vulture feeding on the carrion which disgusts and disheartens us, and deriving health and strength from the repast.†   (source)
  • What creature was it, that, masked in an ordinary woman's face and shape, uttered the voice, now of a mocking demon, and anon of a carrion-seeking bird of prey?†   (source)
  • Ishmael, he murdered our first-born; but it is not meet that the son of my mother should lie upon the ground, like the carrion of a dog!†   (source)
  • It was most probably owing to the former circumstance that the body had escaped the rapacity of the carrion birds, which had been seen hovering above the thicket, and the latter proved that life had not yet entirely abandoned the hapless victim when he entered the brake.†   (source)
  • But a tremendous and painful roar, which came from behind the cloud of dust that rose in the centre of the herd, and which was horridly answered by the screams of the carrion birds, that were greedily sailing directly above the flying drove, appeared to give a new impulse to their flight, and at once to remove every symptom of indecision.†   (source)
  • Then when at last the feathered arrow downs him, carrion jackals in a shady grove devour him.†   (source)
  • Even the custom of ransoming a warrior's body is refused, and the horror announced in Homer's prologue is realized, "leaving so many dead men—carrion / for dogs and birds."†   (source)
  • Poor soldier, father and mother will hot bend to close your eyes in death, but carrion birds will tear them out and clap their wings around you.†   (source)
  • That fair white flesh my spear will cut to pieces: then you'll glut with fat and lean the dogs and carrion birds of the Trojan land!†   (source)
  • Only, I feel the dread that while I fight black carrion flies may settle on Patroklos' wounds, where the spearheads marked him, and I fear they may breed maggots to defile the corpse, now life is torn from it.†   (source)
  • BOOK ONE Quarrel, Oath, and Promise Anger be now your song, immortal one, Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous, that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss and crowded brave souls into the undergloom, leaving so many dead men—carrion for dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done.†   (source)
  • No man exists who could defend you from the carrion pack— not if they spread for me ten times your ransom, twenty times, and promise more as well; aye, not if Priam, son of Dardanos, tells them to buy you for your weight in gold!†   (source)
  • Out, you green-sickness carrion! Out, you baggage!   (source)
  •   Heaven is here,
      Where Juliet lives, and every cat, and dog
      And little mouse, every unworthy thing,
      Live here in heaven, and may look on her,
      But Romeo may not. More validity,
      More honourable state, more courtship lives
      In carrion flies than Romeo.   (source)
  • I fell on the animal, pinning it under me and knocking the wind from it in a gust of carrion breath.†   (source)
  • On the slow weedy waterway he had floated on his raft coastward over Ireland drawn by a haulage rope past beds of reeds, over slime, mudchoked bottles, carrion dogs.†   (source)
  • The reverend Carrion Crow.†   (source)
  • …And your port immovable where you stand, With still the inextinguishable glance and the clinch'd and lifted fist, And your foot on the neck of the menacing one, the scorner utterly crush'd beneath you, The menacing arrogant one that strode and advanced with his senseless scorn, bearing the murderous knife, The wide-swelling one, the braggart that would yesterday do so much, To-day a carrion dead and damn'd, the despised of all the earth, An offal rank, to the dunghill maggots spurn'd.†   (source)
  • For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god-kissing carrion,—Have you a daughter?†   (source)
  • She shall be no better than carrion: the skin o'er is all he shall ha, and zu you may tell un."†   (source)
  • 'tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb In the dead carrion.†   (source)
  • A carrion Death, within whose empty eye There is a written scroll!†   (source)
  • VOLP: O, I shall have instantly my Vulture, Crow, Raven, come flying hither, on the news, To peck for carrion, my she-wolfe, and all, Greedy, and full of expectation— MOS: And then to have it ravish'd from their mouths!†   (source)
  • Shall we send that foolish carrion, Mistress Quickly, to him, and excuse his throwing into the water, and give him another hope, to betray him to another punishment?†   (source)
  • When her own brother slain in battle lay Unsepulchered, she suffered not his corse To lie for carrion birds and dogs to maul: Should not her name (they cry) be writ in gold?†   (source)
  • Swear priests, and cowards, and men cautelous, Old feeble carrions, and such suffering souls That welcome wrongs; unto bad causes swear Such creatures as men doubt: but do not stain The even virtue of our enterprise, Nor th' insuppressive mettle of our spirits, To think that or our cause or our performance Did need an oath; when every drop of blood That every Roman bears, and nobly bears, Is guilty of a several bastardy, If he do break the smallest particle Of any promise that hath…†   (source)
  • The Houyhnhnms keep the Yahoos for present use in huts not far from the house; but the rest are sent abroad to certain fields, where they dig up roots, eat several kinds of herbs, and search about for carrion, or sometimes catch weasels and luhimuhs (a sort of wild rat), which they greedily devour.†   (source)
  • I perceived abundance of fowls, but ignorant of what kind, or whether good for nourishment; I shot one of them at my return, which occasioned a confused screaming among the other birds, and I found it, by its colours and beak, to be a kind of a hawk, but its flesh was perfect carrion.†   (source)
  • Not she; nor doth she tempt; but it is I That, lying by the violet, in the sun Do, as the carrion does, not as the flower, Corrupt with virtuous season.†   (source)
  • Or else, when these folk of low degree, as they that hold hostelries, sustain theft of their hostellers, and that is in many manner of deceits: that manner of folk be the flies that follow the honey, or else the hounds that follow the carrion.†   (source)
  • 23. the place served afterwards, to receive the filth, and garbage which was carried thither, out of the City; and there used to be fires made, from time to time, to purifie the aire, and take away the stench of Carrion.†   (source)
  • But for the miscreant exile who returned Minded in flames and ashes to blot out His father's city and his father's gods, And glut his vengeance with his kinsmen's blood, Or drag them captive at his chariot wheels— For Polyneices 'tis ordained that none Shall give him burial or make mourn for him, But leave his corpse unburied, to be meat For dogs and carrion crows, a ghastly sight.†   (source)
  • You'll ask me why I rather choose to have A weight of carrion flesh than to receive Three thousand ducats.†   (source)
  • Out upon it, old carrion!†   (source)
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