The idea of suicide, which his friend had driven away and kept away by his cheerful presence, now hovered like a phantom over the abbe's
dead body.
Whatever may have been the cause, he could not look upon a
dead body without a loathing which had in it an element of resentment.
A BEAR boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such respect for him that he would not even touch his
dead body. A Fox hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear, "Oh!
Returning to the palace he sees within the
dead body of his queen who on learning of her son's death has stabbed herself to the heart.
Philoctetes is healed by Machaon, fights in single combat with Alexandrus and kills him: the
dead body is outraged by Menelaus, but the Trojans recover and bury it.
Barbour ends his book by telling of how the Douglas set out to carry the heart of the Bruce to Palestine, and of how he fell fighting in Spain, and of how his
dead body and the King's heart were brought back to Scotland.
He must find some excuse to delay the finding of Mohammed Beyd's
dead body.
On a table in the corridor lay the
dead body of Burton Duff.
The mourners, too, enveloped and swathed in their skirts and gowns, were unable to bestir themselves, and so with entire safety to himself Don Quixote belaboured them all and drove them off against their will, for they all thought it was no man but a devil from hell come to carry away the
dead body they had in the litter.
Overcoming the repugnance natural to one who had never before touched a
dead body, I stooped and turned him over to feel for his heart.
It was only at dusk, when the place was ours, and after General Baird himself had found the
dead body of Tippoo under a heap of the slain, that Herncastle and I met.
The nobles stepped back from about the
dead body of their ruler, and one of them pointed to the grinning corpse.
dead body - a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person; "they found the body in the lake"