Use bodies in a sentence
Sentences ending with bodies
- She liked the Young Doctor, as who did not who came in contact with him, except those who had fear of him, and who had an idea that he could read their minds as he read their bodies. [11]
- When we had worked our way through their reserves and gotten their confidence, we found that they secretly harbored French hearts in their bodies. [5]
- It is upon us; it attaches to the body politic as much and closely as the natural wants attach to our natural bodies. [7]
- Presently he turned to me and said, just as one might speak of the weather, or any other common matter-- "You know about transmigration of souls; do you know about transposition of epochs--and bodies? [5]
- She imagined M'sieu' to be at Vadrome Mountain, until, glancing round the crowd at the quack-doctor's wagon, she saw Jo Portugais gloomily watching the travelling tinker of human bodies. [11]
- The members of this lowly organised order are wingless, dull-coloured, minute insects, with ugly, almost misshapen heads and bodies. [1]
- So extraordinary was the sight that, as if fascinated, the crowd before and behind followed the action with staring eyes and tense bodies. [11]
- Dr. Brooke had taken matters in his own hands and ordered an absolute rest, after dwelling at some length on the vicious pace set by modern business and the lack of consideration and knowledge shown by men of affairs for their bodies. [9]
- There was a sudden leap and stir of blood that had been asleep for an hour, and as sudden a rousing of all the drowsing activities in our minds and bodies. [5]
- She does not seem to be a safe neighbor to very inflammable bodies? [6]
Sentences containing bodies two or more times
- So long as this Will can compel the bodies of soldiers to do its bidding, these bodies must be destroyed. [9]
- Like the firmament, it was divided into little bodies which revolved about larger bodies. [9]
More example sentences with the word bodies in them
- Joan set to work at once, and concerted a plan with Guillaume de Flavy, captain of the city--a plan for a sortie toward evening against the enemy, who was posted in three bodies on the other side of the Oise, in the level plain. [5]
- The telescope through which he was fond of watching the heavenly bodies, and the movements of which had been the source of such odd fancies on my part, is now the property of a Western College. [6]
- By the pond where all the people drank, performed their ablutions, bathed their bodies and rinsed their mouths, sat the sheikh-el-beled, the village chief, taking counsel in sorrow with the barber, the holy man, and others. [11]
- In this district were three large cemeteries, in which during the previous year more than three thousand bodies had been buried. [5]
- And with them were some curious sleighs, whose bodies were shaped like lions, swans, tigers, etc.--vehicles that had once been handsome with pictured designs and fine workmanship, but were dusty and decaying now. [5]
- The other accidents were produced by dissection, or some other mode of contact with bodies of patients who had died of various affections. [3]
- At dawn we were at the city gate again; this time with a hope which our wearied bodies and fevered minds magnified into a large probability. [5]
- They filled the waterways with shattered houses and the bodies of their enemies, as they fought their way to Montezuma's palace. [11]
- Nearly all were watching the rescue boat, though a few looked over the sides of the ship as if they expected to find bodies floating about. [11]
- The three other victims fell nearly four thousand feet, and their bodies lay together upon the glacier when found by Mr. Whymper and the other searchers the next morning. [5]
- What is the use of fighting against the seasons, or the tides, or the movements of the planetary bodies, or this ebb in the wave of life that flows through us? [6]
- It has shown us how bodies stand affected to each other through an almost boundless range of combinations. [3]
- The confinement told upon their bodies and their spirits; still, they were superior men, and they made the best that was to be made of the circumstances. [5]
- Melissa observed only two soldiers, who were looking out of window, and whose bodies were shaking as though they were convulsed with profound merriment. [10]
- They often also turn this part of their bodies to other monkeys to have bits of dirt picked off, and so no doubt it would be with respect to thorns. [1]
- Captain Ascott's fingers trembled, and he paused for an instant and looked down upon the dead, then out sorrowfully to the waiting sea, before he spoke the words, "We therefore commit their bodies to the deep. [11]
- By the subtle transmission of thought, of feeling which is characteristic at dramatic moments of bodies of people, she knew that he had already contrived to stir them to the quick. [9]
- They had been too busy with other matters to-day, and now they needed all hands in heaping the bodies together. [10]
- Breastplates girt on to their bodies, and swords wielded in their hands made soldiers of the sages at once, and inspired them with martial ardor. [10]
- On the way to Eggmuhl the carriage passed other bodies of troops. [10]
- And one day, to cap the matter, two woodsmen arrived at Harrodstown with clothes frayed and bodies lean from a long journey. [9]
- Here stood six thousand Walloons, to defend the half-finished wall, and behind them large bodies of armed citizens. [10]
- In the church there was no one to hinder them; but they got no further than the dividing screen, for on the floor beyond lay the mutilated and bleeding bodies of many a youth who had fallen in the contest. [10]
- Yet they had their little periodical explosions of economy like all other bodies of the kind. [5]
- The quiver of their leg as the foot was planted and the strain exhibited by their bodies showed what a tax upon their strength the load was. [5]
- The sight of their great bodies and their red, sullen faces brought home to me the cruelty of life. [9]
- They had upon their bodies some poor rags, but they could not be said to be clothed. [5]
- Search even for their bodies is in vain. [5]
- Both had sacrificed their bodies for a cause. [9]
- They saw only the yellow sand, the ever-receding oasis, the brackish, undrinkable water, the withered and fruitless date- tree, handfuls of dourha for their food by day, and the keen, sharp night to chill their half-dead bodies in a half-waking sleep. [11]
- The rest of the visit went off well enough, except that the "Man of Letters," so called, rather snubbed some of the heavenly bodies as not quite up to his standard of brilliancy. [6]
- We are half the time 'in transitu', flying hither and thither, craving that exact adaptation of the weather to our whimsical bodies promised only to the saints who seek a "better country. [4]
- The lonely spot, the superstition concerning dead bodies, the supposed doom of Gaspard, all ran in his favour. [11]
- After all, in the rescuing of bodies some method might yet be discovered to revive the souls. [9]
- But they took the money, and they wrapped about their bodies some leaves, and came up to the top of the hill. [5]
- He looked at the matting in the long lane before them, and he knew that the bodies which would lie here presently, yielding to the hoofs of the Sheikh's horse, were not sufficient to appease the rabid spirit tearing at the Khedive's soul. [11]
- The elder was the greatest sage and expounder of the law--the son the most illustrious astronomer and the most skilled interpreter of the mystical significance of the position of the heavenly bodies, among the Hebrews. [10]
- They are tough, the germs of these little bodies, said the Master. [6]
- The bodies of the fighters glistened. [11]
- You will rob the dead bodies of your benefactors, and disburse your gains in riotous living among the rowdies and courtesans of Boston. [5]
- All at once the circle had vanished, and the two men were standing not five paces apart with their rifles clutched across their bodies, each watching, catlike, for the other to level. [9]
- The bodies of the cats were carefully embalmed and buried, and their mummies are to be found in every museum. [10]
- He turned towards the bodies, then looked at the camels flying down the desert towards Dongola. [11]
- She saw again the bodies of the two gladiators, covered with crimson robes, carried shoulder-high on a soft bed of interlaced branches to the graves beneath the trees. [11]
- I don't wonder the bodies of so many genteel strangers are found in the waters around New York. [8]
- Then they take the bodies and wound them round some casks in a great hole, and cover it all up. [11]
- The shores of the Araxes have been fertilized by the bodies of fifty thousand of my countrymen, slain as offerings for your dead king, while only thirty thousand fell there on your own side. [10]
- L. Penicher maintains that the bodies were first somewhat dried in ovens, and that then resin of the cedar-tree, or asphalte, was poured into every opening. [10]
- I did know that Susy was part of us; I did not know that she could go away; I did not know that she could go away, and take our lives with her, yet leave our dull bodies behind. [5]
- The most suicidal tendency in religious bodies today is their mediaeval insistence on what they are pleased to call the supernatural. [9]
- These seemed insane tales; but Feringhea said come and see--and he took him to a grave and dug up a hundred bodies, and told him all the circumstances of the killings, and named the Thugs who had done the work. [5]
- A sharp wind swept the place, too, and chilled our perspiring bodies through. [5]
- So was the Suttee; and within the time of men still living eight hundred widows willingly, and, in fact, rejoicingly, burned themselves to death on the bodies of their dead husbands in a single year. [5]
- On the masonry surrounding the well the bodies lie, in shallow trenches which radiate like wheel-spokes from the well. [5]
- The bodies were stripped and covered up in the graves, the spoil packed for transportation, then the Thugs gave pious thanks to Bhowanee, and departed on further holy service. [5]
- Together with Tushin, stepping across the bodies and under a terrible fire from the French, he attended to the removal of the guns. [2]
- Coming to the spot where the bodies of her adopted brothers lay, she placed them together, their feet toward the east. [5]
- There was a sound of tramping and scraping outside, and a crowd came solemnly in, with heads uncovered, and laid the two drowned bodies on the bed. [5]
- The pall of smoke rolled a little, and a silver moonlight filtered through, revealing the weltering bodies twisted upon the boards. [9]
- Saddle and steak sizzled, leather steamed and stiffened, hearts and bodies thawed; grievances that men had nursed over miles of water melted. [9]
- The sombre pines showed up, a wall all round, and in the open space, turreted with fantastic fires, the Indians swayed in and out with weird chanting, their bodies mostly naked, and painted in strange colours. [11]
- Close to the shore, especially, the water had a reddish tinge, and the usually sweet, pure fluid in the canals was full of strange vegetable growths and other foreign bodies putrid and undrinkable. [10]
- Still, the great shield had turned many a spear, and many an arrow had glanced harmless from the brazen armor and helmets; the men that had escaped pressed onwards, while fresh ranks of soldiers made their way in, over the bodies of the fallen. [10]
- Others were so shaven in fanciful landscape garden patterns, as to mark their bodies with curving lines, which were bounded on one side by hair and on the other by the close plush left by the shears. [5]
- There is a series of organs in the body which has long puzzled physiologists,--organs of glandular aspect, but having no ducts,--the spleen, the thyroid and thymus bodies, and the suprarenal capsules. [3]
- To ascend it seems as impossible as to go up the Column of Luxor; and one can believe that the gentlemen who first attempted it in 1864, and lost their lives, did fall four thousand feet before their bodies rested on the glacier below. [4]
- I did not see her again before the hour that afternoon when we should give the bodies of the two men to the ocean. [11]
- All night they searched, three silent, eager figures, drawing step by step nearer the place where the ancient enemy of man was barracked about by men's bodies. [11]
- You want to say something about the heavenly bodies, and you have a beautiful line ending with the word stars. [6]
- There was a rush toward him, a rush that drove Janet against the wall almost at his side, and he held up his hands in mock despair, gently impeding the little bodies that strove to enter. [9]
- Let the bodies rot about the gold. [11]
- Now speaking, now rocking their bodies to and fro, in the evening sunlight, they sat and watched the Nile in flood covering the wide wastes of the Fayoum, spreading over the land rich deposits of earth from the mountains of Abyssinia. [11]
- We kept the rain out of our faces with umbrellas, and away from our bodies with the leather apron of the buggy; but the driver sat unsheltered and placidly soaked the weather in and seemed to like it. [5]
- In a court-yard, protected from the rays of the sun only by an awning, was a large walled bason, containing a solution of natron, in which the bodies were salted, and they were then dried in a stone vault, artificially supplied with hot air. [10]
- Inertia is that property of bodies by virtue of which it cannot change its own condition of rest or motion. [5]
- There fencing was practised with fleurets (thrusting swords), not rapiers, which Barop rightly believed had less effect upon developing the agility of youthful bodies. [10]
- The enemy had plunged into the wide plains of La Beauce--a roadless waste covered with bushes, with here and there bodies of forest trees--a region where an army would be hidden from view in a very little while. [5]
- Mandeville described a picture, in which he appeared to have confidence, of a fight between an Iguanodon and a Megalosaurus, where these huge iron-clad brutes were represented chewing up different portions of each other's bodies in a forest of the lower cretaceous period. [4]
- They advance rapidly, picking right and left, with military precision, killing the foe and disposing of the dead bodies with the same peck. [4]
- She stole out over the bodies of the sleeping watchmen, out into the dusty road under the palms, down to the waterside, to the Nile--the path leading homewards. [11]
- For in over-toyling our weake and unskilfull bodies, to satisfy this desire of present profit, we can scarce ever recover ourselves from one supply to another. [4]
- If he had operated thrice successfully on bad men, on whose bodies he had been permitted to try his skill, he was pronounced "capable for ever. [10]
- Their identity is only an idea, for we put off our bodies many times during our lives, and dress in new suits of bones and muscles. [3]
- The attendants pulled off their slippers and thrust them under their faces, and now the siais of the Sheikh ran over their bodies lightly, calling out for all to lie still--the Sheikh was coming on his horse. [11]
- The oaks shook off long tresses of their mossy beards to the tugging of the wind, and the bayou in its ambition put on miniature waves in mocking of much larger bodies of water. [5]
- Presently the face of the sun shines through the veil, and men's bodies grow warm with active being, and the world stirs with busy life. [11]
- They were porpoises of the ordinary length --eight or ten feet--but every twist of their bodies sent a long procession of united and glowing curves astern. [5]
- The arduous labor of scaling an Alpine peak has a compensating glory; but the dead lift of our bodies up Nipple Top had no stimulus of this sort. [4]
- Two vast bodies of furious foes confronted each other like wrestlers, who stretch their sinewy arms to grasp and hurl their opponents to the ground. [10]
- Czermak's microscopical examinations of Egyptian mummies show how marvellously the smallest portions of the bodies were preserved, and confirm the statements of Herodotus on many points. [10]
- The long-armed apes occasionally use their arms like crutches, swinging their bodies forward between them, and some kinds of Hylobates, without having been taught, can walk or run upright with tolerable quickness; yet they move awkwardly, and much less securely than man. [1]
- There was shade now, but there was not safety, for the ground was spurting dust where bullets struck, and even bodies of dead men were dishonoured by the insult of new wounds and mutilations. [11]
- Anyhow, as we now know that monkeys have the habit of turning their hinder ends towards other monkeys, it ceases to be at all surprising that it should have been this part of their bodies which has been more or less decorated. [1]
- But I will not venture to advise this body, as I only venture to advise bodies who are, not present. [5]
- Truly they have not two bodies each. [5]
- The constellations were not made from any geography of the heavens, but from actual nightly observation of the positions of the heavenly bodies. [4]
- Indeed, we did not have to be told that sides and stanchions had been carried away, for the deck trembled and teetered under us as we dragged 'Scolding Sairy' from her stand in the larboard waist, clearing a lane for her between the bodies. [9]
- Those people were not drinking that fearful stuff to assuage thirst, but in order to purify their souls and the interior of their bodies. [5]
- But they did not come, for, with a loud voice, the king told them to fall back, and went and felt the bodies of the men. [11]
- The river is not always allowed to spread over its whole bed--which is as much as thirty, and sometimes forty yards wide--but is split into three equal bodies of water, by stone dikes which throw the main volume, depth, and current into the central one. [5]
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