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Sentences starting with body

Body and mind she was free from ordinary morbidness, unless her dislike of all suffering was morbid. [11]
Body and spirit are in perfect harmony, combining to represent the feelings that stir the soul. [10]
Body of Bacchus! [5]

Sentences ending with body

A handsome, agile youth, to her sincere regret, had just fallen, but swiftly recovered his elasticity, and, springing to his feet, belaboured his opponent, a clumsy giant, so skilfully and vigorously that the bright blood streamed down his ugly face and big body. [10]
Pray consider everything yours that you find upon the--upon the body. [12]
Well, how do you suppose your lower limbs are held to your body? [6]
A delicious dreaminess wrought its web about my yielding senses, while the snow-flakes wove a winding sheet about my conquered body. [5]
Andreas followed her, with the leech, a man of middle height, whose shrewd and well-formed head, bald but for a little hair at the sides, was set on a somewhat ungainly body. [10]
It is so with the body. [6]
This hush continued while I was being chained to the stake; it still continued while the fagots were carefully and tediously piled about my ankles, my knees, my thighs, my body. [5]
Where is she, where is her body? [10]
Most of them were personally known to Cleopatra who, to their mutual pleasure and advantage, had measured her intellectual powers with the most brilliant minds of their body. [10]
If the deceased were not a chief, the house only was defiled which became pure again on the burial of the body. [5]

Short sentences using body

Her body shook with sobs. [11]
But a body was there. [4]
Whose property is my body? [5]
They have torn my body. [2]
A body couldn't expect it. [5]
Every body talks English. [5]
Every body was busy. [5]
He examined the body. [11]
But the body--the body! [10]
What could a body say? [5]

Sentences containing body two or more times

During the next twelve hours we had the general appearance, somehow, of being at a funeral, where every body was sorry the death had occurred, but glad it was over--where every body was smiling, and yet broken-hearted. [5]
Every body knows the picture of the Coliseum; every body recognizes at once that "looped and windowed" band-box with a side bitten out. [5]
He then carried the body in his arms, and went up the steps, through the stable, and then to the right hand towards a Sahib's bungalow, where Tookaram placed the body near a wall. [5]
He cannot separate the body from the soul, because he holds it to be the most glorious of formed things, and indeed, believes that a beautiful spirit must necessarily inhabit a beautiful body. [10]
Some of the temple-servants took their places to keep watch over the body, and after many questions addressed to Publius, and after examining too the body of the assassin who had been slain, the priests returned to the temple. [10]
By the indefinite signs which, even at a distance, distinguish a living body from a dead one, Napoleon from the Poklonny Hill perceived the throb of life in the town and felt, as it were, the breathing of that great and beautiful body. [2]
Give, O great one, blood of his blood, bone of his bone, soul of his soul, that he will say, This is mine, body of my body, and he will hear the cry and will stay. [11]
On the principle of correlated development, the plumage often varies on different parts of the body, or over the whole body, in the same manner. [1]
As the volts of an electric shock quivering through a body are suddenly withdrawn, and the rigidity becomes a ghastly inertness, so Jasmine's hands, and all her body, seemed released. [11]
I think we may find an analogy for it in electrical induction, the disturbance of the equilibrium of the electricity of a body by the approach of a charged body to it, without interchange of electrical conditions between the two bodies. [3]

More example sentences with the word body in them

Learn to feel yourself a member of the body to which your destiny has bound you for the present, whether you like it or not. [10]
Remember me to your husband, and tell him, that Captain Allertssohn's body has been brought in and to-morrow is appointed for the funeral. [10]
Nay, let the young, who have no wrongs to satisfy, let the young who have dreams and visions and hopes, rule; not the old lion of the hills, who loves too well himself and his rugged ease of body and soul. [11]
I advise aimless young men to choose some profession without needless delay, and so get into a good strong current of human affairs, and find themselves bound up in interests with a compact body of their fellow-men. [6]
When you are young again in body, these gray hairs shall render you distinguished. [11]
In any event, you will be able to prevent the main body of the enemy's forces from leaving Richmond and falling in overwhelming force upon General McDowell. [7]
He sprang towards you over Faddo's body, even as you threw the lantern, and, catching his arm, you ran with him towards the dyke. [11]
They know how you love animals, and so they try to do you honor and show their love for you by naming all those creatures after you; insomuch that if a body should step out and call "Joan of Arc--come! [5]
You had passion, you had hunger of the body, but of love you did not know. [11]
At nearly fifteen years old, when she was growing fast, and in an irritable state of mind and body, she had had a governess placed over her for whom she had conceived an aversion. [6]
In all the years he had taken no chance to pay tribute to the woman who, in a real sense, had been his mistress of body and mind for one short term of life, and who once, and once only, had yielded to him. [11]
By the seventh year after our home-coming my hardest cares for the concerns of my trade were overpast, albeit I must even yet keep my eyes open and give brain and body no rest. [10]
Every body has written about the Grotto del Cane and its poisonous vapors, from Pliny down to Smith, and every tourist has held a dog over its floor by the legs to test the capabilities of the place. [5]
The hands were wrinkled; the face was cold; the body was wet: the man was drowned and dead. [11]
Why, a body wouldn't know Sally Sellers in it. [5]
But then, perhaps, would come a letter from some quiet body in some out-of-the-way place, which showed me that I had said something which another had often felt but never said, or told the secret of another's heart in unburdening my own. [6]
A better analogy would be the human anatomy: we lawyers, of course, were the brains; the financial and industrial interests the body, helpless without us; the City Hall politicians, the stomach that must continually be fed. [9]
A blow-out ain't worth anything as a blow-out, unless a body has company. [5]
We were a worn and bedraggled and shabby-looking troop; and still, as always, Joan was the freshest of us all, in both body and spirits. [5]
Captive in a world bounded by a man's will, she simply did not begin to understand this strange and overpowering creature who had taken possession of her body, mind and soul. [11]
It was a wondrous great vehicle, the bright colors of its body flashing in the morning light. [9]
Who devised the wonderful machinery which automatically drives its renewing and refreshing streams through the body, day and night, without assistance or advice from the man? [5]
You want a woman who will be wrapped up in your career, Hugh, and yet who will not share it,--who will devote herself body and soul to what you have become. [9]
He had fallen without a pang beside the quackdoctor, whose medicines would never again quicken a pulse in his own body or any other. [11]
This was done with the upper portion of her body bending very far forward. [10]
Madame Marie sat with the doctor beside the bed of her dear mistress, and in another room, George Fournel, with the Avocat, kept watch beside the body of the Seigneur of Pontiac. [11]
Some summer insect, with no escape into the air, flew blindly to and fro, beating its body against the walls and ceiling, and filling the silent place with murmurs. [12]
A partition, covered with ill-wrought images and a few gilt ornaments, divided it from the main body of the church, and the whole edifice produced an impression that was neither splendid nor particularly edifying. [10]
By the open window at the foot of a bed in the Stay Awhile Hospital a woman gazed into the saffron splendour with an intentness which seemed to make all her body listen. [11]
F. No, he will not say so now, because his mouth, I trust, is hushed in death, and his body stretched to the four winds of heaven, to be torn to pieces by carnivorous birds. [5]
I think you will find it true, that, before any vice can fasten on a man, body, mind, or moral nature must be debilitated. [6]
I think it will elect its Pope from its own body, and that it will fill its own vacancies. [5]
An English fisherman's wife said, "When a body was in trouble she didn't send her help, she brought it herself. [5]
But the maiden whom your fury would cast into the abyss of the river is under the merciful protection of the supreme Church, for the death of her body will bring death to your souls. [10]
It maps the whole surface of the body into an arbitrary number of regions, and studies each region successively from the surface to the bone, or beneath it. [3]
He leaned his whole massive body across the table. [2]
Her fingers, her whole body, trembled; but there was no mistaking the strong will, the indignant purpose. [11]
Pierre turned his whole body, making the sofa creak. [2]
It was she who tenderly prepared the body for burial, who telegraphed to Gaston at Audierne, getting a reply from Jacques that he was not yet back from London. [11]
But kill Gabord, who had put himself in danger to serve me, who himself had kept the chains from off my ankles and body, whose own life depended upon my security--"Come, come, Robert Moray," said I, "what relish have you for that? [11]
When the doctor who had been called arrived, Carmen was in a heap by the low couch, one arm thrown across the body, and her head buried in the cushion close to his. [4]
To the deity who created him he dedicates body and soul until the death to which he dooms him. [10]
Stafford's face was white, and every nerve in his body seemed suddenly to be wrenched by the hand of torture. [11]
In a little while the queen beheld a body of Moorish cavalry pouring into the vega, the riders managing their fleet and fiery steeds with admirable address. [4]
But her mind, which was, after all, vastly larger in proportion than the body enshrining it, felt suddenly that both were lost in a universe. [11]
With a cry which was no longer doubt, but agonized apprehension, she threw the Thing from her with a motion of both hands and feet; and, as she did so, she felt a horrible cold air breathing from a bloodless body, chill her hand. [11]
On the night which followed the 27th he invited his room-mate Langethal to go with him to the body of his friend. [10]
Behind the gun-carriage, which bore the body, walked the nephew of the great Dakoon, then came a clear space, and then Pango Dooni, and Cumner, and behind these twenty men of the artillery, at whose head rode McDermot and Cumner's Son. [11]
Descartes was asked where was his library, and in reply held up the dissected body of an animal. [3]
Time has been when a man could clothe his whole body for the price of these nether-socks. [4]
I don't see what he wants to die for, after he's taken so much trouble to live in such poor accommodations as that crooked body of his. [6]
He stretched inert, wet, hot, his body one great strife of throbbing, stinging nerves and bursting veins. [13]
One or two were poltroons in body and mind, with only a real instinct for money-making and a capacity for constructive individualism. [11]
Mind and body were on the verge of helplessness. [11]
You know you were never easy without some medicine to take when you felt ill in body. [6]
His silent reflections were here interrupted by the loud sounding of trumpets, battle-cries, and, immediately after, the fall of some heavy body, followed by repeated acclamations, noisy outcries, and the applause of those about him. [10]
State House affairs were far removed from most of these, and the sickness and corruption of the body politic. [9]
The main body were drawn up in front of the mines and, familiar with the signal which requested negotiations, asked their commander for an interview. [10]
Birds of prey were attacking his body as it lay upon the ground, and she could not drive them off. [10]
But the mother went about with that unchanging sweetness of face, and a body withering about a fretted soul. [11]
Even fifty men, well intrenched, could hold the position until the main body of Ali Wad Hei's infantry came on. [11]
The undersigned are well aware that this protest will be altogether unavailing with the majority of this body. [7]
When, however, the weighted body divided the water with a swingeing sound, her face suddenly suffused, as though shame had touched her or some humiliating idea had come. [11]
She did not weep or wail when Wassef's body was brought home and the moghassil and hanouti came to do their offices. [11]
They did not weep or shudder and during these last days they themselves felt that they were not attending on him (he was no longer there, he had left them) but on what reminded them most closely of him--his body. [2]
Superintending all the week tires a body so. [5]
She felt extreme weariness, yet somehow it did not seem to be of her body. [13]
That body was weak, but the spirit in it was the spirit of Joan of Arc; and out of that came the steadfast answer which these people were already so familiar with and detested so sincerely: "Let come what may. [5]
In two days we had it all done and the water in--a spacious pool of clear pure water that a body could swim in. [5]
How fondly do we believe, with the ostrich, that our body is hidden when our head is tucked under our wing! [9]
Singing hymns and waving palm branches through all eternity is pretty when you hear about it in the pulpit, but it's as poor a way to put in valuable time as a body could contrive. [5]
I sat and watched him, his eyes closed, his body was motionless. [11]
He kept close watch over her, and at the least indication of restlessness, that he knew led to tossing and rolling of the body, he held her tightly, so no violent move could reopen her wounds. [13]
It was my watch below till twelve, but I wouldn't a turned in anyway if I'd had a bed, because a body don't see such a storm as that every day in the week, not by a long sight. [5]
Yes, there it was, the crested golden cock which had typified his own life, as he went head high, body erect, spurs giving warning, and a clarion in his throat ready to blare forth at any moment. [11]
But the body was warm yet. [11]
A noble peace was upon it, and the eyes were like lamps of dusky fire, as though they held all the strength of the nerveless body. [11]
Philippus, quite undaunted, was trying to adjust the bandage over his wound, when Rustem suddenly flung his arms round his body and tried with all his might, and with foaming lips, to drag him down. [10]
But all he was then in mind and body and soul he laid with the rose on her pillow. [11]
But now--now there was the old unschooled simplicity, the unique and lonely personality, the homely soul and body bending to one root-idea, losing themselves in a wave of duty. [11]
In this manner was the great tragedy and glory of the world made to the people a present thing, transforming them to the body of the Life that hath neither spot nor blemish nor . [11]
In this room was the body of Countess Aurora von Konigsmark, famed as the most beautiful woman of her time. [10]
When the body was taken down, Yessoo was lying on the cot. [5]
Though his body was so cold, his throat was on fire. [11]
The broncho he was riding, as though the disturbance in Orlando's breast had passed into its own wilful body, suddenly became restless to be off, and as Orlando gave no encouragement, showed signs of bucking. [11]
In 1808 he was re-elected to the same body. [7]
When the body was put into the coffin, I took my place on the lid. [4]
And the place was plum full of farmers and farmers' wives, to dinner; and such another clack a body never heard. [5]
Kutuzov's general expression was one of concentrated quiet attention, and his face wore a strained look as if he found it difficult to master the fatigue of his old and feeble body. [2]
But Perrot, who was not far from the fallen brothers, suddenly made a dash within easy range of the rifles of the British, and cut Gering and two of his companions off from the main body. [11]
But cottage life was never the exclusive affair that it is elsewhere; the society was one body, and the hotel was the centre. [4]
In body he was like flexible metal, all cord and muscle. [11]
That the mind was largely concerned in these there was no doubt, but the mutual interactions of mind and body are often too complex to admit of satisfactory analysis. [6]
But their dialogue was interrupted: the first misfortune of this luckless night had brought its attendant: the body of Rustem, the splendid and radiantly youthful Rustem, the faithful Persian leader of the caravan, was borne into the hall, senseless. [10]
Troubled as I was in mind and body, the thought of Helene's quiet heroism upheld me through it all. [9]
Though the body was held erect, yet the head was thrust slightly forward, and the heavy eyebrows were like a pent-house. [11]
What a body was hearing amongst them all the time was: "Gimme a chaw 'v tobacker, Hank. [5]
The nervous strength was gone, the body was limp, the breathing was laboured. [11]
The trivial commonness was gone from her coquetting shoulders and drooping eyelids; and from her body had passed its flexuous softness. [11]
If asleep, he was evidently dreaming, for now and then he started, or his body twitched, and a muttering came from beneath the hat. [11]

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