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dead body

noun as in mortal remains

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Before my decade of incarceration, I had never seen a dead body.

I saw a dead body every day of my life, tommyguns, stogies, money in back rooms.

When a popular and pretty actress wanted to play the title part, he replied, “over my dead body.”

They dropped an AK-47 next to his dead body to make it look like “a legit shoot.”

Gregg sent me a video and in it, they describe it as “clearing the cobwebs from the air” and “stepping over a dead body.”

In like manner also their gods of wood, and laid over with gold, and with silver, are like to a dead body cast forth in the dark.

The precise terms proposed were presently found on the dead body of Hereford at Boroughbridge.

Lemme tell you, Scattergood, no town meetin' of Coldriver'll ever vote sich a steal only over my dead body.

Finding this of no avail, he came to the door of the tent, moaning sadly, and by his gestures seeming to beg for the dead body.

After they had gone, however, the arrival of two neighbours bearing his dead body revealed the terrible reason.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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