Sentence examples for carcase from inspiring English sources

Below is an example of a Playfair cipher, solved by Lord Peter Wimsey in Dorothy L. Sayers's Have His Carcase (1932).

I learned to carve a carcase at his knee.

Ms. Sayers's titles alone crackle with indestructible wit: "Have His Carcase," "Gaudy Night," and "Busman's Honeymoon".

David Lee, who edits a publication called the Jackdaw (which describes itself as "nasty and critical of many things, and especially of the art establishment which stinks like the rotting carcase it is"), has been merrily suggesting that Arts Council England's money would be wisely used in mounting exhibitions of the works of Beryl Cook and Jack Vettriano.

She crops up again in Have His Carcase, in which the pair find an easier footing as they solve a murder case together.

In the American west, they teach a dog not to kill the poultry by strapping the rotting carcase of a chicken round its neck.

It proved toxic for the vultures feeding on bovine carcases.

Even more remarkable is the case of India's vultures, which virtually vanished when the cattle on whose carcases they fed – untouched by the population for religious reasons – were treated with an anti-inflammatory drug, fatal to the birds.

The unscavenged carcases provoked an explosion in dog numbers, which led in turn to a big rise in the incidence of rabies.

Lean, older and harder working, goat gets a bad rap for being, well, goaty and many butchers don't cut carcases in a way most of us recognise.

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson Before a tryst with seductive Robert Lovelace, Clarissa has a terrible dream warning her against him: the villainous rake "stabbed me to the heart, and then tumbled me into a deep grave ready dug, among two or three half- dissolved carcases; throwing in the dirt and earth upon me with his hands, and trampling it down with his feet".