Sentence examples for carcase by from inspiring English sources

The 1932 novel Have His Carcase, by Dorothy L. Sayers, has the character Lord Peter Wimsey mention the "antediluvian monsters" of the Crystal Palace.

Vaccination improved the ADWG from weaning to slaughter by 46 g/day (P = 9.55 × 10-31), shortheed the period from weaning to slaughter by 8 days (P = 2.01 × 10-45) and increased the carcase weight by 1.25 kg (P = 4.54 × 10-05).

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

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

(c) The distribution of diclofenac concentrations in meals is given by the product of the ratio of concentration in the whole carcase to that in the liver and the distribution of liver concentrations fitted to the results of the survey of ungulate carcasses described above.

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".

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

Both Taste of Death (his earliest narrative, not published until 1975) and Carcase for Hounds (1974) capture the spirit of the resistance movement in the Kikuyu highlands of colonial Kenya.

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.

BY BLOOD, by Ellen Ullman.