Look, these beetles are actually really cool: Museums use them to clean the flesh off of specimens so the skeletons can be stored safely.
I imagine that winter as helming decay, the woods beastly, skeletal, far reach of the trees, the deer's bone-cage stripped clean of flesh.
Your article about politicians' use of hand sanitizer to avoid illness after a round of public handshaking hit home with this voter ("In Clean Politics, Flesh Is Pressed, Then Sanitized," front page, Oct. 28).
"Meat by-products" are clean, non-flesh parts, such as organs, bones, brain, and blood.
My Dearest mother, I'm laid up with a bullet wound, nothing serious at all, clean through the flesh and I'm as fit as can be.
Would you still try and rap along to "99 Problems" while sucking alcohol out of an inflatable watermelon slice, or would you feel revulsion rise in your throat, followed by an insatiable desire to rip your own flesh clean from your skeleton?
Fresh coconut and olive endocarp biomass sourced at a commercial vegetable outlet was obtained and manually cleaned of fruit flesh.
The right and left back limbs were cleaned of excess flesh, tendons and ligaments and placed in 25 mL specimen tubes.
He was a fastidious man who hated to dirty his hands, in particular with food, but he was also a doctor, and there was something grimly expert about the way he scalped the orange crania, excised the stringy pulp, and scraped clean the pale interior flesh with the edge of a big metal spoon.
