Sentence examples for prone corpse from inspiring English sources
A photograph of a young girl, kneeling, arms extended, weeping over the prone corpse of her sister, is a standard Entombment.
Bartolo dreads examining corpses.
She spotted two deer near the water's edge, and then a black shirt and pants – a corpse lying prone in the water, 6ft to her left.
Purkiss's Puritan soldiers are often yobbish thugs, pissing in the font of a captured parish church (to show their distaste for infant baptism) and as prone to harvesting a corpse for its clothes and money as any royalist trickster.
But is Grace's lifeless corpse now prone on the train platform, a triumphant but heartbroken Campbell weeping next to her? My guess is his self-loathing, helpfully highlighted in that rather unpleasant brothel scene, is so great he turns the gun on himself, but wants Grace to see his suicide so she knows it's her fault.
Gates feature with a particular prominence, guarded by animal-headed deities, who are invariably armed with knives and prone to hacking up corpses, dancing in blood and eating hearts.
An hour and a half later, the class ended with the traditional "corpse pose," where students lie prone, palms up, and seem to be one with the ground beneath them.
Strikingly the woman's corpse is found sitting upright rather than laying prone, as if – even as the blood drips from her throat – she insists on bearing witness to the injustice, not only of her own death, but of the systematic murder of her whole culture.
The tragedy of the sinking of the Princess of the Stars ferry in the waters off Romblon in the Philippines – with hundreds of corpses still believed trapped inside – is proof that the country is prone not only to natural calamities, but to manmade ones as well.
