7 sentences with “corpse”

In an old amusement park, one corpse appears, then another.

-It's a person! -Erika exclaimed. It was a corpse lying face down in the muddy water, and it appeared to have a wound on its skull.

The frozen corpse lay face down, with his right arm flexed underneath as if to protect himself from a blizzard. Among the ice were strands of hair and beard, and shreds of clothing.

The corpse was wrapped in animal skins or attire and crowned with a wooden mask with a protruding nose and round eyes. It was then equipped for the afterlife: toys, tongs, belts, drinks and food, gourds with corn, snails, etc.

The amazing thing is that the corpse of the insect trapped in propolis is preserved for a long time, showing no signs of putrefaction. The bees themselves use it as a "brick" to repair a crack in the honeycomb or to narrow the entrance.

In the cockpit, Simon Rogers, who had been holding Captain Lancaster's legs trapped in the broken window, suddenly felt his ankles twitch in his hands; his feet began to move. Despite believing it must be the last muscle spasm of a corpse, he continued to resist and hold on.

Back in Innsbruck on Tuesday morning, the coroner prepared the corpse for examination and placed beside it the objects collected from the place where it was found: some fragments of wood, the knife, a strange cylindrical case of birch bark about 20 centimetres long and, most strikingly, an axe with a metal head and an L-shaped wooden handle.