1 There were men to scrape each side and men to scrape the back; there were men to clean the carcass inside, to trim it and wash it.
2 Before the carcass was admitted here, however, it had to pass a government inspector, who sat in the doorway and felt of the glands in the neck for tuberculosis.
3 The carcass hung for a few minutes to bleed; there was no time lost, however, for there were several hanging in each line, and one was always ready.
4 Now and then, when the bosses were not looking, you would see them plunging their feet and ankles into the steaming hot carcass of the steer, or darting across the room to the hot-water jets.
5 The gang having already got the carcass on to the truck, the party set out at a trot, followed by screams and curses, and a shower of bricks and stones from unseen enemies.
6 Spurning the loathsome object with his foot, he turned from it with the same indifference he would have quitted a brute carcass.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18 7 They won't ever hunt the river for anything but my dead carcass.
8 You see, they was firing cannon over the water, trying to make my carcass come to the top.
9 Well, then I happened to think how they always put quicksilver in loaves of bread and float them off, because they always go right to the drownded carcass and stop there.
10 The thing looked as dead as the carcass of some animal.
11 I had my shoulders against the wreck of my steamer, hauled up on the slope like a carcass of some big river animal.
12 The sons of Autolycus busied themselves with the carcass of the boar, and bound Ulysses' wound; then, after saying a spell to stop the bleeding, they went home as fast as they could.
13 It must have been for his hide, for, CERTES, the carcass is not worth eighteen livres.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 34 IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF 14 In still other places men were engaged in cutting up the carcasses that had been through the chilling rooms.
15 any of their products, the carcasses or products of which.