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 Meanings and Examples of CORPUS
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corpus
 n.  body, living or dead; corporeal substance of a thing; large collection of writings of a specific kind or on a specific subject
Classic Sentence:
1  He was so very much at one with her, in his mind and hers, but bodily they were non-existent to one another, and neither could bear to drag in the corpus delicti.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  Real knowledge comes out of the whole corpus of the consciousness; out of your belly and your penis as much as out of your brain and mind.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
3  Trial by jury and the law of habeas corpus were practically suspended.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  Quapropter si rex non in singulares tantum personas aliquot privatum odium exerceat, sed corpus etiam reipublicae, cujus ipse caput est, i.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  No, no, it wasn't; I said the corpusants have mercy on us all; and I hope they will, still.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
6  "The corpusants have mercy on us all," cried Stubb, again.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
Example Sentence:
1  A thick bundle of fibers known as the corpus connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain.