Corpse
A corpse, also called a cadaver in medical literary and legal usage or when intended for dissection, is a dead human body.
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Famous quotes containing the word corpse:
“Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 24:28.
“The Politician’s corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged,
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.”
—Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)
“Last night I fled until I came
To streets where leaking casements dripped
Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame;
A nervous window bled.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)