body

I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.

The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.

Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.

Folio Society 1973, page 463:

Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body, it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it […]

This, of course, was not about the State, but it was certainly an invasion: black bodies acting out in a public domain circumscribed by a racist culture. The Garvey movement presents an example of black bodies transgressing racialized spatial boundaries.

The boxer took a blow to the body.

The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.

Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.

In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.

I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.

The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.

We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.

All bodies are held together by internal forces.

The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.

The red wine, sadly, lacked body.

In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour […]

a nonpareil face on an agate body