"Cadaver" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... him from the floor and look him in the face, full in the face. There!" He signaled the lantern operator and there leaped forth on the sheet the head of Martinez, the murdered, mutilated head with shattered eye and painted cheeks and the greenish death pallor showing underneath. A ghastly, leering cadaver in collar and necktie, dressed up and photographed at the morgue, and now flashed hideously at the prisoner out of the darkness. Yet Groener's heart pulsed on steadily with only a slight quickening, with less quickening than Coquenil felt ...
— Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett
... hint as to the treatment followed: "Referant leprosos balneo ejus aquae in qua cadaver ablutum ...
— Jerome Cardan - A Biographical Study • William George Waters
... recognized as one of the first surgeons of the age. His boldness and originality were exceptional, and his success was no doubt due in some degree to his constant practice throughout his life of performing every novel and important operation upon a cadaver before operating upon the living subject. To describe in detail the operations which he originated would be too technical for such a book as this, but many of them were of the first importance. Sir Astley Cooper said of him: "Dr. Mott has performed more of the great operations than any ...
— American Men of Mind • Burton E. Stevenson
... of the book is the illustrations, numbering about one thousand line drawings made especially under the author's personal supervision from actual apparatus, living models, and dissections on the cadaver. These line drawings show in detail the procedures and operations without obscuring their purpose by unnecessary ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon
... quis errantem Videat libellum Reddat, aut collo Dabitur capistrum Carnufex ejus Tunicas habebit Terra cadaver." ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 • Various
... interminable reading of the burial service went on. The captain had mistaken his place, and while he read on without purpose we froze our ears and resented this final hardship thrust upon us by the helpless cadaver. As from the beginning, so to the end, everything had gone wrong with the Bricklayer. Finally, the captain's son, irritated beyond measure, jerked the book from the palsied fingers of the old man and found the place. Again the quavering voice of the captain arose. ...
— The Human Drift • Jack London
... face. There could be no mistake. She was looking into the face that made the portrait of the Iron Count so abhorrent to her: the leathery head of a cadaver with eyes that lived. A portrait of Voltaire, the likeness of a satyr, a suggestion of Satan—all rushed up from memory's storehouse to hold her attention rapt in ...
— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon |
