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  • Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.

    Dog   War   Men  
    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 270
  • NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.

    Men   Wish   Despair  
    'Duns Scotus's Oxford' (written 1879)
  • The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.

    Attitude   Dark   Wings  
    Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.62, Pan Macmillan
  • Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger.

    Food   Science   Turkeys  
    John Harvey Kellogg (1921). “The New Dietetics, what to Eat and how: A Guide to Scientific Feeding in Health and Disease”
  • A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

    "Romance of the Cow" by Dahyabhai H. Jani, The Bombay Humanitarian League, p. 81, 1938.
  • All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.

    Science   Smell   Bird  
    John Harvey Kellogg “The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How”, Рипол Классик
  • The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by the violet in the sun, Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, Corrupt with virtuous season.

    Lying   Flower   Violet  
    William Shakespeare, Brian Gibbons (1991). “Measure for Measure”, p.116, Cambridge University Press
  • Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.

    Tragedy   Feds   Humans  
    JoAnn Ross (2007). “No Safe Place”, p.36, Simon and Schuster
  • For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

    Bird   Natural   Prey  
    Alexander Pope (1778). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and Commentators”, p.290
  • Willpower is the fuel that runs human life; Like a driver in a computer application, Or Operating System in cyber programme, Willpower works life to performances; Life is deadwood; life, robust carrion, Without willpower in bright flame within.

    Running   Flames   Fuel  
    Praveen Kumar “Celestial Glow”, AUTHOR
  • Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

    Dog   Moving   Loss  
    Homer (2002). “The Iliad”, Spark Notes
  • The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, Since every victim-carrion turns to use, And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth, Against each piled injustice.

    Tyrants   Use   Injustice  
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.297
  • Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

    Wisdom   Ravens   Smell  
  • The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!

    Live Life   Mean   Years  
  • They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The evils of Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of these people.

    Real   People   Evil  
  • Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.

    Horse   Rocks   Views  
    E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.322, RosettaBooks
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