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Updated: May 4, 2025
Placing food with the corpse or in its mouth, and money in the hand, finds its analogue in the custom of the ancient Romans, who, some time before interment, placed a piece of money in the corpse's mouth, which was thought to be Charon's fare for wafting the departed soul over the Infernal River. Besides this, the corpse's mouth was furnished with a certain cake, composed of flour, honey, &c.
The curtains slowly moved under the wind, which made its way in through a cracked pane of glass, and the wax-tapers caused shadows to oscillate above the corpse's skull and also above the painted face. An earthy colour made them equally brown. The cheek-bones were consumed by mouldiness, the eyes no longer possessed any lustre; but a flame shone above them in the eyeholes of the empty skull.
Her left hand and foot were warm to touch; Her right as cold as a corpse's flesh! And she would sing like a funeral bell, with a ding-dong tune. The pigs were afraid, and viewed her aloof; And women feared her and stood afar. She could do without sleep for a year and a day; She could sleep like a corpse, for a month and more. No one knew how this lady fed On acorns or on flesh.
Accused of robbing a live man! said Gaffer, with great indignation. 'And what if I had been accused of robbing a dead man, Gaffer? 'You COULDN'T do it. 'Couldn't you, Gaffer? 'No. Has a dead man any use for money? Is it possible for a dead man to have money? What world does a dead man belong to? 'Tother world. What world does money belong to? This world. How can money be a corpse's?
First, there lay the body, quietly in bed, tucked in tidily and undisturbed, with no marks of struggling, none whatever the clothes lay smooth, and the chamber orderly: yet the corpse's face was of a purple hue, the tongue swollen, the eyes starting from their sockets: it might, indeed, possibly have been an apoplectic seizure, which took her in her sleep, and killed her as she lay; but that the gripe of clutching fingers had left their livid seals upon the throat, and countenanced the dreadful thought of strangulation!
Wills seem to me to have been invented by the devil for the special upsetting of the corpse's memory. Why, some of the peaceablest folks as I've ever known folks as wouldn't have scared a lady-cow in their lifetime have left wills as have sent all their relations to the right-about, ready to bite one another's noses off.
Aye, and rust amid greenness; as last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swaths Starbuck!" But blanched to a corpse's hue with despair, the Mate had stolen away. Ahab crossed the deck to gaze over on the other side; but started at two reflected, fixed eyes in the water there. Fedallah was motionlessly leaning over the same rail. The Chase First Day.
We found one like that an old man and called up a policeman; he stuck his red nose right in the corpse's mouth and said, 'Dead of drink. And now that's put down, where really it ought to say, 'Starved to death! It mustn't be said that any one really suffers need in this country, you understand. No one freezes to death here who will only keep moving; no one starves unless it's his own fault.
"Which I looked down my nose, and it were like a corpse's." "Very alarming," said Atherley, "but easily explained. Directly you opened the door there was, of course, a draught from the open window. That draught blew the candle out and knocked something over, probably a screen." "La' bless you, Sir George, it was more like paving-stones than screens a-falling." And indeed Mrs.
We found one like that an old man and called up a policeman; he stuck his red nose right in the corpse's mouth and said, 'Dead of drink. And now that's put down, where really it ought to say, 'Starved to death! It mustn't be said that any one really suffers need in this country, you understand. No one freezes to death here who will only keep moving; no one starves unless it's his own fault.
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