corpse-strewn

Civil War photographers Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner caused a sensation with their grisly pictures of corpse-strewn battlefields but it was a relatively unknown Vermont photographer who captured some of the most striking - though less sensational - images of the conflict.

Civil War Photographer's Work Draws Belated Praise 2011

Fictional endings are the moments when speech topples over into silence, so they regularly provide concentrated images of the horror of death, from the corpse-strewn scenes that conclude Shakespeare's tragedies, to the newer worry over entropy that filters into a novel such as Forster's Howards End, which begins with Mrs Wilcox looking "tired" and ends with Mr Wilcox "Eternally tired".

Narrative Strategies 2009

He seemed effective in educating the American intelligentsia about freedom and the "vast, corpse-strewn, treachery-ridden historical vistas, whose very air turned solid with howls of ubiquitous grief."

A World Fiercely Observed Leon Aron 2011

His “castle” was a corpse-strewn tunnel in a seaside cliff, thick with maggots and stench.

Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve Kresley Cole 2010

I also loved the scene where a young survivor is pedaling through his corpse-strewn neighborhood.

Maximum Overdrive (1986) 2010

There were one or two shots, as victims were made certain, and a few shouted commands; for the rest we splashed in silence through the stream to the corpse-strewn camp, where Gallantin was waiting.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Just as swiftly, Palestinian officials accuse Israel of perpetrating a massacre and invite the foreign press to photograph the corpse-strewn rubble.

The war against the Jews (5) 2008

Just as swiftly, Palestinian officials accuse Israel of perpetrating a massacre and invite the foreign press to photograph the corpse-strewn rubble.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

Karloff, Lugosi, Satanism, human skinning and corpse-strewn, art deco sets: all contribute to the overriding sense of dread.

Ten films for Halloween 2008

Just as swiftly, Palestinian officials accuse Israel of perpetrating a massacre and invite the foreign press to photograph the corpse-strewn rubble.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008