His head was bald of flesh and of hair, His body was lean and lank; His joints at each stir made a crack, and the cur Took a gnaw, by the way, at his shank.
Her broozled flesh and broken banes Are weel as flesh and banes can be.
They ran eagerly to the fire, and drew out part of the fleshthat remained unconsumed, and ate it voraciously.
All this he executed with such art, such grace, and so beautiful a manner, and gave to the flesh a tint of colour so fresh and soft, that one might say that it was real flesh rather than painted.
Though something of a pain, it had also been to her a great relief to realise that the living fleshand blood Godfrey Radmore of to-day had ousted the passionately devoted, if unreasonable and violent, lover of her early girlhood.
The dropsy was presently removed; but the cough continued, his flesh wasted, his strength failed, and some weeks afterwards he died tabid.
From the time he began to take this medicine he suffered no return of his complaint, and soon recovered his flesh and his strength.
They claim for it that a single wound kills a bear in ten minutes, but that the flesh is not rendered unfit for eating, though they take the precaution of cutting away a considerable quantity of it round the wound.
I invited him to dinner, and two tables were produced covered with different dishes, of which he ate heartily, showing most singular dexterity with his chopsticks in removing the flesh of small, bony fish.
For the moment, she forgot the other Basil whom she knew better, the one who had put aside his own flesh and blood as ruthlessly as Nature herself had put aside this little son of Jacqueline.
Hardly breathing from his suspense, Wes filled the needle's chamber full and plunged it into the firm white flesh just above the girl's silent heart.
If I had not cut off the current at once it might have squeezed through flesh and bone.
Swollen to tremendous size by the indolent luxuriousness of their lives, the flesh that was not concealed by the bright hued web of their robes was pasty white, and bagged and folded where the shrunken muscles beneath refused support.
The touch of firm flesh came out of the nothingness of space about them, to poke and pry all over their bodies.
Then the worst--raising it a little, and breaking the several fine wires that led from it through the flesh within.
The eyes of the Council were now opened, little pig's eyes almost lost in the flesh about them.
How we gorged on the raw red flesh and thick greasy fat!
One ball went through the upper arm, making a flesh wound, the other entered the right side on the back and cannot be found; supposed to have lodged in the liver.
His machinery seemed to work perfectly, whether it was constructed of flesh or of brass.
Matter of circle and triangle; as flesh and bones are parts of the Matter of man.
The syllable ba is something more than the letters b and a; flesh is something more than fire and earth, its constituent elements.
Apparently, therefore, the true organ of touch is something interior, and skin and flesh is an interposed medium.
Indeed the marked difference of intelligence between one man and another, turns mainly upon the organ of touch: men of hard flesh (or skin) are by nature dull in intelligence, men of soft flesh are apt and clever.
Flesh and bone have these elements and principles; other things have other elements and principles.
And to think he's your father--you're flesh of his flesh, bone of his bone.
The story is a blending of the romance and adventure of the middle ages with nineteenth century men and women; and they are creations of flesh and blood, and not mere pictures of past centuries.
His flesh furnished them with some excellent steaks for supper, and his skin spread upon a bed of leaves pillowed their heads through a long November night.
The flesh had an almost irresistible desire to draw away at once and swim for life, but an immense resolution held his body to its yet uncompleted task.
Jest when I begin to put on flesh they take after me an' I run it all off.
I suppose they're still able to pick a few shreds of fleshfrom the under side of the big buffalo bones.
Christ in his appearance in flesh was the Head, that is the representative of his body of followers; but they could not establish his peaceable reign.
For we wrestle not againstflesh and blood, but against principalities, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness[G] in high places.
The mastery of Dekker is shown throughout this comedy in the fleshand blood reality which he has given to abstractions; even the subordinate characters define each a clearly defined quality.
O folly, thou hast power to make flesh glad, When the rich soul in wretchedness is clad.
Indeed, all flesh is grass; and, Roger, canst thou tell where I may buy a good hair?
The flesh neutralizing the spirit, the spirit neutralizing the flesh, the law of the average asserted, this was the monks as they paced backward and forward.
But Maria's assumption, that no one had a further vision, no one was more elect than herself, that we are all one flesh and blood and being, was even more false.
Though spirit strove with spirit, in mortal conflict, during the sex-passion, yet the flesh united with flesh in oneness.
The flesh was supreme and god-like, in the oneness of the flesh, in the oneness of our physical being, we are one with God, with the Father.
I stopped to look at her, suddenly fascinated by her handsome naked flesh that shone like brass.
In the flesh there is connexion, but only in the spirit is there a new thing created out of two different antithetic things.
And no wonder, after Hamlet's 'O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt!
Michelangelo rejects any feeling of corruption, he stands by the flesh, the flesh only.
The male spirit, which would subdue the immediate flesh to some conscious or social purpose, is overthrown.
And there was the inexorable law of the flesh, the Last Judgement, the fall of the immortal flesh into Hell.
A sense of corruption in the flesh makes Hamlet frenzied, for he will never admit that it is his own flesh.
Counsel not with fleshand blood; Loiter not for cloak or food; Right thou feelest, rush to do.
A dense cloud of smoke sprang into the air just before the muzzle of the gun.
At the same instant a flash of white fire jetted through the leafy screen, a vicious report rang out, and a shower of shot cut the water into spurting streaks all about him.
The archetypal idea was manifested in the flesh under divers modifications, upon this planet, long prior to the existence of those animal species that actually exemplify it.
And yet, left to the freedom of his own will, there is a weakness in the flesh that betrays his earthly lineage.
Of those which devourflesh were two-and-thirty kinds, answerable to threescore and four wolves.
She spiritualizes them, and one feels that they are of the same flesh and blood as one's self.
To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.
Let us be thankful that ourflesh and blood are incapable of the fury of the guillotine.
To be keyed up to a battle-pitch, and then to have the battle deferred, is a trial of flesh and spirit.
Stones and bricks filled the air, and were heard striking steel and flesh in the ranks.
The wound turned out to be slight, for the bullet had passed through, only grazing the flesh of the left arm.
This last feature would not have been an ugly one if it had not been so bony; but constant nagging had worn all the flesh away, and brought into conspicuous notice a knob in the centre of the arc, for it was a Roman.
They haven't much superfluous fleshabout them, haven't the blacks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flesh" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
