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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.
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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
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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
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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
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I also loved the scene where a young survivor is pedaling through his corpse-strewn neighborhood.
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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
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Just as swiftly, Palestinian officials accuse Israel of perpetrating a massacre and invite the foreign press to photograph the corpse-strewn rubble.
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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
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Karloff, Lugosi, Satanism, human skinning and corpse-strewn, art deco sets: all contribute to the overriding sense of dread.
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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
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