What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.
Shut your eyes and see.
People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.
Let my country die for me.
But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.