Governing groups

Usage examples of bodies.

Two of the infiltrators were lying contentedly in the gravel, engulfing the bodies of their deceased comrades without a care for the crossbow quarrels sticking straight up, but half a dozen others were making straight for the farrowing pens.

Their apparently ineffectual bodies were deceptive for the Glan were structurally twice as strong as Lotharians and equal to their scaly space neighbors, the Ertois.

He gritted his teeth, wanting to race down the walk-belt of the 235th Hall, but he doggedly matched his step with the other hundreds in that rippling sea of bodies.

He could hear a snuffling, the outraged mumble, the slight flurry of moving bodies.

Instinctively he bent to pick it up as two small bodies came bounding toward him and skidded to a stop.

AND THE First Speaker's voice projected sharply through the startled hubbub caused by Third's empassioned peroration, "we abandon the planet now, with no logical explanation for the disappearance -- and I see no logical explanation short of killing our people outright and leaving their bodies to be found .

And Reeve shuddered to think of Todd caroming off bodies and on toes on the city sidewalks, of his voice echoing through an entire level of Aisle flats, of Pat's desperate measures to control the rebel they had released on the world and to minimize the penalties exacted for such social misdemeanors.

Showing no more courtesy to his confreres than toward Hu Shih, the man pushed past intervening bodies until he stood alone, eyeing Reeve patronizingly.

Their smooth-muscled bodies were as large as tree trunks and covered by tough protective scales.

The maintenance equipment and freight-loaders were made for bodies a good deal bigger than any Hayuman or Hrruban.

The medic handled them both very gently as she went carefully over their entire bodies, then guided them to a host of strange, Gringg-sized machines.

He and Coypu arose with more grace than their lumbering bodies suggested they were capable of.

Two slaves, friends of hers, had been crushed under the massive bodies of Cat teni during a free-for-all.

Joe reached the curb and fell, momentarily lost under the bounding bodies.

They were told that their bodies were physically stunted to fit in the shells.