Butler's "The Way of All ___"

Usage examples of flesh.

We have evolved to expect, and in some cases actually need, the tiny amounts of rare elements that accumulate in the flesh or fiber that we eat.

The creation of Eve out of the side of Adam was either meant by the author as an allegoric illustration that the love of husband and wife is the most powerful of social bonds, or as a pure myth seeking to explain the incomparable cleaving together of husband and wife by the entirely poetic supposition that the first woman was taken out of the first man, bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh.

The history of his people, though he believed in it literally, was in its main points a didactic allegoric poem for enabling him to inculcate the doctrine that man attains the vision of God by mortification of the flesh.

Dislike him she might, but he had the power to remind her that she was still human, still a woman of warm flesh and blood, and not as immune to the physical allure of the opposite sex as she thought she was--as she wanted to be.

Syracuse was delivered by the Greeks, the apostate was slain before her walls, and his African friends were reduced to the necessity of feeding on the flesh of their own horses.

The dry heat of his flesh against hers had her hips arching in desperation.

She screamed, feeling the hard jets of his semen as she climaxed around his flesh, her hips arching, her clit erupting in pleasure, lava thundered through her veins, bubbling with the fierce ecstasy as she pulsed around him, milking his cock, soaking his flesh.

They appeal to us not religiously, not historically, not intellectually, but sensuously and artistically through their rhythmic lines, their palpitating flesh, their beauty of color, and in the light and atmosphere that surround them.

The intricate vegetarian cuisines of Japan, China, and India should make it obvious that when you eliminate most of the possibilities that nature offersall animal flesh, plus eggs and milk and nearly everything else that is white, including onions and garlicyou must show greater artistry in the kitchen rather than less.

Again, it was reasonable to mention flesh, which, as being farther away from the Word, was less assumable, as it would seem.

For the flesh would not have been assumable, except by its relation to the rational soul, through which it becomes human flesh.

The human flesh is assumable by the Word on account of the order which it has to the rational soul as to its proper form.

Therefore the Word of God is united to flesh by means of the Holy Spirit, and hence by means of grace, which is attributed to the Holy Spirit, according to 1 Cor.

The Gnostics agreed in attributing evil to matter, and made the means of redemption to consist in fastings and scourgings of the flesh, with denial of all its cravings, and in lofty spiritual contemplations.

Pitch mentioned their intended length of stay upon Azul Island, Tom laughed harder than before, and his chair creaked as though in resentment of the heavy pounds of flesh and bone that made up this man.