Word: carrion
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...perfect busybody fashion when we tumbled to the fact that Young, as a G. E. tai-kun† is just the gerant* *; of his master, J. Pierrepont Morgan,†† of private gangplank fame. The latter is certain to be found hovering where dollars are thickest-like buzzards over carrion-voilà tout...
...blue-gummed, henna-bearded gaffer, Jack Horner-like, pulls out a lump. Feverishly he wipes the gluey carrion on a corner of his burnoose. Marshallah! A rose-pink pearl, pale, perfect, which-flesh-embedded-escaped the first casual pawing of the opened shells...
...According to the Hidayah all quadrupeds that seize their prey with their teeth, all birds which seize it with their talons are unlawful because the Prophet prohibited mankind from eating them. Hyenas, foxes, elephants, weasels, pelicans, kites, carrion crows, ravens, crocodiles, otters, asses, mules, wasps and in general all insects are forbidden."-Dictionary of Islam...
When most you meet are carrion...
...sings the changes of the cycle in the life of a woman-one stony, first, as the reluctant earth, fearing the fire that moves, the force that brings lilacs out of a dead stalk whose root, fed by death, feeds death again in the carrion ground. Her career is conventional. She loves, marries and, dying, bears her child...