Sentences with phrase «like carrion»

we found thee by the gallows like a carrion - crow.

Even contaminated food generally doesn't get a chance to harm a dog, which is why dogs can consume nasty stuff like carrion and suffer no ill effects.

Although they seem to like carrion, studies show that they also hunt live prey with a stealthy approach followed by a sudden short charge, during which they can run briefly at speeds up to 20 km / h (about 13 mph).

In A.D. 542, during the savage Plague of Justinian, the citizens of Constantinople buried their dead in towers along the city walls and, when there was no more room, in massive pits into which corpses were flung like carrion.

Not exact matches

Yet, that deja vu would appear completely lost, on the opportunistic brood that clambered to his Minna hill top mansion, like vultures swooping on a thick ooze of carrion — political carrion of lazy and illicit advantage.

Europe's oil companies are hovering like a flock of carrion birds over the carcass of Gaddafi's regime.

Another carrion plant, the Stapelia gigantean, may look like a starfish, but it smells like death.

The smell attracts insects that usually go for carrion, like flies and beetles, and the flower uses them to help spread its pollen.

Like vultures, crows are carrion birds and have a general air of otherwordly spookiness.

It's like comparing carrion and dung: which do you prefer?

The discharge, as you can imagine, has been described as carrion - like: «a plant that smells like rotting flesh» and is thick, dark and bloody.

Other works like «Dark Stuff» (below) are mind - boggling in their eclectic choice of materials, edging on almost grotesque — 189 mummified animals, consisting of 67 field mice, 5 adult rats, 42 juvenile rats, 44 garden shrews, 1 fox, 1 squirrel, 1 weasel, 13 carrion crows, 7 jackdaws, 1 blackbird, 1 sparrow, 1 robin, 1 toad, 1 gecko, 3 garden snail shells.