Body snatcher

"Body snatcher" in a Sentence (13 examples)

They proved to be two of those Body-Snatchers, called hired Constables, who were patrolling the Fields.

Look here, my body-snatchers, you have unlawfully abridged the liberty of one of the sons of the sovereign State of New York!

A black woman told Carrie not to say master and missis, because you were body-snatchers and slave-drivers.

Girls who can't let a man go by without reaching out for him. That's what I call them—body snatchers.

McCulloch had no compunction about using these executive recruiting firms. They were, he knew, often derisively called ‘body snatchers’, ‘head hunters’, ‘flesh peddlers’, and ‘pirates’.

South claims hundreds abducted by North Korea's ‘body snatchers’.

‘What are you looking at?’ ‘An alien body snatcher who stole my partner and took her place.’

Body-snatcher, a stealer of dead bodies from churchyards; which are sold to the surgeons and students in anatomy.

So emboldened and careless did these body-snatchers become... that they no longer confined themselves to pauper graves.

The head of a ring of bodysnatchers who stole the bones of broadcaster Alistair Cooke pleaded guilty yesterday.

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No men could have behaved more admirably than my Imperial bearer companies, or 'body snatchers,' as the men used to call them.

Freezing conditions in the hills make essential the quick evacuation of wounded, and their regimental mates are full of praise for the sterling job done by the cheerful, tireless “body-snatchers” of the Battalion.

Tom dismounted and led Toby toward a group of men standing by a stack of stretchers. “Hey, you body snatchers,” he called out. “I have a wound that needs dressing.” He tied Toby to a stretcher.

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