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Meanings of body snatcher in inglês

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Someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection.

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Examples for "ghoul"
Examples for "ghoul"
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The nearest ghoul was the closest threat, but not the greatest opportunity.
White night
2
The ghoul or fiend of modern society is the demon of alcohol.
Alvira: The Heroine of Vesuvius
3
That was the first time I had ever seen a floating ghoul.
World war z: an oral history of the zombie war
4
I was tempted, and I felt my reality trickle into the ghoul.
A nameless witch
5
He wondered if he still had the recipe to create a ghoul.
The Alchemyst
1
It was the tool of the modern-day graverobber, easy to conceal and wield.
Map of bones
2
And they're quite unscrupulous graverobbers for the most part.
Perdido Street Station
3
Burke and Hare, on the other hand, became legendary bogeymen and graverobbers as well as killers.
The Irish Times
4
"You graverobbers!" he shouted.
Swan Song
Usage of body snatcher in inglês
1
That's an improvement over your body snatcher remark the other night.
Calamity jayne
2
Or was she a body snatcher?
Damaged
3
You fucking body snatcher, I think.
The ministry of pain
4
Her gut was screaming body snatcher.
Damaged
5
But it gave him a start all the same to see, grinning at him, Carl Orc, the body snatcher.
Immortality Inc.
6
It was Old Scotty's great ambition to be a sniper or " body snatcher" as Mr. Atkins calls it.
"Over the Top," by an American Soldier Who Went / Together with ...
7
The body snatcher was unchanged, still very tall and thin, his tanned face long and mournful, his eyes narrow, direct and honest.
Immortality Inc.
8
No one had been hurt, and the body in the basement would go home with the coroner in his body snatcher truck.
Four to score
9
Where better for a doctor's housekeeper to turn from pillar of the church by day into sexual predator and body snatcher by night?
The Irish Times
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One body snatcher, when he in turn entered the graveyard (hopefully for good), left his family nearly £6,000.
Vampire forensics: uncovering the origins of an enduring legend
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England: body snatchers; burial practices; cholera outbreak; corpse desecration; executions; hill fort burials
Vampire forensics: uncovering the origins of an enduring legend
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There were nightmares about alien body snatchers and convicts with hooks for hands.
Antiphon
13
He's been invaded by fuckin' body snatchers or whatever.
John Dies at the End
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Body snatchers, known by the grimly ironic sobriquet of "resurrectionists," met the new demand.
Vampire forensics: uncovering the origins of an enduring legend
15
The body snatchers were insane about their detail.
John Dies at the End
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Hazard -call Mulder and Scully, there appears to have been an invasion of the body snatchers.
The Guardian
Translations for body snatcher
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