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The Carrion Crow and Turkey-Buzzard possess great power of recollection, so as to recognise at a great distance a person who has shot at them, and even the horse on which he rides. -- John James Audubon
Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy. -- JoAnn Ross
For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion. -- Alexander Pope
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger. -- John Harvey Kellogg
The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops. -- Cormac McCarthy
Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial. -- William Shakespeare
The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, Since every victim-carrion turns to use, And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth, Against each piled injustice. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food. -- John Harvey Kellogg

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