Careful Words

corpse (n.)

  He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.

Daniel Webster (1782-1852): Speech on Hamilton, March 10, 1831. P. 200.

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,

To come to me: of cureless ills thou art

The one physician. Pain lays not its touch

Upon a corpse.

Aeschylus (525-456 b c): Frag. 250 (trans. by Plumptre).