There could be no mistaking the desiccated corpse for anything other than what it was.

Beyond the next curve there was a desiccated corpse in the path.

In those cases all that was found were the abandoned Heechee ships and a few desiccated corpses.

Upon the ruins of the rack a desiccated corpse had long ago broken apart.

White bones gleaming in the moonlight were mostly all that remained of the desiccated corpse.

Then, beneath one of the trees, she saw, with an internal shock, the desiccated corpse of a bird.

"Died killing each other," Mildred said, studying the desiccated corpses.

Ryan had never seen so many desiccated corpses, piled and tangled one upon another.

Two desiccated corpses, one of which is a child, dangle from a chain.

"That's for sure," he said, walking over confidently to the desiccated corpse.