ETTA CROUCHED IN the stern with Wintrow's sodden body in her arms.

The sodden body of the drowned man was shoved across to him.

He pulled at the tattered clothes that were stuck to his sodden body.

The warmth of the sun which was melting the ice also melted the chill from their sodden bodies, and began to dry the unicorn's waterlogged wings.

She was shaking andsobbing, and holding the sodden body of the monkey to her chest.

Below the Feyn River estuary, timbers and sodden bodies bob in the heavy swells, and the whiteness of death seeps toward him.

He lifted Amerie's sodden body in a jackknife bend to empty the lungs of water, then filled them with his own warm air.

Curd whimpered and jumped back and forth over Klils' sodden body.

How many people might now be spared a relentless decline into end-stage heart, kidney, or liver disease, hopelessly clinging to life with a sodden body invaded and drained by machines, the only prospect death?

The other is that one morning, at about eight o'clock, an artillery round will pass through the paper ceiling of this room and blow this sodden body and its worthless property straight up to heaven.