For decades the Gowanus Canal has been a dead zone, a post-industrial wasteland of garbage-strewn lots, dumped corpses and raw sewage awash in fetid water.

Bin Laden is dead, his corpse dumped into the sea, where the spent force of Irene has dissipated, too.

During the pillage of 1204, Basil's grave was ravaged by the invading Crusaders, and his corpse dumped into the street, but the epitaph is preserved in later manuscripts.

The animated corpses dumped him on the ground before a human, a living man in this sea of dead or reptilian enemies.

This wasn't Beijing, this was the Holy City, but last year there'd been troops brought in by the thousand to quell the uprising, and more monasteries burned and more corpses dumped into military trucks and taken away for mass burial in the gaping earth with the bulldozers standing by.

Zeb: I felt better after I got that "ranger's" corpse dumped and the garage door closed, everyone indoors.

To cap it all (and to the great consternation of the Americans in the audience), a white ram is sacrificed, its bloody corpse later dumped out of sight behind a drinks booth, where it will no longer offend eyes accustomed to more discreet forms of butchery.