1981 December 12, David Foushee, “Pushing the Edges”, inGay Community News, volume 9, number21, page 6:
The performers were all creditable dancers as well as comedians[…] even the largest of them cavorted abouten pointe with wonderful ease, and thecorps work was extremely precise in its inaccuracies.
How to keep thecorps ſeven dayes from corruption by anointing and waſhing, without exenteration, were an hazardable peece of art, in our choiſeſt practiſe.
1667,John Milton, “Book IX”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC, lines597–601:
To mee, who with eternal Famin pine, / Alike is Hell, or Paradiſe, or Heaven, / There beſt, where moſt with ravin I may meet; / Which here, though plenteous, all too little ſeems / To ſtuff this Maw, this vaſt unhide-boundCorps.
1788, [Vicesimus Knox],Winter Evenings: or, Lucubrations on Life and Letters, volume II, Dublin:[…] Messrs. Chamberlaine, Moncrieffe, White,[…], page70:
Did I poſſeſs the power of reſuſcitation, I would reanimate thy lifeleſscorps, and cheriſh thee in the warmeſt corner of thy favourite dwelling-place.
1818, John Palmer,Journal of Travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, Performed in the Year 1817:[…], London:[…] Sherwood, Neely, and Jones,[…], page92:
The women looked like dead bodies; and never did I see such a sepulchral appearance as their dress and colourless faces exhibited, they were all dressed alike in drab gowns, white neck kerchiefs, and a cap fitting close over their ears, and fastened under the chin, the same sort as are placed on acorps.
