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  • The image, with its un-plucked fowls, beef head ecorche, intestine-cased sausages, and blood puddings, is an essay in carnality, and it has the stink of death as well.

    John Seed: Fast Food Art vs. Slow Food Art 2010

  • The image, with its un-plucked fowls, beef head ecorche, intestine-cased sausages, and blood puddings, is an essay in carnality, and it has the stink of death as well.

    John Seed: Fast Food Art vs. Slow Food Art 2010

  • J'ai des nouvelles de ce coté d'ailleurs puisqu'ajd'hui vers midi et quart, genre l'heure ou tu manges et que personne est censé t'appeler, un monsieur qui ecorche mon nom de famille me demande si je recherche encore un emploi.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • And here endeth this lesson, or rather this study made from the ecorche, to borrow a most graphic term from the studio, for in this history it is not so much intended to portray love as to lay bare its mechanism and its dangers.

    A Woman of Thirty 2007

  • “I thought that plaster of Paris figure was not the only ecorche in the room.”

    The Newcomes 2006

  • A momentary devotion to him helped her, and lifting her eyes as bidden she regarded this human remnant, this _ecorche_, a second time.

    A Group of Noble Dames Thomas Hardy 1884

  • It is well for the artist to study the ecorche in the dissecting-room, but we do not want the

    Over the Teacups Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • It is well for the artist to study the ecorche in the dissecting-room, but we do not want the

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • "I thought that plaster of Paris figure was not the only ecorche in the room."

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • And here endeth this lesson, or rather this study made from the _ecorche_, to borrow a most graphic term from the studio, for in this history it is not so much intended to portray love as to lay bare its mechanism and its dangers.

    A Woman of Thirty Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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