But this dried corpse, with its parchment-like skin drawn tightly over the bony frame, the limbs still preserving their shape, sound teeth, abundant hair, and finger and toe nails of frightful length, this desiccated mummy startled us by appearing just as it had lived countless ages ago.
Mais ça cadavre, la peau tendue et parcheminée, les membres encore moelleux,--à la vue du moins,--les dents intactes, la chevelure abondante, les ongles des doigts et des orteils d'une grandeur effrayante, se montrait à nos yeux tel qu'il avait vécu.