| 单词 | cadaverous |
| 例句 | He brushed by a gaunt, cadaverous, trustful man in a black raincoat with a star-shaped scar in his cheek and a glossy mutilated depression the size of an egg in one temple. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Luba Luft glanced at him idly, then violently as she recognized him; her eyes faded and the color dimmed from her face, leaving it cadaverous, as if already starting to decay. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z From one end of the harbor to the other, Greek soldiers, exhausted, cadaverous, unclean, limped toward the embarkation point at Chesme, southwest of the city, awaiting evacuation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Someone pointed out a cadaverous man near Hitler and told Louie that it was Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s minister of propaganda. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He was the chief gaoler, a cadaverous one-legged knight, with a scarred face and a blind eye. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At last a tall, cadaverous woman in a white smock entered the room from an inner door. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The tall, cadaverous stranger fell back in fright at the chaplain’s cry and shrieked, “Don’t hurt me!” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z And the teen vampire movie Twilight is ribbed, as Ker's cadaverous Lothario gets shirty when repeatedly told how tasty garlic is. Penny Dreadfuls 2010-08-17T21:00:00Z Yet while Harris is styled to look like Brynner did, albeit with extra cadaverous features, he’s not a robot any more. Westworld recap: episode one – a rootin' tootin' welcome to a sordid sci-fi fantasy 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Wood’s cadaverous, perpetually abstracted character rarely seems to register what Erie’s saying. Review: In ‘Hughie,’ With Forest Whitaker, Two Desolate Lost Souls 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Mary smiles sweetly; her mother gazes out of cadaverous eyes. Rothko vandalism: why are the greatest works attacked? 2012-10-08T12:42:35Z Disappointing news for lovers of chilling cadaverous terror; but the song itself, in cleaving fairly closely to Kylie's well-used formula of sparkly chart disco, is as flawless as her increasingly Formica-like visage. This week's new singles 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z The guy looks more cadaverous by the minute and his megalomaniacal fury is a slow motion train wreck, but there's no denying the guy can turn an entertaining phrase. Charlie Sheen's ego explodes on "20/20" 2011-03-02T13:30:00Z But the cadaverous members of the Berliner Ensemble who inhabit Mr. Wilson’s production, which runs through Saturday, decided not to wait to throw their own special Walpurgisnacht. | 'The Threepenny Opera': ?Threepenny Opera? With Berliner Ensemble at BAM - Review 2011-10-05T16:50:18Z With a face caked in cadaverous makeup that accentuates a cheeky smirk with teeny fangs, this bloodsucker is impossible to take seriously. Nicolas Cage, Ranked From Wild to Mild 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z It seems that the dead are rising from their graves on a “cadaverous march” — thousands of them feasting on the living in scenes of grisly violence. Review: New Novels by Paul Murray, César Aira and Others 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z In 1847, he hypothesized that puerperal fever was spread by doctors carrying “cadaverous particles” from the deadhouse to the obstetrics ward at Vienna’s General Hospital. The Story of How Surgeons Cleaned Up Their Act 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Behind St Giles's cathedral, I see another group being led around by a cadaverous man in a black robe and experience a shiver of envy. Edinburgh festival from dusk till dawn 2010-08-11T20:31:00Z He’s attractive and she’s comely, and the subtle sexual tension between them is at least as compelling as their cadaverous adventures. The 75 best TV shows on Hulu right now, according to our experts 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Kawasaki had doubts about the promised future when her ferry arrived at a North Korean port and was met by hundreds of cadaverous people covered with soot from head to toe, she said. Defectors from North Korea pray for resettlement victims 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z And with an on-field demeanor that could be considered cadaverous, he coolly notched his first save of the season with a 1-2-3 ninth. Mariners’ misfits and castoffs come together to beat Giants, win opening series 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z The first three occurred during major surgeries decades earlier, when doctors cooled his body to cadaverous temperatures and stopped his heart to repair major arteries weakened by an inherited disorder called Marfan syndrome. Pablo Sánchez, longtime Washington correspondent and producer for Univision, dies of covid-19 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z Trump calls Biden gloomy but he’s the one threatening the apocalypse if he loses — low-income hordes overrunning pristine suburbs, scary immigrants streaming north, a stock market crash and a cadaverous New York City. Opinion | King Kong Trump, Losing His Grip 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z Semmelweis hypothesised that cadaverous particles from the morgue were to blame, and that such particles on the hands of doctors were making their way into women’s bodies during childbirth. Keep it clean: The surprising 130-year history of handwashing 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z The youthful yet cadaverous adviser has long sought to redefine federal immigration rules as restrictively as possible. Trump's new crackdown on legal immigration: His base loves the cruelty 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z My favourite comment is that I look “calm and in charge” while my least favourite is that I look like Judge Roban from French detective series Spiral, a cadaverously miserable mop-headed man in his 70s. Glad to be grey: Is it time to embrace the real me? 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z There’s William S. Burroughs, the “Naked Lunch” author, who “looks cadaverously beat” and “has a healthy appetite for bennies and horse.” 'Big Bang' is a quixotic quasi-history of the wild years before JFK's assassination 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z A first wave of cadaverous firms are seeking rebirth under a bankruptcy code adopted in December 2016. India’s new bankruptcy code takes aim at delinquent tycoons 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z To test his theory, he ordered doctors to wash their hands and instruments in a chlorine solution, a substance he hoped would dispatch the deadly smell of cadaverous particles. Keep it clean: The surprising 130-year history of handwashing 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z He's also given the tall, gangling, slightly cadaverous writer ill-fitting clothes and cabbage-patch hair which he thinks were characteristic. Would Orwell want to adorn the BBC? 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Aspiring stars ask surgeons to give them an “online star face”— high forehead, round eyes, long nose, thin jaw — and use creams to keep their skin a cadaverous shade of white. How to make $100,000 a month in China, live-streaming your life 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z Nineteenth-century cultural commentators, she writes, often derided the “unnatural complexions” of the white lower classes, with their flesh the color of “yellow parchment” and their copious offspring bearing a “cadaverous, bloodless look.” “White Trash” — a cultural and political history of an American underclass 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Some tweens and even younger kids may be creeped out by the various reptilian aliens and the giant, cadaverous ruler of the evil First Order, Supreme Leader Snoke. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘The Force Awakens’ and more 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z If he can carry this form over to next season he will be welcomed with open arms no matter which jersey encases his newly cadaverous constitution. Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend's action 2013-05-20T03:53:25Z With healthy removal options and a clear focus on using cadaverous creatures as a resource, the Nekrium Faction Starter looks like an excellent introductory offering. SolForge Starter Decks Roll Out 2013-03-19T04:44:04Z Sound can affect the heads of creepily cadaverous demons because it is mechanical energy. When Science Meets Fiction 2013-01-28T03:15:00.220Z Now this cadaverous coalition is defunct, awaiting the day of internment. Greece may have to choose between the euro and the radical left 2012-07-10T14:43:00Z His face had no colour in it, and even the lips were pale, but yet the hue was not cadaverous, or even what could be called sickly. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z The King might well fail to recognise the countenance of Jerome Riquet, for it was at that moment actually cadaverous in appearance, from the various emotions that were going on in his heart. The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z He is so thin as to look almost cadaverous. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Madame shuddered as he came towards her; and he saw it, and grinned behind his cadaverous mask. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z Most distinct, however, is the cadaverous odor, sometimes perceptible for hours before death. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z But it was none other than the old factor, a very cadaverous spectacle in evening clothes much too ample for one so emaciated, who came forward with a hasty apology for his intrusion. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z The chef was a long, lean, lank, cadaverous man looking as if he wanted one of his own skewers run down him. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z Near its foot sat Mr. Parsons, a cadaverous man, with prematurely white hair, given to much thought but little speech. The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad 2012-03-02T03:00:07.920Z The first of the actors to enter was the cadaverous and irritable Stark. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z Gangrene of the gland is manifested by the cadaverous odor, blackening of the skin, the formation of a cavity, and the discharge of ichor and shreds of tissue. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z He had thought to find a woman a trifle cadaverous and sallow. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z The Doctor, summoned to the bedside of a patient, left the drawing-room hastily, and in the anteroom ran into a tall, cadaverous figure in black. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z It was a face, thus seen, so cadaverous and Mephistophelian, that an artist would have given something for a minute to fix a note of it in white and black. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z A thin, cadaverous man with a heavy, black mustache here stepped forward to face the wife he had not seen for five years. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z Garnier, the cadaverous poet, saved trouble, indulging his dislike of other people’s poverty by remaining away from it; but Seraphin, who came often and sat about the studio in a silence wholly uncharacteristic, was difficult. The Azure Rose A Novel 2011-12-31T03:00:18.657Z We were continually beset by shrivelled, cadaverous beggars; they posted themselves at every corner, and besought us, by the Blessed Virgin, to give them alms. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z They were frightfully cadaverous and pale, showing distinctly in their countenances the pernicious influence of such a poisoned and tobacco impregnated atmosphere upon their constitutions. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z Who is that pale, thin-lipped man, “with cadaverous aspect and broken beak,” whose eyes never seem to light up, but maintain their dismal darkness while his pale lips smile? Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z In Forbes' eyes it had a sickly, cadaverous glimmer as of death and dissolution. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z The company rose when they espied Cartaret, the cadaverous poet Garnier picking up his plate of roast chicken so as not to lose, in his welcoming, time that might be given to eating. The Azure Rose A Novel 2011-12-31T03:00:18.657Z "Good night", said cadaverous fellow-passenger, feebly walking out of darkling station. Mr. Punch in the Highlands 2011-11-01T02:00:23.677Z His countenance was cadaverous, and was eternally agitated, by something between a grin and a simper. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z The male subject was an unmarried man, aged forty-two, of cadaverous appearance, much emaciated, with clammy, perspiring skin, and habitual coldness of the extremities; he suffered much from dyspepsia and palpitation of the heart. Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it 2011-10-03T02:00:31.460Z His long black hair fell in neglected curls on his shoulders, and formed a dark frame round the pale, cadaverous face, on which sorrow, genius, and hell had engraved their indestructible lines. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z We chartered some cadaverous frameworks which some dirty little boys assured us were horses. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z They were not men, but the debris of men, moving with awful volition, merely a bright cadaverous mask hovering in a void, or two arms upheld, or a black headless trunk. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z And here Pauline gave the gentleman's bony and cadaverous face one of those glances which those who liked her best thought the most charming. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z He looked careworn; his countenance had assumed a cadaverous hue, and there was a haggardness and lankness about his cheeks and mouth, which could not fail to attract the notice of every spectator. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z The ship’s boy, a cadaverous, pasty, red-eyed, drooping-jawed youngster from the Cove o’ First Cousins, gasped in a painful way. Every Man for Himself 2011-08-09T02:00:26.920Z The bronzed faces of these black-eyed, gypsy-like women were very cadaverous, as though the land of their adoption did not particularly agree with them. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z Through the binoculars next morning I inspected with peculiar interest the row of cadaverous heads, with black tousled hair, lemon-coloured skins, open mouths and vacant eyes, which stared at us over her rails. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z He was of a most haggard, cadaverous aspect, and his lean body attenuated. Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs 2011-08-04T02:00:26.337Z His penetrating gaze was again fixed upon the almost cadaverous features with their snow-white crown and noble forehead. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z I look out, and see gangs of cadaverous savages drinking gloomily from brown mugs, and swearing at each other every time they open their lips. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z The average people, both high and low, are sallow, undersized, and cadaverous. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z He stood in the light of the only door,—his features wan and cadaverous, and his countenance wretchedly haggard. The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II 2011-07-18T02:00:20.080Z He was long-legged and cadaverous, with thin, sandy hair and a yellowish moustache that never seemed to be trimmed. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z She was a woman of, I should say, forty, with a cadaverous face, a shapeless nose, and enormous hands. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Howells, in his "Cambrian Superstitions," says that the Cyhoeraeth is a being with dishevelled hair, long black teeth, lank withered arms, a frightful voice, and cadaverous appearance. Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore 2011-07-06T02:00:50.100Z “Likely we are going to have our window bossed by some cadaverous brass-band player at the other end of the room.” Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z What! would it take him from the thin, cadaverous fellow he too often is, and do all that for him? How to Get Strong and How to Stay So 2011-07-01T02:00:12.520Z A sardonic grin curled his thin lips, and his short, crisply curled hair, raven-black in hue, contrasted forcibly and disagreeably with his cadaverous complexion. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z As each gaslight was passed the flash came over the cadaverous face opposite him, and sparks of fire kindled momentarily in the stony eyes. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z His features were sallow, one might almost say cadaverous, with a bright tinge of red upon his prominent cheek-bones. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z The poor man was in bed, and very dirty, but as sensible as he ever had been; and he welcomed the rector with cadaverous grins. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z There nothing is to be feared of the cadaverous emanations," said La Liberté "an impure blood will water the soil of the labourer, fecundating it. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z The last telegraphic dispatch had brought news of victory; we both hastened to the Duke of Otranto; he assured us with all his cadaverous coldness that he knew nothing. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z Just here a maiden lady of uncertain age, cadaverous cheeks, and a high, squeaky voice, piped out,—“I believe I’ll go.” The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z The beauty that had once shone in her countenance might still to some extent have remained—for Cara Popetta was scarce turned thirty—but for a scar of cadaverous hue, that traversed the left cheek. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z Mr. Goode, a tall, cadaverous man, moved shyly about the house, in which he occupied a minor position. The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z He had a thin, cadaverous face with a beaked nose, and he wore enormous horn spectacles. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z “All but me—fer the island,” announced the man in advance of the rest, a cadaverous person with a Vermont twang in his voice. Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman 2011-04-14T02:00:39.800Z For a moment the settled melancholy of his cadaverous face lightened. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z The hair was dark—the skin slightly cadaverous—though the features were not disagreeable to look upon. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z He had gone out for a solitary pull, and had no sooner started than a cadaverous creature with a tow-rope pestered him for a job. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z That priest with the cadaverous mask keeps his snaky looks ever fastened on me. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z Mr. Spellman appeared, a smooth-shaven man of indefinite age, with dark shadows in the face, and cadaverous. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z Now here, now there, the long, cadaverous figure rose amidst the crowd, and his eyes were fixed watchfully upon the amber merchant. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z I don’t want brandy,” said the old man, gazing at him wildly, and with his face now cadaverous in the extreme. The Vicar's People 2011-02-25T03:01:16.160Z A cadaverous priest was the first to step ashore, casting around him glances of intolerable pride. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z AT the sight of the lean, cadaverous features of the Belgian Barcroft had to exercise a tremendous lot of restraint to control his desire to utter some sort of exclamation. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z He was a tall, cadaverous, facetious individual, slightly stooped, with thin impassive face, deep eyes, and a beard that seemed always just two days old. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z Denton spoke in hollow tones, bending over the sick man, and shaking his cadaverous features impressively at each word. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z Her look was one of approval—it could not be of æsthetic approval, like the look Percy Saville devoted to herself, for her husband was a cadaverous little man with prominent ears and teeth. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z As they live exposed to the fatal, poisonous miasma of the swamp, their complexions are cadaverous, and their persons wasted by disease. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z The Franciscan monk was about twenty-five years of age, and of a cadaverous, austere countenance. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z The elder of the two was an extremely tall, cadaverous, and grizzled man of perhaps sixty years of age. The House of Strange Secrets A Detective Story 2011-01-15T03:00:37.173Z Very prominent among this latter class was a certain individual of cadaverous complexion and yellow moustache, at the sight of whom Lamont started with a short oath of gratification. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z Entering one to obtain a drink of water we found two tall, cadaverous young men, both of them shaking with ague. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z He looked gaunt and cadaverous, and much of his old reckless joyousness had left him, though he brightened up wonderfully on seeing an old friend. The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z The lanthorn, placed upon the floor, threw upward a bright light streaked with hard, black shadows upon the cadaverous, ascetic and haggard features of Herv�. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z The spectre is a hideous being with dishevelled hair, long black teeth, long, lank, withered arms, leathern wings, and a cadaverous appearance. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z Not only that, but Seattle's offense was downright cadaverous in the second half, failing to so much as cross midfield. Seahawks' offensive issues are the main problem 2010-10-05T18:15:00Z Even with their powers in decline, they linger and pad and fill, their floppy-limbed, cadaverous bodies still powered relentlessly forward into battle by their own highly motivated PR machinery. Barney Ronay: the time was right for Flintoff's farewell 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z If this is your sample, then yes, the biopic does look cadaverous. Making biopics: What's truth got to do with?it? 2010-07-18T22:01:00Z Tall, cadaverous, dressed in ripped jeans, brown jacket, black tie, battered trainers. 'I'm an information activist' 2010-07-13T23:05:00Z I wrote up the facts on a manual typewriter and passed it to a blotchy-faced cadaverous man at the copy desk and it went into the paper that landed on people's doorsteps the next morning. Where's our old-fashioned government jobs program? 2010-04-07T00:20:00Z That instinct and chance had led him to a native house where his disloyalty gave him a welcome, and there he had found sanctuary until his fever subsided and he emerged cadaverous, but free. The Law of Hemlock Mountain The Putrid Ulcer is that wherein the Flesh is soft and scabby, the Pus and Ichor being viscous, stinking, and of a cadaverous smell. The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. These dreary, cadaverous corpses are supported in the positions which they are made to assume by means of steel wires hidden beneath their scanty robes. The Story of Malta A tinge of health returned to his cadaverous cheeks, and for a time his moustache looked less out of keeping and proportion. Witching Hill Sometimes, where they were intersected by wider thoroughfares, an arc-lamp fizzed above the shape of a solitary policeman, and the corner-houses stood out sharper and more cadaverous. Sinister Street, vol. 2 In a few minutes the statistician returned, bringing with him a tall, cadaverous man, whose leanness was heightened by a long chin beard, which descended upon his chest to the middle button of his coat. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories After the fans had begun to move again, the cadaverous minister rose from his seat and in harsh, nasal tones announced the hymn. With Edge Tools A half-naked, starving army of beggars—men, women, and children—stared one in the face, their cadaverous features and attenuated forms, all too clearly defined, appealing for them with more eloquence than words could do. The Story of Malta The body was laid out on a mat, anointed with scented oil, and the face tinged with turmeric, to soften the cadaverous look. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II On the lounge, watching the game with sardonic contempt, sat the cadaverous Mr. Lazarus Lowch, the foreman of the jury at the inquest on Levison, and but a rare visitor to the billiard-room. A Traitor's Wooing She is of the lean cadaverous order of womankind, and is bony to the last degree. Faith and Unfaith From his cadaverous face eyes gleamed as if with a newly-born hope. The Gray Mask When the last, the twelfth, a cadaverous individual, was accepted the stage was set. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident Florette on the contrary closes her eyes firmly; her face becomes cadaverous; her bluish lips are convulsively pressed; she awaits death. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades A lean, cadaverous, lantern-jawed creature, more resembling the galvanized corpse of a dyspeptic ourang-outang than a man, he stalked the earth full of petty guile and mischief. A Traitor's Wooing He is a spare, rather cadaverous man, who lives among Egyptian mummies and Assyrian tablets and palimpsests and first editions, and knows nothing of any statesman later than Cardinal Wolsey. Windyridge While they are strangely interesting as a study they are never attractive, with their cringing, servile manners and dirty gabardines, their cadaverous faces, piercing black eyes, their hooked noses and ringleted locks. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia Soon we saw a most cadaverous, tall and poverty-stricken looking individual approaching in an erratic manner, and we could now hear his low-toned mutterings as he darted here and there. The Bright Side of Prison Life Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in Rebellion Alas! the first glance brought a prevision of trouble; she saw before her the stooping form, the thin, cadaverous face of the “Hermit,” occupant of Number 9. The Daughters of a Genius “Right—all right?” said Sir Murray, whose face wore a cadaverous hue. The Sapphire Cross He pulled at it, and slowly the fat face of the stout little passenger appeared, and close to his that of the thin man, the one with cadaverous cheeks. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War Next there rises before me the vision of Howard Hinton—a big, cadaverous, grey-haired man, preaching in a small chapel on the site in Shoreditch now occupied by the Great Eastern Railway. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself To him succeeded, I regret p. 82to say, two men in seedy black, with dirty white chokers, and cadaverous faces, whose portraits were I to give, you would tell me I was drawing a caricature. Here and There in London Your private secretary, couple of thou a year, and one of these cadaverous, ink-smudged chaps to do the work. Jacob's Ladder He was pale and cadaverous looking with scanty hair and drooping moustache: in shape he was very like a beetle, with limbs markedly bowed and held away from his stooping body. The Heart of a Woman The most regular caller was the Comte Desmaisons, a thin, cadaverous man. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels The winter wind is not so unkind as this cadaverous man’s ingratitude to the gendarmes for their kindly act. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday "Look at Flood, boys—there's the old vulture with broken beak and cadaverous aspect—a groan for Flood," and the demand was answered by thousands. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago Here it is: Two Hours of Unalloyed Fun and Happiness Will put two inches of solid fat even upon the ribs of the most cadaverous old miser. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things Captain Rannie came out of the chart room from which his lean and cadaverous head had been projecting to deliver his homily on obeying orders, and looked all round at the white walls of fog. Command To associate a golden fortune with those two shabby and cadaverous birds of prey was too much. Captain Macedoine's Daughter One cannot but be impressed as much through the picturesqueness of the scene presented by the half-naked, ragged, cadaverous throng as by the sad moral which these poor creatures suggest. The Pearl of India Her gray mists haunt the sunset skies, And build the west's cadaverous fire, Where Sorrow sits with lonely eyes, And hands that wake her ancient lyre, Beside the ghost of dead Desire. Undertones One seems to be pursued by, and impregnated with, a smell of cadaverous putrefaction. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things He was the son of an Armenian by a native woman, and, consequently, of fair complexion, which his confinement caused to look cadaverous. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment Within three minutes a cadaverous looking workman in a red blouse lounged up to our table, ordered his glass of tea, nodded to me as if I was an old acquaintance, and muttered the formula. The Red Symbol In our play at the taking of the Bastille, we must have a starving crowd—hungry, eager, cadaverous 394 faces. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 The King's cadaverous visage was set in long locks of grey hair that reached almost to his waist. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres The Surgeon and his assistants were all on hand, as the various squads, colicky and cadaverous, came to a focus in front of the tent. Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6) His Transformation From A Raw Recruit To A Veteran Presently an overpowering torpor succeeded his restlessness, and Louis remained plunged in apparent calmness, although his features were rapidly becoming cadaverous. The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium The cadaverous aspect of the devil is traditional. Devil Stories An Anthology Black immediately called Charles Wythe, found his broker's cadaverous face puzzled. The Psilent Partner He encountered a cadaverous bony-looking woman, very tall, very old, though with hair still black; with grey eyes, and false gleaming teeth. The Witches of New York Some stars shone timidly o'erhead; And toward the west's cadaverous red— Like some wild dream that haunts the dead In limbo—the lean moon was led. The Garden of Dreams I took her man for a Presbyterian preacher the minute I struck the ranch; maybe it's poor health gives him that cadaverous look, but you can't most always tell. Stories of the Foot-hills When the pike was dusty and the horses walked they were frequently overtaken and passed by cavalcades of lank, hard-faced men in dingy homespun, and cadaverous women with snuff-sticks and slouched sun-bonnets. John March, Southerner He was a thin man from top to bottom, a shock of unruly black hair topping an almost cadaverous face, blue eyes large behind thick lenses. Infinite Intruder "What devil's work is this?" demanded the cadaverous Sowles, blinking as the lights went on. Telempathy In stature he was about five feet ten inches high, with a long, cadaverous face, light hair, slight beard, closely shaven, and had a small goatee, very light in color. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital His hair was plastered down on both cadaverous cheeks, his shirtfront was a mass of pulp, and his wet clothes clinging closely to him brought into full relief every bony angle of his figure. The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out But all this won no reflection in the cadaverous mask of the burglar; his shifty, green-colored eyes were as hard as stone, and as pitiless. Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist “May it please y’r honour, the critter got a chill and done died,” announced the cadaverous Missourian, to whose care the animal had been confided. Gold But this–this is new adventure and–” “And deadly dangerous,” reminded the cadaverous, thin-faced officer at the far end of the table. Aces Up Again came that frightful grin to his cadaverous face. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 Judging from the lines in his cadaverous face the last three minutes had added years to his age. The Pines of Lory "And she didn't take it all out in looks," said Big Slim, with the grin still upon his cadaverous face. Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist Both felt the snake eyes of the cadaverous chief dwelling on their backs. The Pathless Trail In fatal cases the breath has a peculiar, fetid, cadaverous odor, and is taken in short gasps; the horns, ears, and extremities become cold and clammy, and the pulse is imperceptible. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle And so was drawn thro dark cadaverous with the sound of gabbling dead. Nirvana Days Some of them possess two and even three cadaverous dogs, taught to follow closely at their heels, as they wander about, and having the same shriveled-up, half-starved aspect as their masters. Due South or Cuba Past and Present So cadaverous a realm could breed little else. Westward with the Prince of Wales That other type, the "camelot,"—he of the callous, cadaverous face, thinly clad body, cunning eyes, husky lungs,—was more familiar. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life Camera men were busy; a cadaverous and profane director, with his shabby coat-collar turned up, was talking loudly in a Broadway voice and jargon to a bewildered girl wearing a ball gown. The Crimson Tide A Novel Lady George could remark that the bald-headed old gentleman behind and a cadaverous youth who was near to him were particularly energetic in stamping on the ground. Is He Popenjoy? She did not speak, but held up a cross with its attachments, accompanied by a look so cadaverous, so weak and pitiful, that she got the silver she desired and kept her beads. Aztec Land His face was less cadaverous; the 30 deep searing furrows were less pronounced. The Hound From The North Ten feet away, standing motionless beside an old stump, stood a cadaverous fellow whose rags suggested the moss that hung from the trees. A Mountain Boyhood He is tall, cadaverous, rugged, and he can open his eyes so wide that the whites of them show all round the irises. The Red Hand of Ulster In the small circle of light a long, cadaverous face appeared. The End of Time His cheeks were sunken and cadaverous with too much travel; his body was limp with over-work. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin Their host possessed a long, attenuated, but powerful figure, and a face chiefly remarkable for its 23 cadaverous hollows and a pair of hungry eyes and a dark chin-whisker. The Hound From The North Utterly still they were—and the cadaverous countenances exposed between robe and hood betrayed not the slightest twitch. When the Sleepers Woke Save for the extreme, cadaverous pallor, there was no mark of death. Salvage in Space Once, at night, they had no other shelter than a wretched cabin built with the bones of animals, which still emitted a cadaverous odour. Pius IX. And His Time The heat of the summer sun combined with the internal burning of his indignation would have produced apoplexy in a less cadaverous person. Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro His spare and cadaverous figure was always clothed in dark colours. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories He was a lean, pale youth, but with as cadaverous a face as I have ever looked upon; and when he spoke his voice appeared to come from the back of his head. The Man Who Drove the Car The morning fog and the cadaverous features of the shepherds have warned us that the teeming Campidano is no place to linger in after nightfall. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. The winter markets of Moscow and St. Petersburg present some of the most cadaverous specimens of the startling humor in which the Russians delight. The Land of Thor He held the paper in a thin cadaverous hand as though quite unacquainted with his visitor's name and not at all curious to be enlightened. Aladdin of London or, Lodestar They have no burnt offerings but near their sepulchers, which with gum, burnt likewise, may only arise from a defense of cadaverous scents. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century She, however, had made it clear that the cadaverous, saturnine pedagogue possessed for her no attractions. Malcolm Sage, Detective His cadaverous face became of a white, sickly hue; and his habitual look of malice rapidly gave way to an expression of terror. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West A cadaverous horse, knee-sprung and wheezy, dragged the van at the gait of a caterpillar. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 A man of medium height, squarely built and of fine physique, he had the face rather of a substantial German than of the usually somewhat cadaverous Pole. Aladdin of London or, Lodestar In a few moment a well-dressed, narrow-faced, bald-headed, rather cadaverous man was shown in. The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance Now as Don took both her hands and smiled in the old joyous way she thought that he looked ill, almost cadaverous, in spite of the tan which clung to his skin. The Orchard of Tears For the rest, he had black hair, thin and limp—shaggy dark brows, set obliquely—face without beard, of pale cadaverous hue, and surmounted by a parrot-beak nose of large dimensions. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West He laughed and stopped to examine one of the posters of the “Elfscharfrichters,”—the one of the cadaverous lady all in black, with her hands outspread. A Woman's Will But the later stools will again be thin and of cadaverous odor. Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated His face was gray and cadaverous, with deep lines engraved upon it from suffering. An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet Her large, black, cadaverous physiognomy was relieved by dark sunken eyes, and by a pair of mustaches shading the corners of her lips. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 For a queer second I did see ourselves in that inevitable mirror, but cadaverous and out-of-date and palsied—a dusty set of old waxworks, simpering inanely in the lumber-room of Time. More Trivia What shall I do with you, you cadaverous little jackanapes? The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... In person he was cadaverous and blackavized, and his hair was dressed in long curls, which at a little distance looked like black candles, and gave a singularly threatening expression to his handsome countenance. Peter and Wendy With dark olive skins, cadaverous faces and often a good growth of beard, they were a hard-looking lot. The Tale of a Trooper His white, cadaverous face, prominent cheek bones, aquiline nose, piercing eyes, and wild, disheveled hair giving him a strange, weird appearance. The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad He looked odder than ever, and so ill and cadaverous. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster "Another, a cadaverous fellow, with a plausible tongue." A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time One or two put on calico dressing-gowns, which appeared to have been placed ready for the purpose; and among these was the cadaverous man of the black hair. The Bertrams The same gray, cadaverous hue, the same dark and stony stare. As We Sweep Through The Deep He did not look up at the white, cadaverous face and great, blazing orbs, which gleamed with fury upon him, although he knew full well that those eyes were on him. The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad The cadaverous maid lifted an embroidered bodice from one of the chairs and laid it in one of the black trunks; she looked like a female undertaker laying a dead baby in its coffin. Fair Margaret A Portrait He was an elderly man, rather tall, slim of build, and somewhat cadaverous of feature, with light straw-coloured hair and goatee beard that was fast changing to white. With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure Her lower jaw had fallen so as to give a monstrous extension to her cadaverous face. The Bertrams The old woman raised an idiotic, cadaverous face, with a goitre swaying upon her throat as large as the rustic bell of a Swiss cow. Tartarin On The Alps His thin, cadaverous face was sufficient in itself to inspire wonder. The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad The cadaverous maid looked on with curiosity and said nothing. Fair Margaret A Portrait Wayfarer and forester forgot to scan bush and bracken for the deadly and cadaverous form of Basil. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea The rosy light of the candelabrum beamed upon his cadaverous lips. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Then came a very old lady's face, quite life-like, and Mrs. Holmes informed us that the cadaverous people were those only recently deceased. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis His thin, cadaverous face, smooth shaven and of an ashen hue, was upturned to heaven, and those great, awful eyes seemed gazing on things unlawful for man to see. The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad The cadaverous maid instantly picked it up and began smoothing it. Fair Margaret A Portrait Men's faces assume a cadaverous hue similar to that given at night by the flame of spirits of wine and salt, a livid funereal light, the sinister illumination of the world's last hour. Astronomy for Amateurs Among the latter, Calhoun, in bristling hair, cadaverous face, and high shirt collar, looked 'the unkindest cut of all.' The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy He was a cadaverous man with high cheekbones and short, bristly black hair and a tiny black moustache. The Green Rust Their faces, set, as in plaster cast along cadaverous lines, deeply furrowed and caked with dust, perspiration, and powder smoke, made hideous appearance. The Greater Love The cadaverous maid came up very quickly from behind, overtaking them with Margaret's grey linen duster. Fair Margaret A Portrait Elevate a person ten or twelve thousand feet above the sea-level and his whole texture expands: a wrinkled, cadaverous person fills out as plump as a youth. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Markham describes meeting with a party of them emerging from the forest,—cadaverous, miserable-looking men, almost worn to death by fatigue and hardship. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America But I have no apprehension of any return of the serious part of the malady, and I am now recovering my strength, though looking somewhat cadaverous upon the occasion. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) The florid ruddiness of his fleshy face faded to a pallor more cadaverous than the unhealthy grey of Louis' sunken cheeks as he remembered Molembrais. The Justice of the King Lushington got up and opened, and the dark figure of the cadaverous maid appeared in the dim light. Fair Margaret A Portrait His face was cadaverous, with large goggling eyes, high cheek bones, hair long and ragged, reminding me of a rat’s nest, thin lips, and ears large almost as an elephant’s. Japhet in Search of a Father He straightened up at last, with a sigh, then 99looked at me with his eyebrows drawn and a look of perplexity on his thin, cadaverous face. The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle Is that a tall, cadaverous man in the Wessex? Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 The King shrank as if he had been struck and the cadaverous face grew yet more ghastly. The Justice of the King If she had been used to her cadaverous maid, too, she would have seen that the woman's manner was growing more deferential each time she saw her. Fair Margaret A Portrait Just across the aisle sat a middle-aged man with a clean-shaven, cadaverous face and rusty black clothes. The Camp in the Snow, or, Besieged by Danger It looked shrunken and cadaverous and his lips had assumed a peculiar cherry-red color. The Eye of Osiris The Jablochoff candle light which flooded the pilot room accentuated the haggardness of their features, which were a sickly cadaverous hue. The Sky Trap The Dauphin was on the threshold, half dressed, his shoes unbuckled, his laces awry, his face cadaverous in its pallor. The Justice of the King A moment came when Margaret felt that she could no longer bear the close atmosphere of the small room and the curious eyes of the cadaverous maid, watching her as she walked up and down. Fair Margaret A Portrait A serious faced, cadaverous individual, whom, given three guesses you would have judged to be a Scotch free kirk minister in mufti; an actor in the melodramatic line; a food crank. The Man Who Lost Himself The cadaverous gentleman at your store, whose face has been passed over by some heavy body, proved both unsympathetic and suspicious this morning when I asked him for them. No Man's Land He was on the high road to recovery, but I thought he would never be the same handsome Jack again, so cadaverous was his countenance and so changed his voice. A Little Union Scout And russet, cadaverous pink, They mingle, compaginate, And their voices mingle, They call me out of the frame, They call, Thinly and crazily, Canal, canal, canal—slimy, crawly-crawly water! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 She was very sure of herself, and the cadaverous maid watched her with curiosity and admiration, wondering very much whether such pride might not go before a fall, and end in a violent stage fright. Fair Margaret A Portrait The cadaverous Cavendish, who, from his outward appearance presented no signs of a sense of humour, exploded at this hit, but Simms remained unmoved. The Man Who Lost Himself There was nothing in his appearance to suggest kin to the lean and cadaverous Professor. David Malcolm Such a lank, cadaverous visage I don’t think I had ever seen before. Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers Something of weird terror, too, in the expression upon his sallow, cadaverous face, as the grey dawn dimly lights it up. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco As the pale moonlight fell upon his gaunt and cadaverous visage, he looked like some unholy thing suddenly annihilated by the presiding influence of that sacred spot. Rookwood He was debating this question when the door opened and the Duke walked in, followed by a bald, elderly, pleasant-looking man; after this latter came a cadaverous gentleman, wearing glasses. The Man Who Lost Himself A groan and a gasp was the reply, and the poor creature made such wry faces, and looked altogether so cadaverous, that Jacky was quite alarmed. Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication Mr Hazlit’s limbs were also shaky, and his face cadaverous, showing that his temporary aberration of reason had told upon him. Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters It was a village school, in a remote district of Scotland; the master was a tall, thin, cadaverous and kindly man, of considerable attainments, and with a strong affection for boys. The Thorogood Family That same night, David Boone, gaunt, tall, and cadaverous as of old, sat in his back parlour, talking with his friend Gorman. Fighting the Flames An hour's ride brought me to a wretched hamlet, whose designation I inquired of a cadaverous old woman— "Drainesville," said she. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War It may be remarked in passing, that the mate’s voice had become much more sepulchral and his aspect more cadaverous since his arrival on the island. Sunk at Sea But these failings were not the cause of his cadaverous look—for a faithful representative of the class held them both in commendable abhorrence—they were not the vices of his nature. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States They mounted the platform and, seating Elinor in the chair, filed before her, presenting one after another a grisly hand and cadaverous cheek for her salute. Miss Pat at School In fact, he was a grim man altogether; a gaunt, cadaverous, tall, careworn, middle-aged man—also a great one. Fighting the Flames Under the tent fly emerged a man cadaverous from fever, to gaze at another chimera, of tatters and gaunt pallor, in which he found at last a resemblance to the woman he had loved. Sacrifice Olivia had a good view of the lean, cadaverous face and peaked white beard; the heavy grey eyebrows seemed to beetle over the dark sunken eyes. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient He drew up with such an inhuman gleam in his cadaverous eyes that the customs man drew back. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette Post mortem appearances.—In acute cases, the cadaverous lesions chiefly consist in abundant false membranes in the trachea, or windpipe, and closure of the bronchial tubes by plastic lymph. Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure The place was soon cleared, and Bell dug out a third body, that of a man of forty, who had not the cadaverous look of the others. The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras They looked as if they could not march another mile, these moving skeletons, so painfully they crawled along, so haggard, so emaciated, with a colour so cadaverous and eyes so dull. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 In the southwest corner of the room stood a low and narrow cot, beneath whose thin serape covering a tall, gaunt cadaverous frame was plainly outlined. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier His face was long and cadaverous, the cheek bones were high, and the cheeks below were much sunken in; the lips, which were clean-shaven, were slightly drawn apart, and some broken irregular teeth were visible. A Master of Mysteries His face was grey and cadaverous, with deep lines drawn by suffering, and his feet were so frozen that for some time he could not stand. In the Forbidden Land The face, so far as it could be seen, was cadaverous and cruel, but half of it was concealed by a black vizor of velvet, through which lamped a pair of dark, unwinking eyes. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile The face of the manager and proprietor of Blewcome's Royal Menagerie was sallow and cadaverous. Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge He looked cadaverous, was wild-eyed, and in a crazed condition, caused by starvation and want of water for two days. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 The cadaverous face was half burned and the bloodshot eyes, destitute of eyebrows, could not stand the least ray of light. The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II I dressed, looking like the cadaverous ghost I felt myself to be. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance He was six feet four in height, for one thing, and he was astonishingly cadaverous. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile Three of the cadaverous sophomores he dismissed with a glance. The Brentons “Nothing,” replied the cadaverous man with a sigh. Philosopher Jack The Reverend George was a renegade Highland-man of the cadaverous order. Hunted and Harried Pale, worn-out, cadaverous, threadbare, inexpressibly mean, the man gently raised his dissolute form on one elbow and listened to two men in a box beside him. The Garret and the Garden He was gaunt, cadaverous, and careworn, as if from long and severe suffering, yet, living skeleton though he was, it was obvious that his frame had been huge and powerful. In the Track of the Troops Particularly a brother-in-law—a bilious, cadaverous fellow, whom I saw once, and once was enough. On the Stairs After walking beside his tall companion and eyeing his thin figure and sad countenance in silence for some time, he said— “You’re a cadaverous sort o’ man, Mr Luke.” Philosopher Jack To school I went: my master was a cadaverous, wooden-legged man, a disbanded soldier, and a disciplinarian, as well as an a-b-c-darian. Rattlin the Reefer “Well, stranger, what’s your business?” was the question asked me by the occupant of the room, a tall lank man, with a cadaverous countenance. Mark Seaworth At that moment the moon came out as if expressly for the purpose of throwing light on the dusty, blood-stained, and cadaverous visage of the Turk. In the Track of the Troops He hauled and hauled away; his rake had caught in the hyacinthine locks of Count Funnibos, whose countenance of a cadaverous hue now came in sight. Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin “Neither, that I am aware of,” replied Mr Luke, with a good-natured smile; “my father before me was cadaverous.” Philosopher Jack The colonel’s appearance on deck, supported by his man Mitchell, whose usual cadaverous countenance looked still more ghastly, drove away the romance in which she was beginning to indulge. The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea The general, a tall, cadaverous personage, with long moustaches sticking out on either side of his face, tried to look very fierce and important, but ill succeeded in concealing his trepidation and annoyance. The Three Lieutenants Poor Edgar made no reply, for he was perfectly insensible and cadaverous of hue. Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel Whether it was the case, or that Jack Penny was only taking his tint from the greeny reflected light in the cavern, certainly he looked very cadaverous and strange. Bunyip Land A Story of Adventure in New Guinea She lands a small parcel of letters and papers, a few bales of merchandise, half a dozen slightly-formed cadaverous men; and then, putting about, a gun is fired, and she is off again. The Rifle Rangers He was a tall, lean, somewhat cadaverous—looking man, with steel-like eyes shaded by haughty eyelids, perpetually adroop as though no object on earth were worthy of his regard. Flaming June I tell you he is a tall, cadaverous fellow, with a stoop in his back and a white beard.” Sisters Three He was tall, lean, and cadaverous, with long, straight, colourless hair reaching almost to his shoulders, and a scanty goatee beard adorning his otherwise clean-shaven face. A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story One of my most successful interviews in New York was with a Mrs Parks of Philadelphia—a very pleasant, good-looking, healthy woman, quite unlike the usual cadaverous medium with whom one is more familiar. Seen and Unseen Their progress was temporarily interrupted by the sudden bolt of Fisher minor in pursuit of a lank, cadaverous figure, wearing the Modern colours, who was strolling innocently off in the direction of Mr Forder’s house. The Cock-House at Fellsgarth There was something not very nice in the tone of the cadaverous man of war which roused the ire of the virtuous Whipcord. My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life For as he turned his head, I saw beneath the cowl the well-known, cadaverous, hungry visage of my masquerading ’prentice, and knew that I was right after all. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess Wrangham tried hard to look unconcerned, but as the eyes of the Club turned round in his direction, the tell-tale roses came on his cadaverous cheeks and mounted to his forehead. Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton Her face was very cadaverous, and she spoke in a quick, hurried way, as if time were an object. Seen and Unseen For just ahead of him, turning the corner of Fowler’s Wall, was the cadaverous individual who owed him half a crown. The Cock-House at Fellsgarth This lad was lean and sallow, and of a cadaverous complexion; and, except in his favourite pursuit, in which he was wonderfully adroit, discovered no manner of understanding. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Captain Williams was a tall, cadaverous backwoodsman, who had lost his health in the war. Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 "I could not pay another kopeck," cried one cadaverous looking wretch. Rabbi and Priest A Story It was no wonder if their hue became cadaverous, their eyes hollow and bloodshot, their brows stern, their glance preoccupied and sinister. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre "Can't say I have," grunted the previous speaker, a tall cadaverous man, wrapped from head to foot in a great grey ulster, and wearing woollen gloves. The Shrieking Pit A cadaverous wretched creature, yet doubtless with strength enough in his forefinger to make the seven-pound pull of a rifle. On the Heels of De Wet His long black hair fell in neglected curls on his shoulders, and formed a dark frame round the pale, cadaverous face, on which sorrow, genius and hell had engraved their lines. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians He was of middle size, with long hair, and an inoffensive, cadaverous countenance. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis This last sentence came from a thin, cadaverous looking fellow whose face was only half revealed through the meshes of the head net. The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier It gave a drawn cadaverous look to the lower part of the face. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) This was an aged Spanish Jew, unclean and cadaverous, with patriarchal grey beard and piercing eyes, a man renowned for his marvellous cures among the peasantry. The Hippodrome But his face, that appeared still more cadaverously pale in the glare of the orchestra lights, had about it something so imploring, so simply humble, that a sorrowful compassion repressed one's desire to smile. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians Abundantly occupied in testing the tricks he knew, and teaching him new ones, I had the less leisure to listen open-mouthed to cadaverous gossip of the Cadman class. A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son Smith loved aldermanic cheer, but was pale and cadaverous in complexion; whilst Phillips, who never ate animal food, was rosy and healthful in appearance. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Her refugees had been very precious to her; she was always trying to raise money for some cadaverous Pole, to obtain lessons for some shirtless Italian. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) By the Ensign now," continued the man, who was young, but of a cadaverous countenance, "if 'tis a Maryland huzzy, she is marvellous. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times The girl's godmother, Madame Lacombe, was a tall, gaunt woman of fifty years, with a cadaverous complexion and harsh, disagreeable features. A Cardinal Sin When he appeared, pale, cadaverous, his clothes in tatters, upon what is now the Piazza Nuova, where hundreds of children play all day long, he was greeted with a great shout, "Pazzo, Pazzo!" Life of St. Francis of Assisi As his eyes adjusted, he made out a small brazier there, with a cadaverous old man in a dark robe spotted with looped crosses. The Sky Is Falling The face cadaverous, with sunken eyes and a leering smile, and close cropped red hair. The Ghost of Jerry Bundler He rapidly passed through the stages of cramp and collapse, a nearly perished pulse, and the cadaverous look of one already dead, yet his intellect by the law of the disease, lived unimpaired. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times All white-feathered fowl, in spite of yellow legs, look cadaverous when picked. The Hills of Hingham I never liked the way you made your money," a dark-faced, cadaverous man said, "but when you talk, it makes sense. Hunter Patrol The child, like its mother, for such she was readily imagined to be, was meagre and cadaverous. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 In a last lightning glance towards the audience she noticed among the crowd near the tea-stall the tall thin figure, cadaverous face, and long lank hair of Dr. Linton. A Popular Schoolgirl His complexion became livid, his face more cadaverous than it naturally was. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 They were men and women of varying appearance: tall and short, slender and rotund, and cadaverous and fleshy. The Universe — or Nothing The cadaverous man in the blue jacket turned to the man in the black garment of similar cut. Hunter Patrol And tears, no longer to be restrained, trickled down the worn, cadaverous face of Mrs. Krauss. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma Their cadaverous faces, beards of a week's growth and drawn features showed even in their sleep how exhausted they were. In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry His countenance was, as usual, cadaverously wan—but, moreover, there was a species of mad hilarity in his eyes—an evidently restrained hysteria in his whole demeanour. The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural The yodling was much praised, especially that of a good-looking young woman and her escort, a very tall man of cadaverous aspect, his shanks like the wooden stilts of the shepherds on the Bordeaux Landes. Visionaries "Capitalistic dictatorships, he means," the cadaverous man in the blue jacket explained. Hunter Patrol The dingy, dismal gentleman, swinging the red trunk in his hand, swaggered lazily back and forward, to stretch his legs over the pavement, and air his large cadaverous countenance, and sniff the village breezes. The House by the Church-Yard His cadaverous countenance, never breaking into a smile, was the oddest mask he had ever seen a human being wear. The Courage of Marge O'Doone But her skepticism barely covered her real chagrin because her nephew was a cadaverous nonentity, with little to recommend him to a title hunter. The Title Market Now bring forth your tractates musty, Dry, cadaverous, and dusty, One, on the sound of mammoths' bones In motion; one, on Druid-stones: Show designs for pipes most ghastly, And devils and ogres grinning nastily! The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art I did remember very vividly that cadaverous Nova Scotian mate of the Thames, who had warned me with truculent menaces against showing my face in Rio Medio. Romance Fixed with a strange horror, and almost expecting to see it undergo some frightful metamorphosis, Mervyn stood gazing on the cadaverous intruder. The House by the Church-Yard Mr. Elright's ravagement of the larder had resulted in a triangle of cadaverous apple pie, three doughnuts, some chunks of soft white cheese, and a plate of what are known as oyster crackers. David Harum A Story of American Life Yes, there was one,—one I discovered in the tears that sprung from his unrelenting eyes and rained on his cadaverous cheeks. Trifles for the Christmas Holidays Teen was prevented answering for a moment by a fit of coughing—a dry, hacking cough, which racked her weary frame, and brought a dark, slow colour into her cadaverous cheek. The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow Then Marie began to explain, telling all about the candles and the cadaverous face. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 Those that have cherished a spirit of revenge, and have thereby contracted a savage and cruel nature, love cadaverous substances, and are in hells of that nature; and so on. Heaven and its Wonders and Hell He was a lank, rather cadaverous man, with a face like granite and eyes like polished steel. Nobody's Man I despise their pale faces and cadaverous expression. Trifles for the Christmas Holidays Little wonder the face of Teen was as cadaverous as the grave. The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow A lean, cadaverous boy from along the mountain, a born enemy of the lads of the village, had dared me. The Soldier of the Valley Mr Crips despised whiskers, but, as shaving was an extravagant indulgence, his slightly cadaverous countenance was often littered with a crisp, pale stubble, not unlike dry grass. The Missing Link He was nearly five years older than I; his name was Weston; he had a thin cadaverous face, a very large nose, and a very melancholy expression. A Great Emergency and Other Tales When shall I forget the anguish on that cadaverous face, when the terror of the narration? Trifles for the Christmas Holidays He remembered a thin, cadaverous man, in a long and gloomy black coat, but that was all. Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster As we pitched to and fro, the cadaverous boy and I, Tim's shrill cry came to me, and time and again I caught sight of his white face and small clinched hands waving wildly. The Soldier of the Valley Cyril, a cadaverous youth, stares gloomily into the depths of the marmalade. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920 Because there are such things in the hells, these abound in foul smells, cadaverous, stercoraceous, urinous, and putrid, wherein the diabolical spirits there take delight, as animals do in rank stenches. Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom My father looked cadaverous, Dall was portentously silent, I shut my eyes and tried to sleep, being in that state when to see, or hear, or speak, or be spoken to, is equally fatal. Records of a Girlhood The travellers' faces in particular, gleamed with that peculiar livid and cadaverous tinge, blue and yellow, which magicians so readily produce by burning table salt in alcohol. All Around the Moon After soup had been introduced, Indian meal stirabout proved efficacious, and it was distributed from large iron boilers set up by the roadside to the gaunt, cadaverous wretches who scuffled for the sustenance. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent It is a certain green tinge which always makes its appearance on the abdomen, even before the cadaverous smell, and is a positive evidence that decomposition has begun. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422 Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852 The thief-taker's throat was bound up with thick folds of linen, and his face had a ghastly and cadaverous look, which communicated an undefinable and horrible expression to his glances. Jack Sheppard A Romance This man's attenuated form, his bony hands and cadaverous cheeks—eyes staring with hunger, told a tale too common, alas, of fearful suffering; but no marble was colder than the agent. Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamentable Fate of the Victim of His Passion, and the Shadow's Punishment He then laid himself down once more, and having wiped the perspiration from his forehead, which was now cadaverous, he bade them good night, and again endeavored to compose himself to rest. The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three It presented the cadaverous aspect of the grave, lit up into the repulsive and unnatural animation that resulted from intoxication, and the feeble expiring leer of a worse passion. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two His face was cadaverous, with large goggling eyes, high cheek bones, hair long and ragged, reminding me of a rat's nest, thin lips, and ears large almost as an elephant's. Japhet, in Search of a Father In spite of the gravity of the situation, the expression on their superior's cadaverous face just then—its droll mixture of apprehension and perplexity was more than Yorke and Redmond could stand. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police It was the fashion then is the romantic school to be pale, livid, greenish, a trifle cadaverous, if possible. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century His cheeks were almost cadaverous, his eyes hollow. The Lighted Way However wavering their place may seem by reason of the currents, they themselves, at least to one upon the shore, appear invariably the same: fixed, cast, glued into the very body of cadaverous death. The Piazza Tales The gleaming eyes, matted hair and beard hanging about their cadaverous faces, gave to these men a wild, ghastly look utterly indescribable. Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War The silent, wistful appeal she read in the latter's grim, cadaverous face decided her. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police There was Mr Bourne—in the Canals—large-boned and cadaverous, with a sardonic gleam in his eye. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India He was, I suppose, the most ill-favored mortal, however, in the whole northern half of America—thin, angular, cadaverous of visage and solemn out of all reason. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales His cheeks were hollow and would have been cadaverous but for their hue, a sanguine brown, well tanned by out-of-door living. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Can that cadaverous object, with the white hair, that seems newly-arisen from the grave, be she? The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest A cadaverous hue stole over the dark features of the culprit; their aspect varying and distorted, in which fear and deadly anger painfully strove for pre-eminence. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Susan is lean, cadaverous and intellectual, with the proportions of a file and the voice of a hurdy-gurdy. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years He was a courtly gentleman, cadaverous and shabby as he stood, all the breeding of past generations appearing in him. Lazarre When the three men left the train there, Mr. Birnes walked over and spoke to the agent, a thin, cadaverous, tobacco-chewing specimen of his species. The Diamond Master His countenance was cadaverous, his lips livid, and his eyes black and deep sunken in their sockets, with a bistre-coloured circle around them. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest This night my dear father's face troubled me—sometimes white and sharp as ivory, sometimes strangely transparent like glass, sometimes all hanging in cadaverous folds, always with the same unnatural expression of diabolical fury. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Hallock was big-boned and cadaverous of face, but otherwise a fair physical match for the master-mechanic; a dark man with gloomy eyes and a permanent frown. The Taming of Red Butte Western His face wore a singular cadaverous looking aspect. Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood There was a moment's inspection of the cadaverous face, and then the sleuths shook their heads. The Daughter of Anderson Crow Jake Cornell, hirsute and cadaverous of aspect, nodded his head with emphasis and deposited a corpulent demijohn on the table. A Daughter of the Snows King saw that he was old; grey-haired and cadaverous, with sharp, hawk-like features. Truxton King A Story of Graustark There was no reasoning against the resolution pictured on his rigid and cadaverous countenance. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance The change in him was extraordinary; there was a cadaverous exhaustion about his face, and his eyes were sunken in their sockets. The Magician Stupid little Short possesses a tall rare Venus, and cadaverous Long a bewitching Hebe. The Touchstone of Fortune The body was laid out on a mat, oiled with scented oil, and, to modify the cadaverous look, they tinged the oil for the face with a little turmeric. Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before The eyes were set in a cadaverous, but handsome, face; and the face belonged to the stranger, who had recovered of his swoon, and was now stretched on the settle beside the fire. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales It should have little or no odor, and the odor should not be disagreeable, for diseased meat has a sickly cadaverous smell, and sometimes a smell of physic. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 He sighed, and a darker shadow, not from flickering fire, overspread his cadaverous face. The Mysterious Rider He, too, was cadaverously pale, and so faint with hunger that his hands were trembling like a leaf. The Downfall Could that be Reuben--that cadaverous, death-like creature, with the livid look of a plague patient, lying like one in a trance which can only end in the awakening of death? The Sign of the Red Cross The man's splendid carriage and iron-grey head were not to be mistaken—also his cadaverous and sickly look, and his shabby clothes. Harvest Such carrots! small, cadaverous, brick-coloured things, no bigger than a cork, as dry, as masticable, and, still like a cork, with little save a smell to commend their indulgence. The Siege of Kimberley In those beams, so sinister, all present looked cadaverous: Abrazza's cheek alone beamed bright, but hectic. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II But the pervading hue of the water cast a cadaverous gleam upon the boat, so that we looked to each other like ghosts. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Beside him stood a thin, slightly-bearded man, cadaverous in colour, who, with his hands in his pockets, was holding forth in a nonchalant, rather patronising voice. Lady Connie A flush appeared on his young but slightly cadaverous face. Harvest There was so much in his appearance, in that cadaverous, unchanging countenance, in the peculiar low, drawling voice, and rather tremulous accents in which he spoke. The Bed-Book of Happiness The flesh tones are rather cold, a cadaverous white, but it is a Rembrandt white. Promenades of an Impressionist His lean, cadaverous face took on a look of satisfied cunning. Out of the Ashes Among the crowd they had noticed a tall man, very thin, with a lean, cadaverous face, and long, lanky, rusty black hair. The American Baron This horse was of a livid, cadaverous hue, denoting an agent of ghastly, terrible nature. The Revelation Explained He had no idea that a man already so cadaverous could still change as the old man had changed. Don Orsino No vital current animates their airless, gorgeous, and sometimes cadaverous surfaces. Promenades of an Impressionist Associated words: palatine, palatial. palaver, n. cajolery, flummery; conference, debate, talk. pale, a. pallid, wan, colorless, ghastly, blanched, cadaverous, etiolate, ashy; dim, faint, indistinct, obscure. Putnam's Word Book Williams glanced from one to the other and he became even more cadaverous. The Firm of Girdlestone The yellowish skin on such occasions generally assumes a cadaverous whitish green colour which is pitiful to behold. Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm As yet, however, none was visible; his cadaverous face was as pale and quiet as ever, and his sunken eyes had their usual expression. Don Orsino The cadaverous ghost of the uncle is shown on the screen several times. The Art of the Moving Picture Yellow, dirty, cadaverous, red-eyed, he smells rancid, and was, perhaps, nurtured on paraffin. Light Here are few if any pale faces, sallow complexions, cadaverous cheeks. By the Golden Gate When his father committed suicide, Sang Huin's cadaverous numbness was on fire and he felt that any trace of himself was being incinerated. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America It is his cadaverous face that frightens her. Don Orsino It is the first hint of the Poe hieroglyphic we have had except the black patch over the eye of the uncle, along with his jaundiced, cadaverous face. The Art of the Moving Picture For a second the anguish and the effort stopped my heart and in a nightmare I saw the cadaverous littleness of my grave closing over me. Light His countenance was, as usual, cadaverously wan—but, moreover, there was a species of mad hilarity in his eyes—and evidently restrained hysteria in his whole demeanor. Short-Stories But suddenly a cadaverous creature sprang upon her with a savage yelp and would have caught her by the throat had not a heavy stick cracked its skull. The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California His tall thin body stoops ominously and his cadaverous face is more grave and ascetic than ever. Don Orsino It could not be of aesthetic approval, like the look Percy Saville devoted to herself, for her husband was a cadaverous little man with prominent ears and teeth. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People His hair and skin were of a dull white colour, cadaverous and unsightly, and considered as the effect of disease. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa Yet even now a dark and cadaverous young man was raising the top of the piano, slowly and laboriously, as though it were too heavy for him. The Shadow of the Rope A bearded face, cadaverously sunken, in which gleamed bright fevered eyes, was now discernible. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts He had got used to his own cadaverous tint, so that seemed insufficient. A Perilous Secret His face was long, lank, and cadaverous; his eyes shone with a clear, amber, and steady light, and had an abstracted expression usually, accompanied with a not unfrequent and most peculiar warp of the pupils. Miriam Monfort A Novel The more Haw-Haw Langley drank the more cadaverous grew his face, until in the end it was almost as solemn as that of Pale Annie himself; as for Mac Strann, he seldom drank at all. The Night Horseman You will be in a constant shiver of cold, and your appearance will be cadaverous. The Inferno His countenance is cadaverous, and its ghastly hue adds to its grimness of expression. The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 An Historical Romance The hue of his skin became cadaverous; his eyes grew dim and glassy; and his respiration was difficult. The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance She lay nine hours with her hands and feet outstretched, and cold: all this time she had a cadaverous countenance, and her respiration could scarcely be perceived. The Botanist's Companion, Volume II Over the cheek bones the skin was drawn so tightly that it shone, and the cheeks fell away into cadaverous hollows. The Night Horseman Three cadaverous children were there eating bread and butter from a black tray on the center-table. The Morgesons In our play, at the taking of the Bastile we must have a starving crowd—hungry, eager, cadaverous faces. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections He was a tall, raw-boned, cadaverous looking way-side renegade who looked as if the blood had all been pumped out of his veins, and he claimed to be sick. Death Valley in '49 "There is Miss Tickle," he said, in a voice that was almost cadaverous. Mr. Scarborough's Family And her cheeks—who would guess Cheeks cadaverous as this Once with colours were gay As the flower on its spray? Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. Neither is he a technical philosopher, a dreary, hurrying man, travel-stained by faring through the ultimate, spectacled, cadaverous, uncertain of movement, inarticulate of speech. The Silent Isle The inhabitants of that part of New York nearest the shipping, are extremely sallow and unhealthy looking, and many have a most cadaverous aspect. A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America It is not until the thirteenth or fourteenth century that we find this embodiment clearly defined and generally recognized; and even then the figure used was not a skeleton, but a cadaverous and emaciated body. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 I forget, however, that others are not constituted like me, and that Kromitzki, in spite of his cadaverous face, passes among women as a good-looking man. Without Dogma You perceive him, a lank, cadaverous, good-looking man with long black hair and a semi-clerical costume of quite painful rustiness. Love and Mr. Lewisham A yellow sallow-faced, cadaverous, and dissatisfied looking "gentleman" went into the house eyeing me suspiciously as he passed. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 Opposite, in the same posture, sit the women, whose appearance is most cadaverous and sepulchral, dressed in the Quaker costume. A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America He was thin and cadaverous, and spoke in a meek and melancholy voice, studied and slow. The Nine-Tenths And how could the cadaverous and putrid materials be collected, and reunited to the souls? The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love I made a movement towards it, but with a cadaverous, wild glare at me, it sprang through the broken window and disappeared. Bullets & Billets His cheekbones were high, and the cadaverous skin was so tightly drawn across them, as to give it a very parchment-like appearance. The Garies and Their Friends He was clothed in a suit of rusty black, which made his skeleton limbs look yet more lean and cadaverous. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire Pride, contempt, defiance, stubbornness, submission, lamentation, succeeded one another; so did varieties of sunken cheek, cadaverous colour, emaciated hands and figures. A Tale of Two Cities I hate a man to be red and white, like a painted doll, or all sickly white, or smoky black, or cadaverous yellow.’ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall His complexion was of a cadaverous hue, and he had a grizzly jagged beard of some three weeks' date. Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty Mr. Nicodemus Dumps, or, as his acquaintance called him, ‘long Dumps,’ was a bachelor, six feet high, and fifty years old: cross, cadaverous, odd, and ill-natured. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people He was clothed in an elastic dress painted of a leaden and cadaverous colour, which fitted closely to his fleshless figure, and defined all his angularities. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire He has a cadaverous countenance, full of cavities and projections; with a brown circle round each eye, like a pair of horned spectacles. Little Britain In lethargy and catalepsy the perspiration very often has a cadaverous odor, which has probably occasionally led to a mistaken diagnosis of death. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine He talked to me of aeronautics as I stood in jersey and shorts beside my machine, fresh from alighting, and his cadaverous face failed to conceal a peculiar desolation that possessed him. Tono Bungay His countenance was cadaverous and was eternally agitated by something between a grin and a simper. Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery Almost all seemed in a hopeless state, and the cadaverous hue of their countenances proclaimed that death was not far off. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire Why is that lean doctor so slow,—cadaverous man with hollow jaw and sunken eye, ill beseeming the richness of his mother church! The Warden He was a tall, gaunt, cadaverous man, in an old greatcoat and slippers, with sunken cheeks, and a restless, eager eye. The Pickwick Papers He was an Oxford man, clean-shaven, with a cadaverous complexion and a guardedly respectful manner, a cultivated intonation, and a general air of accommodation to the new order of things. Tono Bungay Perhaps some one had kissed the brow that was now so cadaverous, rubbed that sunken cheek with loving fingers, held that stringy neck with passionately living hands. Ann Veronica, a modern love story His plump person was greatly reduced in bulk, and his round cheeks had become hollow and cadaverous. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire I still seem to see him sitting like a hideous nightmare at the end of my couch, with the single rude lamp flickering over his cadaverous features. The Captain of the Polestar Horror gripped and tore at every member of the cadaverous old body, as a high wind tugs at a flag. The Certain Hour Swift came the Big Cold, and opal and gold the lights of the witches arose; The frost-tyrant clinched, and the valley was cinched by the stark and cadaverous snows. Ballads of a Cheechako With a gasp I saw revealed to my stare a pair of feet, the long legs, a broad livid back immersed right up to the neck in a greenish cadaverous glow. The Secret Sharer Felix had observed on the day before his characteristic pallor; and now he perceived that there was something almost cadaverous in his uncle's high-featured white face. The Europeans A cadaverous little boy had appeared in their aisle, chanting, "Candies, French mixed candies, popcorn, peanuts and candy." McTeague He was a lean, somewhat cadaverous man of about her own age, whose profile was turned to them, and he was the partner of a highly-coloured girl, obviously English by birth. The Voyage Out It had seemed almost as bony and cadaverous on the day of the picnic. The Damnation of Theron Ware By degrees the freshest among them began to grow cadaverous and saucer-eyed. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Old Tamar holding her candle to lighten his path, as she stood, white and cadaverous, in the porch. Wylder's Hand A cadaverous and infected literature which had no form but that of ugliness, began to sprinkle with fetid blood all the monsters of nature. The Confession of a Child of the Century He does look such a wretched, cadaverous thing, with that black beard and those melancholy black eyes, and emaciated face. The Price of Things But to my horror he emerged from the train, on the Wednesday evening, a cadaverous caricature of the splendid person I had gone to meet. Mr. Justice Raffles Turning, I saw that the cadaverous man had shut this door too. The Four Faces A Mystery For a second I was unable, I think, to lift my eyes from the water which presented this cadaverous image. Wylder's Hand He led the way to a room where a cadaverous man, richly dressed, sat huddled over a fire. The Highwayman Then we get cadaverous William and Mary ones, they might be lawyers or business men, not that look of great gentlemen, and the Anne's and the first George's are really bucolic! The Price of Things She was only irritably conscious of the uncouthness of his large cadaverous face, and straggling fair hair; of his ragged ulster, his loosened tie, and all the other untidy details of his dress. Delia Blanchflower "My friend," he said, presenting me to a cadaverous man of middle age, with a thin, prominent, rather hooked nose, high cheek-bones, and curious eyes of a steely grey, which bushy eye-brows partly concealed. The Four Faces A Mystery There were scandalous stories of wicked old Tiberius—bankrupt, dead, and buried—compromising the fame of Tamar—not always a spectacled and cadaverous student of Holy Writ. Wylder's Hand There was a silence in which Caradoc stood tall and cadaverous as a ghost. The Cruise of the Dry Dock As we advanced towards it the light changed suddenly to red, and that again to green, throwing a ghastly pallor over our faces, and especially heightening the cadaverous effect of Saxon's austere features. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 A lean, cadaverous, painfully thin old man in answer to his name rose to his feet and edged his way through the crowd to the witness-chair. The Under Dog Advancing to a corner of it, after carefully locking the door, the cadaverous man, standing on tiptoe, pressed what appeared to be a book in the topmost shelf. The Four Faces A Mystery He'll come here some night and see you,' said Uncle Lorne, looking with a cadaverous apathy on Lake, who was gazing at him in return, with a sinister smile. Wylder's Hand One was a long cadaverous figure that suggested to Madden, Cleghorne, the Yankee commander of the Minnie B. When his eyes strayed across the table to Cleghorne's partner, Leonard's knees almost crumpled in surprise. The Cruise of the Dry Dock He was a very superior young man of the clerk or foreman type, somewhat ill put together at the waist, with a flat back to his head, and a cadaverous countenance. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I On one of these days I found a thin, cadaverous, long-legged, long-armed young man behind the bar. The Under Dog "Some day we shall," the cadaverous man answered in a strange voice. The Four Faces A Mystery At intervals also they passed more men, gaunt, incredibly cadaverous, considering that only the day before they had been strong and well. The Leopard Woman |
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