cadaverousness
Example Sentences
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Huge-boned, tall, gaunt to cadaverousness, his face a dirty death’s head, he was as repellent a nightmare of old age as ever Doré imagined.
From The Red One by London, Jack
He turned suddenly; and, as the green curtain fell with a flap, the dip lost its flame, and a black reek vied with that heavy cadaverousness.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander
Without suggesting cadaverousness, though high-boned and prominent, the cheeks fell away and met in a mouth, thin-lipped and softly strong.
From The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke by London, Jack
He was a man whose figure promised cadaverousness, but who had an excessively red face, though shaped like a horse’s.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles
It was the face of an ascetic--thin featured and thin lipped, pale almost to cadaverousness, but lighted as though with a fire from within.
From For the Faith by Everett-Green, Evelyn
