cadaverousness
Example Sentences
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The old heroic stamina of our ancestors, that craved the bitter but nourishing home-brewed, has died out, and in its place there is a sickly cadaverousness that must be pampered and cosseted.
From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by John Burroughs
His whiskers had grown and had given additional cadaverousness to his face as it appeared to me.
From The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne
But no sooner is there a gastric revolt at the diabolical inventions of some high-priestess of the kitchen, with a growing cadaverousness, than every friend is ready with an ominous warning.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett
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 Jack London
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 Evelyn Everett-Green
