cadaverousness

Example Sentences

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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

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 Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher)

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

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