cadaverousness

Example Sentences

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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

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 Burroughs, John

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

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

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)