cadaverousness

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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

He was a man whose figure promised cadaverousness, but who had an excessively red face, though shaped like a horse's.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

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)

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

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