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“The streets were deathly quiet as the horses pulled Lincoln’s car, hearse-like, through the dark streets,” Widmer wrote.
LINCOLN’S FIRST INAUGURATION MET WITH THREATS OF KIDNAPPING, KILLING AND MILITIASMICHAEL RUANEJANUARY 15, 2021WASHINGTON POST
She bent forward, her chin resting upon her breast, and gradually the deathly sickness passed.
DOPESAX ROHMER
Deathly pale, the teacher took a step toward the window, but hastily turned, and dashed from the room.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMAN
Lying there, with hollow cheeks, eyes closed and lips deathly pale, it seemed as if the spirit had already fled.
HUNTED AND HARRIEDR.M. BALLANTYNE
I felt deathly sick, physically sick, fearing she was marked for death, fearing she was reserved for worse than death.
A VIRGINIA SCOUTHUGH PENDEXTER
And she raised her proud head higher, and looked about her and deep down with deathly eyes.
RUDY AND BABETTEHANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
His face had sunk and wore a deathly pallor; the thick, black hair was thin and grey.
THE LIFE OF MAZZINIBOLTON KING
Instantly, as ever, her quick mind grasped the meaning that lay back of the words and her face grew deathly white.
THE SHEPHERD OF THE HILLSHAROLD BELL WRIGHT
At last she raised her head and showed the deathly color of her face.
PAUL PATOFFF. MARION CRAWFORD
Then a silence fell, deathly, like the lifeless silence of a grave.
THE LINKALAN EDWARD NOURSE
APRIL 11, 2021
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