exanimate

Example Sentences

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All along the wan stretch of Cheyne Walk the thin trees stood exanimate, with not a breath of wind to stir the snow that pied their soot-blackened branches.

From A Christmas Garland by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

Silence on the bier, While I call God—call God!—So let thy mouth Be heir to those who are now exanimate.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

A city agen, But peopled by pale mechanical men, With workhouses filled, and prisons, and marts, And faces that spake exanimate hearts.

From The Irish Penny Journal, No. 1, Vol. 1, July 4, 1840 by Various

The frozen lash was soon severed and the two exanimate bodies lifted in eager hands.

From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

But I, exanimate of quick Poesy,— O then, no more but even a soulless corse!

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis