corpse-like

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Equivalents

Examples

“Every one capable of thinking felt the advantage of the idea, and in a moment (it was all done in rapid moments) Captain Benwick had resigned the poor corpse-like figure⟳ entirely to the brother’s care, and was off for the town with the utmost rapidity.”

“Magneezhy was in an awful case; if he had been already shot, he could not have⟳ looked more clay and corpse-like; […]”

“[…] a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure⟳ stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form⟳.”

“A pseudopod of blackness elongated itself from the central mass and like⟳ a great tentacle clutched the corpse-like being, dragged it back to the pit and over the brink.”

“His body was dead white where it was not cruelly galled, bitten, rasped; his colourless face⟳ puffy, sweat-swollen, corpse-like, a tangled yellow beard covering his mouth; his eyes were red and pustulent.”

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