cadaverousness

Example Sentences

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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

Huge-boned, tall, gaunt to cadaverousness, his face a dirty death’s head, he was as repellent a nightmare of old age as ever Doré imagined. 

From The Red One by London, Jack

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

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