exanimate
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At her side the girl gazed curiously at the exanimate form.
From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
Silence on the bier, While I call God—call God!—so let thy mouth Be heir to those who are now exanimate.
From Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When Laura plays the piano, her adorer stands there, one moment an exanimate statue, the next a disembodied spirit,—while the listening zephyrs murmur more softly in reverence.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
He gazed at an exanimate Louis, made a few inquiries and a few observations of his own, gave some brief instructions, and departed.
From The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett
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
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