cadaverousness

He was thin to the point of cadaverousness, and spoke in a stilted fashion that struck some as formal and others as pompous—either impression reinforced by Grabarek’s habit of wearing a red carnation in his lapel at all times.

But no sooner is there a gastric revolt at the diabolical inventions of some high-priestess of the kitchen, with a growing cadaverousness, than every friend is ready with an ominous warning.

He turned suddenly; and, as the green curtain fell with a flap, the dip lost its flame, and a black reek vied with that heavy cadaverousness.

Suddenly his cadaverousness struck me afresh.

He was a man whose figure promised cadaverousness, but who had an excessively red face, though shaped like a horse's.