The death-like stillness was fraught with tension.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference

The manager scowled down at the death-like sleeper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Girls A Home Story] Reference

There sounds: but death-like silence reigns around.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference

Fever, delirium, anything but this death-like trance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmond Dantès] Reference

Johnny was holding with a death-like grip on to the car.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference

A dull and death-like silence prevailed on his entrance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference

Would feebly cry: "My child!" then, death-like, swoon away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rowena & Harold A Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst] Reference

He would paint her as she slumbered in that death-like swoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

Her eyes were closed, and she looked very death-like, as it was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heiress of Wyvern Court] Reference

I can feel the death-like coldness now where that small hand lay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference

Then bugle's note and cannon's roar the death-like silence broke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference

The bugle's note, and cannon's roar, the death-like silence broke.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Songs and Ballads] Reference

Then bugle's note, and cannon's roar, the death-like silence broke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference

The great Priestess Saronia wore on her face a death-like calmness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

No one was in sight, and a death-like silence brooded over the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive] Reference

In one hand she held a knife, to which she clung with a death-like tenacity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cord and Creese] Reference

Many weary hours went by before a squawk penetrated the death-like stillness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference

He asked whether silence would restore the death-like apathy of the Negro's mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference

But for giving one an oppressive sense of death-like misery, there is nothing equal to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference

I thought sure I was dying then and there and fell from the log in a death-like swoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference

There was a moment's hesitation, a moment of death-like stillness in the hall, and then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

There was a woman near me, her mourning veil thrown back, disclosing a death-like face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference

Toward the evening the bombardment began to slacken until a death-like stillness ensued.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference

She wears over her face the horribly grinning, death-like mask of a spectre or a vampire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The famished little children and the death-like look of all at the lake made his heart ache.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten American Girls From History] Reference

The head of Camors, turned on the pillow, seemed already to have assumed a death-like immobility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The restlessness and delirium of the morning had passed and been succeeded by a death-like stupor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sheik] Reference

He noticed her face, and was frightened by its death-like pallor, but he was greatly surprised to see.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference

The cloud brought with it a death-like mist, damp and choking, and the sunshine was abruptly put out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference

The two wept together, encouraged by the death-like stillness in the closet on the other side of the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prudence Says So] Reference

My features, once comely and regular, had assumed the ghastly, horrible and death-like appearance they now wear.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference

A death-like silence generally pervades this cool, dark region, where few kinds of animal life find a congenial abode.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier'] Reference

As we entered, I saw Mary sitting by the bed, holding the hand of the poor white figure that lay, death-like, beneath the sheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [32 Caliber] Reference

A terrible awakening came to Oscar, after that long death-like stillness; weary days of restless insensibility and pain followed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heiress of Wyvern Court] Reference

Hibernene was a drug that had been evolved from the study of animals like the bear, which spent its winters in an almost death-like sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Penal Cluster] Reference