The hikers looked cadaverous after they were found a week later. From LearnThat.org.
I keep thinking the word cadaverous but I know that’s wrong because I just like saying cadavers. From Wordnik.com. [super-suzan Diary Entry] Reference
Those hells are therefore named accordingly; some are called cadaverous, some stercoraceous, some urinous, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom] Reference
Later, they would fall out over Louisa's desire to wear rouge in order to attenuate the "cadaverous" pallor of her complexion, which offended her husband's puritan sensibilities. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Crimson | All Articles] Reference
Presently the cadaverous face of Maisanguaq appeared. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
It gave a drawn cadaverous look to the lower part of the face. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
"Baptême, it is terrible!" exclaimed the cadaverous humorist. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making] Reference
The rosy light of the candelabrum beamed upon his cadaverous lips. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Their faces had a cadaverous hue, which could not but be remarked. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
Paula's lap, as the same cadaverous animal that was swinging around. From Wordnik.com. [Paula the Waldensian] Reference
Such a lank, cadaverous visage I don't think I had ever seen before. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
"I could not pay another kopeck," cried one cadaverous looking wretch. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
He was six feet four in height, for one thing, and he was astonishingly cadaverous. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
The silent, wistful appeal she read in the latter's grim, cadaverous face decided her. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
A cadaverous horse, knee-sprung and wheezy, dragged the van at the gait of a caterpillar. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
He was a tall, thin, cadaverous-looking man with almost no hair and very deep-sunken eyes. From Wordnik.com. [That Sweet Little Old Lady] Reference
He drew up with such an inhuman gleam in his cadaverous eyes that the customs man drew back. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
He was pale and hollow-eyed, and almost mouldy; altogether a most cadaverous-looking person. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
The face of the manager and proprietor of Blewcome's Royal Menagerie was sallow and cadaverous. From Wordnik.com. [Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge] Reference
Ford says that his St. Francesco in Toledo is "a masterpiece of cadaverous ecstatic sentiment.". From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
Particularly a brother-in-law -- a bilious, cadaverous fellow, whom I saw once, and once was enough. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
They were men and women of varying appearance: tall and short, slender and rotund, and cadaverous and fleshy. From Wordnik.com. [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference
Among the latter, Calhoun, in bristling hair, cadaverous face, and high shirt collar, looked 'the unkindest cut of all.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
To his inquiries for that personage a thin, cadaverous-looking man presented himself, and drawled out a civil salutation. From Wordnik.com. [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference
As his eyes adjusted, he made out a small brazier there, with a cadaverous old man in a dark robe spotted with looped crosses. From Wordnik.com. [The Sky Is Falling] Reference
And the teen vampire movie Twilight is ribbed, as Ker's cadaverous Lothario gets shirty when repeatedly told how tasty garlic is. From Wordnik.com. [Penny Dreadfuls] Reference
The florescent bulbs gave a deathly blue cast to the already cadaverous clerk, who recognized the customer with barely a glance. From Wordnik.com. [A Tragedy In Three Acts (St. Petersburg Blues)] Reference
This last sentence came from a thin, cadaverous looking fellow whose face was only half revealed through the meshes of the head net. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
Like all pale and cadaverous men, or men of consumptive look, there could be scarcely any change in him which would be for the worse. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
Her large, black, cadaverous physiognomy was relieved by dark sunken eyes, and by a pair of mustaches shading the corners of her lips. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
Among the number was a little fellow with a cadaverous face, about as large as two farthings 'worth of butter, who declared, in a long speech with flat rhymes, that an. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
We had long anticipated his cadaverous end. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
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