In an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped away.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

He objected to the deadness of the tennis balls.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

'I should have thought the deadness was a mild word for it, if it had been named to me when we brought you in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference

It might be described as a deadness — or an absence of life; something that no face, upon an upright figure, should be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Posed Photo of Jack London] Reference

Well, the "deadness" of anything anthropomorphizable is up for grabs of course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recipe] Reference

He found that their "deadness" proceeded from a rooted distrust of the Emperor.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Pitt and the Great War] Reference

But he does attempt a rebuttal regarding their understanding of Paul's "deadness" metaphor in Ephesians 2.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Two Worlds] Reference

‘I should have thought the deadness was a mild word for it, if it had been named to me when we brought you in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference

I also realized that my emotions and spirit and soul were muted to the point that I had a kind of deadness inside of me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond Meds] Reference

When he later returned to England, he felt a kind of deadness had crept into some meetings, that made it difficult to speak there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussion Forum - Quaker Quaker] Reference

We see the conditions of our deadness deathropomorphically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earl Pomerantz: The Body Problem] Reference

The road was a barrier of deadness bisecting the forest heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

But there was a deadness in her eyes that belied what she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

I do not ask you to defend the deadness of that thing lying there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Ship] Reference

It's just sitting out behind the house, mocking me with its deadness.    From Wordnik.com.  [idiot-milk Diary Entry] Reference

It is preceded by an interval of absolute deadness in matters artistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

There was no fountain now, and Ravna felt deadness behind Nilsndot's gaze.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

And knew that part of the deadness inside had been grief for His own death.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

Sleep is merely a blessed veiling of the faculties; this was collapse, deadness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montlivet] Reference

This deadness was his body's final answer to a night and a day of unbearable pain and fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference

Her eyes were not fixed and motionless, though there was a certain sort of deadness in them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference

Take an early spring day when the winter's wreck and rust and deadness seem to be everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Green Valley] Reference

I had a feeling of emotional deadness, a feeling my old values didn't matter as much anymore.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 9, 2005] Reference

The Riders knew humans well, but even they weren't sure of the deadness in Øvn Nilsndot's face.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

This is true, since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Stories To Die For: The Art Of The 'Obituaries'] Reference

There were always periods of deadness -- she knew that -- but this held a quality none of them had had.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Bread] Reference

And in art it is the same; all those who have aimed at an absolute perfection have usually ended in a deadness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Practice and Science of Drawing] Reference

"She is as well as I could have hoped," he said, hearing in his own voice the deadness he had heard in Rachel's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

There is this deadness about any conception of perfection that will always make it an unattainable ideal in life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Practice and Science of Drawing] Reference

At Cambridge, he thundered at the deadness of Harvard and its faculty, and electrified the land by striking at its glory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference

Her arms and limbs had a curious sort of deadness about them, a detached sensation, as if they belonged to some one else.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Apartment Next Door] Reference

As the weary hours drag by, it seems as if a deadness, a sort of paralysis, creeps up the limbs, upwards towards the head.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Contemptible", by "Casualty"] Reference

SUE SHELLENBARGER, AUTHOR, "THE BREAKING POINT": It began with a feeling of emotional deadness and almost meaninglessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 9, 2005] Reference

But there is another offence, that of quenching the Spirit, which accounts for the comparative darkness and deadness of many of.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference

Palmer caught her hand; there was a vague deadness in her eye that terrified him; he had not thought the girl suffered so deeply.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference

The proper ventilation of their churches and vestries would remove that spiritual deadness of which their prayers and hymns complain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference

To charge upon Materialists the dogma of matter's deadness is a paltry trick which a writer like Mr. Smith should disdain to practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles] Reference

Nor was this deadness confined to the colonies alone, for the Wesleys were soon to stir the sluggish current of English religious life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut] Reference