Indeed, they plausibly suggest it may kill the bid stone-dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [If England do 'lose' the 2018 World Cup, it may be in a noble cause] Reference

It was the man whom he had killed stone-dead with his own hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Baron] Reference

Then he dropped down stone-dead, and Mr. Murchison read the funeral service. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

He ruthlessly killed the thought stone-dead and levelled his gaze at her critically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consultant Care]

Agree with the others above that info-dumping kills any story stone-dead, especially if it comes at the start.    From Wordnik.com.  [World Building: Geography] Reference

His went hurtling after, straight at the back of the tossing head, and the great deer fell in a heap, stone-dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages] Reference

He gave a last bad-tempered grunt, fell from his saddle, and lay stone-dead beside Lieutenant Colonel Ford's horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Waterloo]

None of them had seen him quite like this; his stone-dead black eyes gave back nothing of what was going on inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Dog]

Surely such debate would only strengthen the acceptance of evolution amongst the populace and kill ID stone-dead, no?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Court proceedings, injunctions, they could snarl up any programming schedule; sometimes they killed a project stone-dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

Five fell at once; the other two staggered on a few paces and then fell also, all seven being afterwards found stone-dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference

He was stone-dead when I turned him over; and judging by the terrible emaciation of his body he had died of protracted starvation.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference

His voice died away in a whisper, his faint respirations became slower and slower, and at 12:15 he was to all appearances stone-dead.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Moon Woman" by Minna Irving, part 1] Reference

And my heart, which has been stone-dead for the past few years, sputtered, caught, and jumped into life for at least a couple of seconds.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Wind Blows]

In fact the place was stone-dead, it not being a Games year; but youth is easily pleased, and I set out with Demochares to see the sights.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mask of Apollo]

Storri was lying upon the lounge, dead -- stone-dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The President A novel] Reference

He fell without a groan -- dead, stone-dead at my feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf] Reference

There it lies, stone-dead for all a man's eyes can see!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man] Reference

He dropped stone-dead, and I reached the timber in safety.    From Wordnik.com.  [How a one-legged rebel lives : reminiscences of the Civil War,] Reference

And she fell from the chair, to all appearances stone-dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Year of Jubilee] Reference

You would not think the fall could have hurt him, but he is stone-dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love of Brothers] Reference

The feet are stone-dead already: if they be not stirred, they cannot stir.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God.] Reference

You all know the rest; he was shot stone-dead bekaise he loved that mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] Reference

He leaped at least five feet, and fell to the ground collapsed and stone-dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The end of an era,] Reference

His forehead rested on the table, his arms hung at his sides; he was stone-dead!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villa Rubein, and other stories] Reference

Too late a bit we were, but we found him, just stone-dead like, and brought him round.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somehow Good] Reference

Right in the midst of the nave the bridegroom lay stone-dead, pierced by two black arrows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Arrow] Reference

The man's eyes rolled, and he fell, like one stone-dead, his dirk sticking in the sidewalk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times] Reference

Mrs. Comstock, going to bed at night in perfect health, was found in the morning stone-dead!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces] Reference

There is something almost heroic in the idea of firing off guns for a man who has been stone-dead for about four centuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference