She had seen him, Jeff, dead, waxlike and alien, but Jeff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

Pendergast lay on the couch, unmoving, his skin gray, waxlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dance Of Death]

Norowobisee wrote on January 5, 2008 7: 33 AM: about it waxlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Right-Wing Bloggers Launch Campaign -- With MoveOn! -- Against Fox News Over Debate Footage] Reference

Unfurled do still remain in spring the green and waxlike leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

By the end of the journey, the body "looked like a ghastly, pale, waxlike effigy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Goodbye] Reference

Adipocere is a waxlike substance formed by the hydrolysis of fat during decomposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spider Bones] Reference

She fairly trembled with joy as she uncovered the waxlike flowers of dainty pink and white.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference

The skin is too waxlike, the chest too still, the lips too dry, the eyes too sunken behind the closed lids.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hunter]

But when the film was developed, the pictures proved unshowable: his skin wasn't just sallow, it was waxlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Devil] Reference

In a worst-case scenario, the crude itself can solidify into a waxlike sludge and render an entire pipeline unusable.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Urgency to Restart Alaskan Pipeline] Reference

Sometimes the gray blankets came up to the chin, and the man looked dead already, he was so dreadfully still, with his closed eyes and waxlike face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference

After a short interval the insects emerge from the scales and secrete a waxlike substance, covering the boughs and twigs with a white deposit about a quarter of an inch thick.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference

The children were allowed to look at the beautiful waxlike white blossoms, with their glossy green leaves, and then Mother Brown carried them upstairs to immerse them in the bathtub full of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South] Reference

Sure there's room for MORE crazy talk, always is, but in terms of legislative rigor mortis, the GOP's waxlike form has been shimmering in its glass coffin since 2008, and is even included on many D.C. tours now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Circling back to gay rights] Reference

He announced that he would furnish artists with copper plates covered with a waxlike composition on which they could make their own drawings, in a manner similar to but much simpler than the method followed by the etcher on copper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference

As he had observed, the waxlike figures moved, sat upright, and stared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winnie Childs The Shop Girl] Reference

Orestes perished with the light; phosphorus is yellowish and waxlike by day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

As the latter slowly turned his waxlike features toward him the youth screamed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Badge of Courage] Reference

As the latter slowly turned his waxlike features toward him, the youth screamed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Badge of Courage] Reference

Cholesterol is a waxlike substance that is needed for the body's normal metabolism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Activity] Reference

Pushing up through the wet soil, already showed early snowplants, those strange, waxlike towers of crimson.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rules of the Game] Reference

Through it all Charlotte slept her deathlike sleep, with her hands crossed and cold in their waxlike rigidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [My beloved South,] Reference

Far overhead was a square, black shadow in the waxlike crust which they had left; it was the shadow of the cube.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life] Reference

The waxlike finish of the finely chiselled marble alone betrays that delicacy which with Mino verged on insipidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts] Reference

The team is developing a waxlike substance that can be used in refrigerated trucks and in various building materials.    From Wordnik.com.  [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference

Framed photo of his wife a decade dead smiling at the camera, posed, assured in monochrome, loosely held between his waxlike hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Boston weighs smoke-free public housing] Reference

Hiram's shoulders began to stoop and hollows to appear in his cheeks and under his ears, and a waxlike pallor to overspread his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Generation] Reference

He certainly looked ill, and he had grown thinner and whiter within the past month, and the lines in his waxlike face seemed to be deeper scored.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason] Reference

Small business hosting and he adamantly antinomasia of sat munificently, shabbily man that he is, and jaunty tribalism in a steaming waxlike fructidor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

The baby-warmer uses a waxlike substance that changes phases between solid and liquid, releasing heat if the baby gets too cold, and absorbing heat if the baby overheats.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Solid-ink printers, which only Xerox currently sells, use a unique technology that melts waxlike blocks and then squirts the resulting semiliquid ink through tiny holes in a printhead onto paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macworld] Reference

A dozen of the lovely waxlike blooms amongst them, uninjured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

| Reply | Permalink about it waxlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Right-Wing Bloggers Launch Campaign -- With MoveOn! -- Against Fox News Over Debate Footage] Reference

It is of a waxlike stiffness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Months in Mexico] Reference