Dead Like

And I always thought it was strange how in many instances he was like an experienced soldier at war, invariably edgy but with almost a dead-like calm—ready for anything. ❋ Kimani Kinyua (2006)

"Poisoned arrows snake poison -- very dead-like and quick." ❋ Victor [pseud.] Appleton (N/A)

Montgomerie rushed to the rescue, thrust a dirk through the body of one of the intruders, beat it on the head with an axe, and threw the dead-like cat out before the door, as he had done with its former companion. ❋ James Grant (N/A)

I felt my heart give one jump right up to the root o 'my tongue, an' then fall back ag'in, sick an 'dead-like. ❋ Various (N/A)

` ` Poisoned arrows snake poison -- very dead-like and quick. '' ❋ Unknown (1917)

Ranting and frothing in my insane crisis, or waiting dead-like till my spirit arouses me,1105 ❋ Unknown (1900)

And when she'd got it, she'd _groan_ -- you'd think she couldn't be asleep, and yet she was, dead-like -- for two hours. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

And the night stretched very dark, dead-like and icy, above this revelry, perforated only with lines of gas lamps extending to the four corners of heaven. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

He let the body fall into the large armchair and, taking advantage of the warder's consternation at seeing the dead-like body sitting between him and the only exit, glided through the narrow space between the sliding rails and disappeared. ❋ Alexandre Dumas Fils (1859)

Ranting and frothing in my insane crisis, or waiting dead-like till my spirit arouses me, ❋ Walt Whitman (1855)

Mrs Bradshaw forgot all her vows of estrangement from the dead-like husband, who might never speak to her, or hear her again, and bitterly accused herself for every angry word she had spoken against him during these last few miserable days. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

"As sure as Mahomet was a liar, and the Pope has excommunicated him from Paradise, 'tis the same still, torpid, dead-like sea we ought to have long since passed." ❋ John Roby (1821)

The recollection of the attributes of the German ghoul came over me; nor did the difference between the beings, the motives, and the actions, prevent me from conjuring up the similitude, so unlike a human being did he appear in his complexion, his fixed, dead-like stare into the grave, and the perfect stillness of his body, as he crouched down to be nearer to the object of his search. ❋ John Mackay Wilson (1819)

He remained a quarter of an hour in this dead-like state before he was observed; at length, a gentleman who was passing along that road, on his way to his country-seat in the neighborhood, thought he perceived a man lying amongst the high grass a little onward on the heath. ❋ Jane Porter (1813)

This is the unease which epitomises Mugabe's rule and his dead-like grip on Zimbabwe. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What wonderful thing it was that went on underground so quietly, while you were asleep or at play, neither you nor I can tell; and this dead-like seed coming to life and springing up into beauty is only one of the many things which go on in this world all around us, seen and known only by God, who says of the seed of His word, sown by His servants -- not in the ground, but in the hearts of people -- that it is He who "giveth the increase." ❋ Caroline Pridham (N/A)

And irrational?” his roommate spits at him as if his skin was turning a dull, almost dead-like hue of green. ❋ Youneverwin (2007)

"As lively as a lass at a wedding for an hour maybe, and then dreamy and dead-like for hours at ❋ George W. Gough (N/A)

"But, Father, I'm the seventh son and sure ye must admit 'tis a lonesome country, all this, that looks so like Donegal and Killarney mountains, an 'is so dead-like, wi' no little people to fill up the big gap between the dead an 'the livin', an 'the good an' the bad. ❋ Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1918)

My [MIL] keeps [dead-liking] my posts 2 months after her [funeral] and it's freaking me out. ❋ Sstud (2017)

The [cancellation] of Dead Like Me is, well, [eleven] kinds of [suck]. ❋ SweetDivaNY (2005)

Dead Like Me is [fucking] [great] and [underrated]! ❋ ReaperAyane (2004)

[OMG] Dead Like Me is on, [must] [watch]!!! ❋ Wendy (2004)

[are you] [DEAD LIKE ME] ? ❋ Urban Dictionary (2005)

I love Dead Like Me so much! [I wish] it never [ended]! Dead Like Me [ROCKS]!!!!! ❋ Kendall. B (2007)

Due to unknown reasons, it is apparent that Matt is dead like Goose to Captain [Nielson] and [First Officer] [Whicker]. ❋ Nocturnal Mammal - Man (2019)

"[You ugly], you [your daddy's] [son]" "Well, you smell like dead memes" "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" ❋ Fresh Timbs (2018)

When [Jeremy Lynch]’s Best Friend farts [Jermey] [Lynch] says “ It smells like dead rat mixed with eggs “. ❋ Eejejejeje (2022)

His [friend]: ([farts]) [Jeremy Lynch]: It smells like dead rat mixed with eggs ❋ Eejejejeje (2022)