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Example sentences for "dead and"

  • I wonder how it will all work out after I am dead and if I shall ever learn what happens in the end.

  • Kaatje swore that she saw you dead and buried.

  • And even then it would not leave him, but followed him upstairs with a bump on every stair, scrambled into bed with him, and bumped down, dead and heavy, on his breast when he fell asleep.

  • A pause of forgetfulness, and then he had even suffered, and had come back to her, dead and at peace, and yet there was no difference in him.

  • For frequent tears have run The colors from my life, and left so dead And pale a stuff, it were not fitly done To give the same as pillow to thy head.

  • So kill me dead and cover me deep Where never a soul discovers; Deep in your heart to sleep, to sleep, In the darlingest tomb of lovers.

  • It is all well while it burns and scintillates in your emotional centres, without articulate and connected expression; but the minute you plunge it into the rhyme-trough it cools down, and becomes as dead and dull as the cold horse-shoe.

  • He is dead and gone; but the State-House has its cupola fresh-gilded, and the Frog-Pond has got a fountain that squirts up a hundred feet into the air and glorifies that humble sheet with a fine display of provincial rainbows.

  • Old Abram Brown is dead and gone, You'll never see him more; He used to wear a long brown coat, That button'd down before.

  • She could laugh then like that, while she thought me lying dead--dead and out of her reach forever!

  • But the two great armies principally rested in position on that day, and the great battle of the Wilderness, with its alternate successes and repulses and its long lists of dead and wounded, was ended.

  • As the smoke cleared away he saw the ground littered with the dead and dying.

  • The ground was covered with the dead and wounded, some of the latter desperately in need of attention.

  • Then he must be dead and I believe that bell ringing had something to do with it too.

  • The ground was covered with the dead and dying, but no one hesitated.

  • They were as bravely met as before, and a second counter-charge sent them again in disorder across the creek, leaving the ground covered with their dead and wounded.

  • As the rebels neared our main line of battle, they were met by a withering fire from our men, and, after maintaining the contest for a few moments, they broke and fled in confusion, leaving the ground thickly strewed with dead and wounded.

  • The men charged upon the rebels, who fell back before the shock, broke and fled, leaving the broad, green wheat field strewed with their dead and wounded.

  • Crowds of peasants, heaps of dead and dying, choked the approach to Praga, the outlying suburb.

  • Prison-walls have hidden many a dark event; and we only know that the czar was dead and Catharine on the throne.

  • The day passed; night fell; the field of battle was strewn thick with the dead and dying.

  • Then the Guards flung themselves down amidst the flaming houses and the dead and dying, and snatched what slumber they could.

  • Our men pushed forward gallantly, but every inch of ground had to be won at a heavy price of dead and wounded.

  • When night fell, the whole plateau was strewn with dead and dying, and the ghastly scene was illuminated by the glare of flaming villages.

  • I will tell you the truth, Gwendoline; for I want you to be a friend to Isabel Gilbert when I am dead and gone.

  • As if she did not wish to be dead and at rest, regretted and not lectured, deplored rather than slandered and upbraided.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    attend the; automatic pistol; certain persons; cet homme; dark corner; dead and; dead calm; dead flat; dead horses; dead knight; dead lion; dead man; dead matter; dead person; dead reckoning; dead stop; dead trees; dead weight; deadly earnest; deadly fear; deadly poison; haunted woodland; inner light; reverend friend; single combat; thrown from