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Example sentences for "dead man"

  • He fell because he thought he was a dead man.

  • The low sun dazzled him a little, and he counted himself a dead man already.

  • This last, completely unstrung by such a show of agility on the part of a dead man, was trembling yet.

  • Of a dead man, how men would have hewn him, and it would not be, and how Sir Launcelot took the hair of the dead man.

  • IN such manner they kept Launcelot four-and-twenty days and all so many nights, that ever he lay still as a dead man; and at the twenty-fifth day befell him after midday that he opened his eyes.

  • How Sir launcelot had lain four-and-twenty days and as many nights as a dead man, and other divers matters.

  • Not another step,' he said, 'or you are a dead man.

  • Stir but a step,' said they, 'and you are a dead man.

  • Edmond stiffened himself in order to play the part of a dead man, and then the party, lighted by the man with the torch, who went first, ascended the stairs.

  • You took that pocket-book from a dead man, and in that pocket-book was the document.

  • If they could find the man who was in possession of his pocket-book, who was in possession of twenty thousand pounds taken from the dead man's body and with it had saved his business and his credit, how then, do you think?

  • There was nothing else upon the dead man, no means of identification of any sort.

  • Man, take him as he comes into the world, and he is not only a dead man, and a fool, but a proud man also.

  • When God came to man to convert him, He found him a dead man (Eph 2:1,2).

  • My friend advanced and knelt beside the dead man.

  • You would be a dead man now if it were not for your friend in China!

  • Don't be frightened; if he lowers his hands he'll be a dead man before he knows it.

  • The last acts and death of Eliseus the prophet: a dead man is raised to life by the touch of his bones.

  • And as the gates are made sure on every side upon one that hath offended the king, or like a dead man carried to the grave, so do the priests secure the doors with bars and locks, lest they be stripped by thieves.

  • And there came blood as it were of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.

  • Turn our eyes to what point we may, a dead man's white, immitigable face encounters them, and freezes our very heart!

  • Whatever we seek to do, of our own free motion, a dead man's icy hand obstructs us!

  • A dead man sits on all our judgment-seats; and living judges do but search out and repeat his decisions.

  • But I will not be taken alive; and so surely as you threaten me above your breath, I fall a dead man on this floor.

  • The answer is easy," replied Don Quixote; "it is a greater work to bring to life a dead man.

  • Sleep, I have heard say, has only one fault, that it is like death; for between a sleeping man and a dead man there is very little difference.

  • I am a dead man: I have slain the Duke's leopard.

  • And when the coffin was to be closed, he cleared the cell: and put the tress upon the dead man's bosom.

  • And he shall tell me why he looked towards me like a dead man wakened; and not a soul behind me.

  • I shall pick him out; but if it comes to hand fighting, run swiftly under his guard, or you are a dead man.

  • Mr. Monkton did not immediately fall, but staggered forward some six or seven paces, discharged his pistol ineffectually at the count, and dropped to the ground a dead man.

  • The idea of a dueling-party and a dead man seemed to scare him out of his senses.

  • The dead man, the dead man, the hidden dead man on the bed!

  • Cloete was like a dead man--didn't care for anything.

  • Whatever its meaning it was not for that man he had picked up casually on obscure impulse, to get rid of the tiresome expostulations of a so-called friend; a man of whom he really knew nothing--and now a dead man.

  • That's better, says Cloete; dash me if it wasn't like walking about with a dead man before.

  • Tis song as was made for dead men, of dead men, by a dead man, and there's for ye now!

  • I could have sworn that I saw thee fall, skull and helmet cleft, a dead man!

  • I trow the Prince was wrath with the cowardly clown for striking a dead man.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dead and; dead animals; dead beat; dead bodies; dead child; dead coral; dead game; dead horses; dead kings; dead lion; dead tree; dead weight; dead whale; deadly earnest; deadly poison; deadly wound; fair proportion; immediately below; law and; marriage between; nor was; political influence; showing himself; single instance; vital power; wish they