Round about a deathlikestillness continued; but the fire hissed, the whirlwind howled, and the snow rolled each moment more densely through the window openings.
The jury returned from considering their verdict; there was a flutter, an excited murmur, a deathlike hush.
Higher and higher in the heavens rose the morning sun, stealing across the window sill, and shining aslant the floor, where Hagar still lay in a deep, deathlike swoon.
Not that he cared for the brandy, of which he seldom tasted; but he needed something to relieve the deathlike faintness which occasionally came over him, and which old Hagar, looking only at his mischievous eyes, failed to observe.
The desert, which had been awakened to beauty by the kiss of the fickle sky, was falling back into its ancient, deathlike sleep.
The boy looked up with haggard, deathlike face, and the wholesome human sympathy of the old man's regard loosened the frightful tension of his soul.
Oswald felt her hand grow cold in his, and saw a deathlike pallor overspread her face.
A deathlike paleness had spread over her cheeks; yet still, despite the want of color, she looked exquisitely beautiful, and her large blue eyes eloquently thanked her deliverer for her rescue.
Reassured, he timidly advanced again, and then for the first time, between the two marble statuettes holding back the curtains of the bed, saw Christine, but looking more white and deathlike than the marble itself.
He at least had the deathlike peace that follows decision.
Once more he approached her, and again she shrank away from him, dragging herself along against the wall, and with her eyes still fixed in the same deathlike stare.
The girl shuddered, and over her colourless face there came a livid shade, which was more deathlike than the marble whiteness that had preceded it.
Deathlike silence reigned in the forest; the dry leaves alone rustled beneath the hem of the gown of the restlessly moving woman.
Deathlike stillness lay over the forest outside, and it was as still in the house where a corpse lay.
No sooner has the last dish been removed than a deathlike stillness falls upon the house: it is the time of the after-dinner siesta.
He moved toward their fires, and found them deserted of men, only the dogs rema g in their deathlike sleep.
So obsessed did he become with the thought that he had a terrible dream one night, and in that dream baby Isobel's face appeared to him, a deathlike mask, white and cold and thinned by starvation.
The very exhalations of his body will plunge you into that dark and deathlike dizziness which follows the smell of a bursting carcase, or the sight of a corpse-strewn battle-field.
Grounsell hastily drew back the covering, and then clutching an arm of those at either side of him, he uttered a faint cry, for the pale and deathlike features before him were those of George Onslow.
As the physician gains his knowledge of anatomy from the lifeless body, so do we learn the complex structure of the human heart in the deathlike stillness of the cell, with the penitent before us.
The snows lay cold and still and deathlike over the Northern world.
She opened the door and Socola entered, his face deathlike in its pallor.
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Now at last at The Towers a deathlike peace reigned.
Then there came a lull, a strange, deep lull, deathlike after the mighty blast.
There was a sense of deathlike passivity in the land, of overwhelming vastitude, of unconquerable loneliness.
A deathlike stillness lay on the valley, not a quiver or movement in leaf or blade.
How deathlike is sleep in this mountain air, and quick the awakening into newness of life!
All at once our column halted; a deathlike silence prevailed, and our hearts beat tumultuously within us.
Notwithstanding the unfavorable circumstances in which I write, after so long a period of deathlike silence, in winch we have almost lost the gift of speech, yet I shall not regret to have composed even in rude and inelegant language, etc.
And by the very frightfulness and shadow of the deathlike army.
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