Mr. Rochester took the sponge, dipped it in water, moistened the corpse-like face, and applied my smelling-bottle to the nostrils.

cadaverous, corpse-like; unburied &c 363; sapromyiophyllous^. 363.

Fancy yourself hemmed in with your direst grief by a drifting sleet in such a voiceless, viewless place as that corpse-like track,the endless, painless track, stretching away in the white mystery, at peace, like all dead things.

She looked as though she had but just been placed in the coffin, nor did her body exhale any corpse-like smell.

They had few friends, few books, few, or rather one, newspaper whose petrified principles corresponded to Vaucoux' need for conservation, in the corpse-like meaning of the word.

It was from the thin, white-faced man who had sat corpse-like on the edge of his bunk the night before.

As I walked along, gazing at the tall grim buildings and dark alleys, that were so full of old, historical memories, I was suddenly recalled from a reverie, by a feeble cry; and turning quickly round I saw, in the arms of a robust and rosy lad, the wasted, corpse-like form of my little friend.

Hope at last springs up elate, That the living shall no more Corpse-like rot, as heretofore,

She was so corpse-like I was afraid she'd drop dead, then and there: but I made out at last to say, 'Rachel, I've come all the way from Illinois to see you.'

So we sat down to cards, and Miss Havisham sat, corpse-like, watching as we played.

Anxiety for Margaret, too, had wasted her to a skeleton, and her thin, sharp face, now of a corpse-like pallor, contrasted strangely with her eyes, from which the wildness all was gone.

The emaciated priest spoke for the first time, a tinge of colour creeping into his corpse-like cheeks, and a more lurid light in his deep-set eyes.

His eyes were fixed like baleful lights in a haggard, corpse-like countenance.

There was a healthful suffusion on their cheeks, instead of the ashen hue that had made them look so corpse-like.

The Aunt Tomasa, with her energetic and enterprising character, brought a woman from outside the Cathedral to nourish the child, but after two days, and before the effects became visible, she came no more, as if she had felt disgusted at the miserable and corpse-like little body touching her.

The recollection of that corpse-like figure in that gloomy bedroom has haunted me ever since I left the house.

His sunburnt, sallow, haggard, ghastly face, stained early and for life with the corpse-like coloring of malarious fevers, was a fit setting for such optics.

Suddenly she seemed to see her friends and relatives, as they, with corpse-like faces and flowing shrouds, passed in awful procession along the Rhine....