A deathlike silence reigned; the room seemed to be empty.

A deathlike silence reigned in the little room.

They were divinely recompensed when they saw the cold sweats disappear, the moaning lips become stilled, the deathlike faces recover animation.

No one answered; a deathlike silence reigned over the house, with its door yawning wide open, like the mouth of a cavern.

A tremor passed over her deathlike countenance, a flush mounted to her cheeks.

His lily-like whiteness increased until it became a deathlike pallor.

The deathlike weakness and decay of Mr. Falkland, his misery and rage, his haggard, emaciated, and fleshless visage, are still before me.

After that she got softer and weaker-like, an' didn't have her deathlike wearin' sleeps so often, but she went just as fast for all that.

She felt a deathlike sinking of her heart.

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.

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.

It is a most deathlike performance, and the countenance answers well enough to the coins of the unfortunate beauty, though not at all to any of the portraits I have happened to see.

There was a moment of deathlike silence, and then a wild outcrywomen fainting, men cursing and crying out in that senseless, helpless way they have when there is sudden danger.

" "Of what character?" "It was a look of horror, disgust, surprise,a little perhaps of all three; I could not quite say which, it faded so quickly and was followed by a cold, deathlike pallor.

Just then the boat, being full, pulled off, and I saw her faint; her head fell back, and her deathlike face showed how she suffered.

The fifth day of her disease it assumed a more alarming appearance, her extremities becoming cold, and a deathlike palor overspreading her countenance, accompanied by a stupid, dozing state.

"A deathlike paleness was diffused over his countenance; a chilling terror convulsed his frame; his voice burst out at intervals into broken accents.

But when they saw Charles felled to the floor, and a deathlike silence ensued, they forgot their fears, and rushed down the stairs.

During his stay his eyelids did not once close, or, indeed, move in the slightest degree; and farther, there was a deathlike stillness in his whole person, owing to the absence of the heaving motion of the chest, caused by the process of respiration.

A deathlike stillness prevailed, while the subordinates adjusted the rope, and placed the condemned man on the grating.

"Death to the traitorbloody deathlike that which he has rejoiced in!" "Nay, my friends," said I, "it was because of the death of Hans Pulitz and that of others that I would strengthen the hands of liberty and make an end of tyranny.

Soon her kisses and her soothing words had their wonted effect, and he dropped off once more into the deep, deathlike slumber of childhood.

I can't say that I was expecting a very pleasant evening, but the deathlike stillness, both of ourselves and the town did, I confess, startle me.

His father and Myrvin gently sought to lead him away, but scarcely had he proceeded two paces, when he sunk down on the grass in a long and deathlike swoon; so painfully had it the appearance of death, that his father and friends believed for a time his spirit had indeed fled to seek his Mary; but he recovered.

It was an echo of the old legendhow a knight descended into a deep fountain beneath which the fairest princess of the world lay buried in a deathlike magic slumber.