Duchemin reflected; but rather Montpellier-the-Deaddead with the utter deadness of that which has never lived.

We are pretty well, save colds and rheumatics, and a certain deadness to everything, which I think I may date from poor John's loss, and another accident or two at the same time, that has made me almost bury myself at Dalston, where yet I see more faces than I could wish.

Her arms and limbs had a curious sort of deadness about them, a detached sensation, as if they belonged to some one else.

At first we may be disposed to say that livingness consists in the power of motion and deadness in its absence; but a little enquiry into the most recent researches of science will soon show us that this distinction does not go deep enough.