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Sentences starting with dead

Dead stop,--so still you could hear your hair growing. [6]
Dead people might talk, maybe, but they don't come sliding around in a shroud, when you ain't noticing, and peep over your shoulder all of a sudden and grit their teeth, the way a ghost does. [5]
Dead France woke suddenly to life, wherever the great news traveled. [5]
Dead Bartolomeo preached his pregnant sermon, and its burden was: You that worship the vanities of earth--you that long for worldly honor, worldly wealth, worldly fame--behold their worth! [5]
Dead or alive, he was in Keeley's Gulch, the man who knew where Marcile was; and if he knew where Marcile was, and if she was alive, and he was outside these prison walls, what would he do to her? [11]
Dead people came all the way from the Alleghanies to see his things--the party that occupied the grave next to mine remembers it well. [5]
Dead complexion of all the inhabitants. [6]
Dead bishops and abbots lay under the marble of the floor in their crumbled vestments; dead warriors, in rusted armor, were stretched beneath their sculptured effigies. [6]
Dead long ago. [6]
Dead and buried. [6]

Sentences ending with dead

And we want your captain, alive or dead. [9]
The under-world is yawning, and the giant serpent Apep has come forth from the realm of the dead. [10]
The hands were wrinkled; the face was cold; the body was wet: the man was drowned and dead. [11]
I said I wouldn't miss it if I were dead. [5]
This was the work which was "not to see print until I am dead. [5]
I hunted the woods where it had happened, beating everywhere, thinking that, perhaps, it was dead. [11]
Mr. Shoreham, who witnessed the marriage, is dead. [11]
That old Silence Withers would do just as her minister told her,--even chance whether she gives it to the Parson-factory, or marries Bellamy Stoker, and gives it to him after his wife's dead. [6]
My reckoning is with the dead. [11]
And I promised, with my hand on my heart, that if all who felt no enmity toward me would come forward and pass before me they should see that only those who remained behind would be struck dead. [5]

Short sentences using dead

Their very imagination was dead. [5]
For Jerry Card was dead. [13]
And my mother was dead. [11]
The imperial father was dead. [10]
The air was utterly dead. [5]
She is dead to you. [11]
Is he dead, then? [5]
She can wake the dead! [5]
This is dead sure. [5]
Why didn't you stay dead? [11]

Sentences containing dead two or more times

The expedition of Winthrop was scattered by a storm, and reached Salem with the loss of threescore dead and many sick, to find as many of the colony dead, and all disconsolate. [4]
I suppose he was still carrying forward his plan of reparation in his mind--to the dead for the dead. [8]
Eglington was dead--Eglington was dead --Eglington was dead! [11]
If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it. [5]
I was dead to him, and am dead to him now. [11]
I don't deny the circumstance, although I don't see how you got it out of my autobiography, which was not to be printed until I am dead, unless I'm dead now. [5]
Nitetis was more than dead for her; Bartja, Croesus, Darius, Gyges, Araspes, all so closely allied to her by relationship and friendship, as good as dead. [10]
Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I am not feeling very well myself. [5]
Yes; dead, dead, so he is... And smeared with something! [2]
I am sure she saw Adrian Fellowes lying dead in his room.... Ian, it is awful, but for some reason she hated him, and she saw him lying dead. [11]

More example sentences with the word dead in them

You've told me yourself, how the Hebrews were persecuted in your dead father's day. [10]
But for a young lady in long skirts to make her way down that balsam, squirming about and through the stubs and dead limbs, testing each one before she trusted her weight to it, was another affair. [4]
This alarmed the young fellow, and he was going to make a noise; but I said: "Save your wind; if you open your mouth you are dead, sure. [5]
I mean, if you talk, won't people notice that your voice is just like Jubiter's; and mightn't it make them think of the twin they reckoned was dead, but maybe after all was hid all this time under another name? [5]
Mr. Carvel thought you dead, and we cannot prove undue influence by Grafton unless we also prove that it was he who caused your abduction. [9]
But I thought you dead by now, and--" "If you are disappointed," said I, "there is a way"; and I waved towards his men, then to Mr. Stevens and my own ambushed fellows. [11]
But say--how do you cure 'em with dead cats? [5]
That was ominous, yet she ceased not to hope, and thought: "If he were dead, I should see his corpse. [10]
He saw it yesterday; said it was dying, then, so I reckon it's dead by this time. [5]
Been dead three years--how could it cry? [5]
Dead, these many years, they said. [5]
A year, two years, passed, which were as ten upon the shoulders of the old people, and then, in the dead of winter, an important thing happened. [11]
When I went wrong, she treated me as if I were dead, and took her old name. [11]
My father was wounded, and then the priest frightened them, and they gathered their dead together and buried them. [11]
Her pious heart would run her little head against the wall if matters came to that and, like the noble Moorish steeds, she would drop dead in her tracks rather than stop. [10]
I said I would rather be Anson dead than Mrs. Anson living; I would rather be the active than the passive sinner; the victim, than a part of that great and cruel machine of penalty. [11]
My lord Alexander would have it that he had seen the spirit of one who was dead, and he would gladly give his life to see her once again. [10]
I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions, because rapscallions and dead beats is the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in. [5]
How frightened he would be if the bell should ever sound, and he should go into that hall of the dead to see who rang! [4]
Ah, it was worth ten years of a man's life to be dead then! [5]
The Thugs were worshipers of Bhowanee; and to this god they sacrificed anybody that came handy; but they kept the dead man's things themselves, for the god cared for nothing but the corpse. [5]
When would the world know that Adrian Fellowes lay dead in the room on the Embankment? [11]
And faith without works was dead simply because there could be no faith without works. [9]
And the dead woman's last words? [10]
But the one witness to McGilveray's adventure was dead, and that was why no man knew wherefore it was that McGilveray took an oath to drink no more till they captured Quebec. [11]
It is quite within the possibilities that, a century hence, people would wonder and say, "How did your predecessors come to bury their great dead in this deserted place? [5]
You, there, Muroc, with your charcoal face, who was it walk thirty miles in the dead of winter to bring a doctor to your wife, eh? [11]
The dead silence with which the people in the court below had listened to him, was now broken by shrieks of rage and cries for vengeance. [10]
Mabry fell pierced with twenty buckshot, and almost instantly O'Connor fell dead without a struggle. [5]
Yet, half dead with thirst, barely escaped from drowning, threatened on all sides by fierce hatred, he stood firm, and remained victor also in the open field, after the young King had placed himself at the head of the Egyptians and collected an army. [10]
We left him with only twenty-six dead people to account for, and I felt a tranquil satisfaction in the thought that in so judiciously taking care of No. [5]
He was sitting, with his head bowed on his hands, opposite to the large portrait of her dead mother in her bridal robes. [10]
She seemed dead with fear--yes, she was under his compulsion. [5]
The spur was with difficulty drawn from the skull, and as the kite, though dead, retained his grasp, the two birds were firmly locked together; but the cock when disentangled was very little injured. [1]
I'll replace them with dead ones at half the money. [5]
How did the wish that you could see me dead turn into the fearful resolve to let yourself be killed in my stead? [10]
What it held will, perhaps, never be known, until they are dead and gone, and same curious eye lights on an old yellow letter with the fossil footprints of the extinct passion trodden thick all over it. [6]
We saw only wig-making establishments, with shocks of dead and repulsive hair bound upon the heads of painted waxen brigands who stared out from glass boxes upon the passer-by with their stony eyes and scared him with the ghostly white of their countenances. [5]
But the king's wife, seeing, came and spoke to the king and the others, crying out for the honour of her dead son; so that in a moment of anger they all cried out for death. [11]
And my dead wife owes me a grudge, and is as thankless as she was is her lifetime; for when she appears to me in a dream she does not give me a good word, and often torments me. [10]
You had a wife-- Guida d'Avranche, but Guida d'Avranche is dead. [11]
I don't know why, because Washington's dead at this time of the year. [9]
These simple creatures, whose thoughts are not taken up, like those of educated people, with the care of a great museum of dead phrases, are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. [6]
The dark shape, whose incessant motion could be clearly perceived whenever the starlight broke through the clouds, appeared first near the city of the dead and the strangers' quarter. [10]
The Minorite Ignatius, whom Father Benedictus had sent after him that he might finish the work which the latter had begun, was a man who lacked neither intellect nor eloquence; but he did not possess the fiery enthusiasm and aristocratic confidence of the dead man. [10]
Her oldest son, who on account of hip disease was not fit for hard work, helped her, and the youngest was Ortel, who had carried Eva's basket on the day of her dead mother's consecration. [10]
Mr. Jervas Bellamy, who laid dead with his son, the lieutenant, hand in hand, near the southernmost wall of the prison. [5]
His beloved dead, who in the tumult of carnival mirth had vanished from his memory, again rose before his mind, among them the doctor, who gazed rebukingly at him with his clear, thoughtful eyes. [10]
Therefore the lawyer who had so zealously striven to expedite the blind man's entering into possession of his friend's inheritance would very willingly have permitted Myrtilus--doubtless an invalid--to continue to rest quietly among the dead. [10]
But the person who had hitherto instructed her--the family chaplain--was dead. [10]
To the dead, who had ceased to be dangerous, he was ready to show an excess of magnanimity. [10]
It was Nolan who found your daughter on the prairie--the driver dead, but she just alive when found. [11]
It was "Save who can": they were all on a dead level of misfortune. [11]
As the two whispered to one another and looked tenderly at each other--for Diodoros had insisted on her allowing him to kiss not only her hands but also her sweet red lips--Berenike had pictured her dead daughter in Melissa's place. [10]
He saw that while Gabrielle lived, a dead misfortune would be ever crouching at the threshold of Freeman's home, that whether the woman agreed to be silent or not, the hurt to Clare would remain the same. [11]
The road along which they moved was bordered on both sides by dead horses; ragged men who had fallen behind from various regiments continually changed about, now joining the moving column, now again lagging behind it. [2]
During the days which succeeded the mass for the dead the Ortlieb mansion was very silent. [10]
All the shots which just missed the top of the rampart cut into the dead wall pretty much in a straight line, and at length cut right through and brought the upper story tumbling down. [5]
If we stayed where we were, our dead would kill us; if we moved out of our defenses, we should no longer be invincible. [5]
At Beit Jin, where nobody had interfered with him, he crept out of his tent at dead of night and shot at what he took to be an Arab lying on a rock, some distance away, planning evil. [5]
Where was it when the blue flies were buzzing over the coffins of the unburied dead piled up in the cemetery of New Orleans, at the edge of the huge trenches yawning to receive them? [3]
It was only when he learned the dead man's name, and his parentage, that he looked up quickly from his note book. [9]
We know now what War means, and we cannot look its dull, dead ghastliness in the face unless we feel that there is some great and noble principle behind it. [6]
No one knew what Lindau's religion was, and in default they had had the Anglican burial service read over him; it seems so often the refuge of the homeless dead. [8]
Who can say what cows feel, when they surround and stare intently on a dying or dead companion; apparently, however, as Houzeau remarks, they feel no pity. [1]
I believed thou wert dead these seven years, and lo, here thou art alive! [5]
I thought you were--" "You thought I was dead? [5]
Not far off were two dead artillery horses in their harness. [6]
All the portraits were recognizable as dead Americans of distinction, and yet, through labeling added, by a daring hand, they were all doing duty here as "Earls of Rossmore. [5]
Everywhere dead men were lying outside the second fence--not plainly visible, but still visible; and we counted fifteen of those pathetic statues--dead knights standing with their hands on the upper wire. [5]
Some of them were loud in denunciation of Ingolby and "the Lebanon gang"; they joked coarsely over the dead Orangeman, but their cheerful violence had not yet the appearance of reality. [11]
And yet these were kindly dispensations, for they at least enabled the poor things to rise from the dead now and then, and look upon life when a steamboat went by. [5]
Clay and Webster were dead before this question arose; by what authority shall our Senator say they would espouse his side of it if alive? [7]
In effect they were days of companionship with one's sacred dead, and I have known no comradeship that was so close or so precious. [5]
The most costly were covered with fine red linen, wound about with strings of beads and gold ornaments, and with the name of the dead painted on the upper side. [10]
Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned homeward alone. [5]
So the service-corps were coming at last to take up the wounded and bury the dead. [11]
Passing Theddlethorpe, you went up to Faddo's house, and, looking through the window, you saw Faddo, not dead, but being cared for by his wife. [11]
As the night went by, and the offices had been done for the dead, she took her place by the bedside of the young wife, who lay staring into space, tearless and still, the life consuming away within her. [11]
She knew full well, he said, that his living loves changed in frequent succession, and it would be strange indeed if a dead one could bind him any longer. [10]
It is all well while it burns and scintillates in your emotional centres, without articulate and connected expression; but the minute you plunge it into the rhyme-trough it cools down, and becomes as dead and dull as the cold horse-shoe. [6]
Our dead are welcome there; their life made it beautiful, their death has hallowed it, we shall have them with us always, and there will be no parting. [5]
During two long weeks Tom lay a prisoner, dead to the world and its happenings. [5]
I suppose that wealth and rank have some privileges; but it is the law that the person having been pronounced dead by the physician shall be the same day brought to the dead-house, and lie there three whole days before interment. [4]
Now and then we would hit one of these sunken logs a rattling bang, dead in the center, with a full head of steam, and it would stun the boat as if she had hit a continent. [5]
But of course we were dead tired, and slept like policemen; so when we awoke in the morning and ran to the window it was already too late, because it was half past eleven. [5]
So speedily do we put the dead away and come back to our place in the ranks to march in the pilgrimage of life again. [5]
But per'aps if we keep them till they're ransomed, it means that we keep them till they're dead. [5]
At last when we got done we was 'most dead, but not with work but with laughing. [5]
Is there any way for us Protestants, when love for the dead longs to find expression in action, except to adorn with flowers the places which contain their earthly remains? [10]
But the chief waved aggression down, and came forward to the dead man. [11]
Now, if we watch every night, we'll be dead sure to see him go out, some time or other, and then we'll snatch that box quicker'n lightning. [5]
Brinsmade, if it wasn't for you and your friends on the Western Sanitary Commission, we'd all have been dead of fever and bad food long ago. [9]
Your wife that was--maybe she is dead. [11]
The second letter was, in some way, mislaid and not mailed; and it was not until after the writer of it was dead that it was found and forwarded. [5]
Our pine forest was well scorched, the dead trees all burned up, and our broad acres of manzanita swept away. [5]
She stopped up,--it was very tempting,--late and later, striving to beguile the lonely night with some employment, till her weak eyes failed to read or to sew, and could only weep in solitude over the dead that were not. [14]
A message it was to Camp Pousette-- One that the half-breeds think on yet: "Dubois' gang are in Rocky Glen, Take a hundred and fifty men; Go by the next express," it said, "Bring them up here, alive or dead! [11]
But the picture was to be displayed to-day, as being the feast of the dead, in the hall of the embalmers. [10]
I knew it was the nest of some wild animal; but I was nearly dead with hunger and fatigue. [11]

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