| 1. | Pride, contempt, defiance, stubbornness, submission, lamentation, succeeded one another so did varieties of sunken cheek, cadaverous colour, emaciated hands and figures. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | I had stooped and was scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the colonel looking down at me. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 3. | In person he was cadaverous dead looking and blackavized dark faced, and his hair was dressed in long curls, which at a little distance looked like black candles, and gave a singularly threatening expression to his handsome countenance. - from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie |
| 4. | There were hardly any black coats or round hats now, but smock frocks, blouses, caps, and bristling and cadaverous heads. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |