cadaverousness

Without suggesting cadaverousness, though high-boned and prominent, the cheeks fell away and met in a mouth, thin-lipped and softly strong.

THE GREAT INTERROGATION 2010

Huge-boned, tall, gaunt to cadaverousness, his face a dirty death's head, he was as repellent a nightmare of old age as ever Dore imagined.

THE PRINCESS 2010

Fearful squint would be at a premium; scowls would be valued according to their blackness and depth; a ghastly grin would be desirable; while a general cadaverousness might be utilized as suggesting to drunkards the probable end of their career.

Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 Various

Huge-boned, tall, gaunt to cadaverousness, his face a dirty death's head, he was as repellent a nightmare of old age as ever Dore imagined.

The Princess 1918

His whiskers had grown and had given additional cadaverousness to his face as it appeared to me.

The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln Browne, Francis F 1913

Without suggesting cadaverousness, though high-boned and prominent, the cheeks fell away and met in a mouth, thin-lipped and softly strong.

The Great Interrogation 1901

Huge-boned, tall, gaunt to cadaverousness, his face a dirty death's head, he was as repellent a nightmare of old age as ever Dore imagined.

The Red One Jack London 1896

Without suggesting cadaverousness, though high-boned and prominent, the cheeks fell away and met in a mouth, thin-lipped and softly strong.

The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke Jack London 1896

It was the face of an ascetic -- thin featured and thin lipped, pale almost to cadaverousness, but lighted as though with a fire from within.

For the Faith Evelyn Everett-Green 1894

The old heroic stamina of our ancestors, that craved the bitter but nourishing home-brewed, has died out, and in its place there is a sickly cadaverousness that must be pampered and cosseted.

Birds and Poets : with Other Papers John Burroughs 1879