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Examples
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I was surrounded by corpse-white bellies and dead flesh hanging from gobbling mouths.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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I was surrounded by corpse-white bellies and dead flesh hanging from gobbling mouths.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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Others had skin like toadstool flesh—corpse-white and frilled, with dangling wattles.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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Others had skin like toadstool flesh—corpse-white and frilled, with dangling wattles.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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Their bodies, corpse-white or suffused with a pallid golden light or rawly tanned by the sun, gleamed with the wet of the sea.
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And now he saw that the white glazing of the dead one's eyes had been the real color; the wyrsa's eyes were a dead, opaque corpse-white.
The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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And now he saw that the white glazing of the dead one's eyes had been the real color; the wyrsa's eyes were a dead, opaque corpse-white.
The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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He ducked involuntarily as the huge, corpse-white belly passed overhead.
The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993
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The knight caught a brief vision of something akin to a wolf in form-but the resemblance ended with the thing's corpse-white pallor, as though it had been skinned.
The Legend Of Huma Knaak, Richard A. 1988
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His skin was corpse-white, splotched with cyanotic blue-gray, and blood dribbled from his nose and mouth.
The Misenchanted Sword Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1985
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