dead-alive

It was a dead-alive kind of place, with all the houses shut up and to be bought for very little.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

It is a regular cathedral city, and so dead-alive, so unvisited by strangers, that I suppose it would not pay to have one.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

There is a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation.

Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

No longer dead-alive, now all of the blessed dead, freed from their dreadful slavery!

The Moon Pool 2004

Back they flowed until from golden doors to cavern mouth a wide lane stretched, walled on each side by the dead-alive.

The Moon Pool 2004

The ‘Banks of Jordan’ was a public-house in the city, which from its appearance did not seem to do a very thriving trade; but as it was carried on from year to year in the same dull, monotonous, dead-alive sort of fashion, it must be surmised that some one found an interest in keeping it open.

The Three Clerks 2004

The cavern was paved with the dead-alive, the Akka carrying them out by the hundreds, casting them into the waters.

The Moon Pool 2004

The serried ranks of the dead-alive trembled, shook.

The Moon Pool 2004

The ranks of the dead-alive quivered, moved, writhed, as though each felt the torment of the Thing that had enslaved them.

The Moon Pool 2004

Whatever the force that, streaming from the Dweller or impregnating its lair, had energized the dead-alive, it was barrier against putrescence of any kind; that at least was certain.

The Moon Pool 2004