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Examples
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She put both arms around my mother, and my mom felt the clammy dead-white skin attaching itself to her back like an octopus.
the snake charmer Jerry Ratch 2011
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Their Siwash socks were similarly conditioned, and when these had been thawed and removed, the dead-white tips of the toes, in the various stages of mortification, told their simple tale of the trail.
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Beyond, on the opposing slope, the vague outlines of a glacier loomed dead-white through the driving rain.
SIWASH 2010
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Their Siwash socks were similarly conditioned, and when these had been thawed and removed, the dead-white tips of the toes, in the various stages of mortification, told their simple tale of the trail.
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He fell to the left, hitting his dead-white head against the stones.
Kahen no Ame H-M Brown 2010
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Following her down was a large, flabby man with dead-white hair.
Kahen no Ame H-M Brown 2010
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Francine put both arms around Bess, and Bess felt the woman's clammy dead-white skin attaching itself to her back.
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Tattoos would have added some visual interest and helped cover all that dead-white motionless flesh.
Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010
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He looked up then; his face was dead-white, unshaven and sheened with a cold sweat that had soaked his hair and shirt.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Her large black eyes, accentuated by heavy kohl makeup, set off her rounded, dead-white face.
Theda Bara. 2009
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