1 He has been dead ten hours now.
2 He could not help seeing the dead thing.
3 Of course, our engagement is a dead secret.
4 It had perhaps served often as a pall for the dead.
5 Ugliness is one of the seven deadly virtues, Gladys.
6 The dead man was still sitting there, too, and in the sunlight now.
7 I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad.
8 They ultimately found her lying dead on the floor of her dressing-room.
9 It was a marvellous spotted thing, as effective as the seven deadly sins.
10 Strange, that my first passionate love-letter should have been addressed to a dead girl.
11 Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-coloured pearls in the mouths of the dead.
12 I was furious with him, and told him that Juliet had been dead for hundreds of years and that her body was lying in a marble tomb in Verona.
13 One day, a fatal day I sometimes think, I determined to paint a wonderful portrait of you as you actually are, not in the costume of dead ages, but in your own dress and in your own time.
14 Yes: that blind, slow-breathing thing crawled no more, and horrible thoughts, time being dead, raced nimbly on in front, and dragged a hideous future from its grave, and showed it to him.
15 To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.
16 He collected together from all parts of the world the strangest instruments that could be found, either in the tombs of dead nations or among the few savage tribes that have survived contact with Western civilizations, and loved to touch and try them.
17 After a strained moment of silence, he leaned across and said, very quietly, but watching the effect of each word upon the face of him he had sent for, "Alan, in a locked room at the top of this house, a room to which nobody but myself has access, a dead man is seated at a table."
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