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  • I was surrounded by corpse-white bellies and dead flesh hanging from gobbling mouths.

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • I was surrounded by corpse-white bellies and dead flesh hanging from gobbling mouths.

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • Others had skin like toadstool flesh—corpse-white and frilled, with dangling wattles.

    THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010

  • Others had skin like toadstool flesh—corpse-white and frilled, with dangling wattles.

    THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010

  • Their bodies, corpse-white or suffused with a pallid golden light or rawly tanned by the sun, gleamed with the wet of the sea.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

  • 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

  • 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

  • He ducked involuntarily as the huge, corpse-white belly passed overhead.

    The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993

  • 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

  • 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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