wax-like

• “The great, cream-white blooms, a foot in diameter and more, lily-like and wax-like, white beacons of attraction in the dark, penetrating and seducing the night with their perfume, were busy and beautiful with their brief glory of living.”

  THE KANAKA SURF

• “Farthest advanced of all was Charles Davis, the man who by all rights should long since be dead, his face with its wax-like pallor startlingly in contrast to the weathered faces of the rest.”

  CHAPTER XLII

• “Considering Dan Slott's only real notable Spider-Man contribution was the admitting fun pastiche of old Spider-Man, it does make sense that he's the one kicking off the 'revitalised' ASM, but why would I want to read a winking Spider-Man story with Steve McNiven's stiff, wax-like humans but plenty of detailed bricks art, done "just like old days, but MODERN!" when I can read Stan/Steve/Johnny's groundbreaking stuff that's played as straight fun and beautiful storytelling?”

  Amazing Spider-Man #545 Kinda Review | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources

• “The flame of the little lamp softly flickered, stirred by the draught of fresh air, and shadows stirred all over the room, even over the motionless wax-like yellow face of my aunt ....”

  The Watch

• “Her wax-like flesh (for after all, flesh and blood I think she is) by its delicacy and firmness, answers for the soundness of her health.”

  Clarissa Harlowe

• “Her prettiness, wax-like in its quality, fascinated him; her indifference aroused perhaps his combative soul.”

  The Financier

• “They stood before each other now, Lester pale and rather flaccid, Robert, clear, wax-like, well-knit, and shrewd, and one could see the difference time had already made.”

  Jennie Gerhardt

• “Then followed the visit to Golconda and its tombs of wax-like”

  The Life of Sir Richard Burton

• “I mounted a chair to see her face, yet where it should have been I could see only that wax-like, transparent something.”

  Childhood

• “Every object seemed to mingle together in a strange blur — the candles, the brocade, the velvet, the great candelabra, the pink satin cushion trimmed with lace, the chaplet of flowers, the ribboned cap, and something of a transparent, wax-like colour.”

  Childhood

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