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His last notable film role was as a cadaverous-looking Souvarine, the Russian anarchist preaching violent action by the miners in Claude Berri's Zola adaptation, Germinal (1993).
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What friends would put her up, besides the cadaverous-looking Stark?
The Payback Club Becnel, Rexanne 2006
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They are a shade darker, or rather ruddier, than Europeans, and are never cadaverous-looking, as descendants of Europeans are said to be elsewhere.
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The chair was taken by a local auctioneer, a cadaverous-looking man, with never a twinkle in his eye, who, in a lengthy discourse and with the single monotonous gesture of beating the palm of one hand with the back of the other, strove to bring home to his audience the degradation of their present political status.
Australia Felix 2003
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He looked in half of them before a cadaverous-looking clerk told him he'd be better off looking at Falmouth, where most of the Fredericksburg wounded still lay in the field hospitals.
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A cadaverous-looking man, somewhat older than those around him, had intended to stop her.
Hamlet II: Ophelia’s Revenge David Bergantino 2003
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He opened it, and beheld before him a tall, meagre, cadaverous-looking priest.
The Alhambra 2002
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He opened it, and beheld before him a tall, meagre, cadaverous-looking priest.
The Alhambra 2002
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Smerdyakov's latest disguise-a cadaverous-looking Marilyn Manson-faded, replaced by a featureless white mask that failed to hide the extreme anger of the man hidden beneath.
The Sinister Six Combo Castro, Adam Troy 2001
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The guy on Dancer's left was tall, graymaned, and vaguely cadaverous-looking, dressed in a dark suit and a blue tie with yellow ovals on it that looked like eyes.
Hoodwink Pronzini, Bill 1981
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