Meanings of lifeless forms in English

For how could any people be spiritually minded, who were the worshippers of lifeless forms?

At any moment, will these apparently lifeless forms stand and go about their usual morning routine?

Along the edge of the pool now, women had gathered, reaching down to collect the limp, lifeless forms.

The assassins lay dead in their own blood, their lifeless forms bathed in sunlight and bedded in deep grasses.

For among the savages outside can be seen at least a score of lifeless forms lying prostrate upon the plain.

You do not reflect that their lifeless forms may be brought in and laid before your eyes at any moment.

Two dead Indians were in the center of the glade, and on the other side were three more bloody, lifeless forms.

They are drugged, robbed, murdered, and then the harbor police may find their lifeless forms floating in the river at daybreak.

More dead than alive, she staggered into the open air, to behold the lifeless forms of both her father and Allan.

Their sculptors are characterized by Flaxman as "mere beginners," or "laborious mechanics;" their works as " lifeless forms, menial vehicles of an idea."

For the moment was swept away my past, with its dreary, lifeless forms, its ghostly ceremonies, its masked shapes, its soulless, rayless, emotionless existence.

Stretched on these cold beds, are lifeless forms, entirely covered with a sheet except as to their faces, which stare blankly at the dark ceiling.

"Alien lifeless forms," Church said with a wooden face.