With every step of advance the brooding silence seemed more profound, more deathlike.

His face grew more deathlike, his mouth trembled, his eyes rolled, his head dropped.

As Stanley sank back again, more deathlike than ever, Blaine put on all his power and strove to rise.

A sense of oppression came over the two watchers as the minutes grew longer and more deathlike in their stillness.

All the colour had gone from her face, and it seemed to Rosalie that each moment her face was growing whiter and more deathlike.

The girl shuddered, and over her colourless face there came a livid shade, which was more deathlike than the marble whiteness that had preceded it.

"My brother, and my son, and my grandson, are among the number," said the old man, and his face grew yet more deathlike.