"Pulseless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... before him. But ere it could be done, he must subdue himself,—he must become calm and pulseless, in deadly resolve; and what prayer, what penance might avail for this? If all that he had already tried had so miserably failed, what hope? He resolved to quit for a season all human society, and enter upon one of those desolate periods of retreat ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various
... collapse—the deadly coldness with a clammy skin—the irritability of the stomach, and prodigious discharge from the bowels of an opaque serous fluid (untinged with bile in the slightest degree)—with a corresponding shrinking of flesh and integuments—the pulseless and livid extremities—the ghastly aspect of countenance and sinking of the eyes—the restlessness so great, that the patient has not been able to remain for a moment in any one position—yet, with all this, nobody dreamt ...
— Letters on the Cholera Morbus. • James Gillkrest
... body, void of breath, Became the precious spoil of Death. Morn after morn beheld her still Slow sinking, like a mountain rill Whose fountain-head, once bubbling bright, Hath dried away, and left the white And pulseless sand to mark where long Began ...
— Indian Legends of Minnesota • Various
... her hands in his, but it was cold and pulseless, and it seemed to him it told her answer before she said, very kindly, as if sorry ...
— The Cromptons • Mary J. Holmes
... a nullity—a pale, Nerveless and pulseless quasi-invalid, Who, lest the ozone should in aught avail, Remained religiously indoors to read; So that, in wandering at her will, the Child Did, in ...
— Collected Poems - In Two Volumes, Vol. II • Austin Dobson
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