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He was a man whose figure promised cadaverousness, but who had an excessively red face, though shaped like a horse’s. 

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles

He turned suddenly; and, as the green curtain fell with a flap, the dip lost its flame, and a black reek vied with that heavy cadaverousness.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander

But no sooner is there a gastric revolt at the diabolical inventions of some high-priestess of the kitchen, with a growing cadaverousness, than every friend is ready with an ominous warning.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey

Huge-boned, tall, gaunt to cadaverousness, his face a dirty death’s head, he was as repellent a nightmare of old age as ever Doré imagined. 

From The Red One by London, Jack

He was a man whose figure promised cadaverousness, but who had an excessively red face, though shaped like a horse's.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest