dead-and-alive

Historical Examples of dead-and-alive

• But there were never any balls or parties in this dead-and-alive township!

  Elder Conklin

  Frank Harris

• All these effects are nowhere in a dead-and-alive dictation.

  Loyola and the Educational System of the Jesuits

  Thomas Hughes

• Denny interrupted over his shoulder in his dead-and-alive voice.

  "Persons Unknown"

  Virginia Tracy

• Who do you suppose will care to come to a dead-and-alive hole like this?

  Banked Fires

  E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi

• All these dead-and-alive faces have an irresistible ascendency over me, and I myself become also as one dead.

  A Russian Proprietor

  Lyof N. Tolstoi