dead center

Absent a body, no one can say with absolute certainty whether Castro is dead, even if all signs point in that direction.

The controlling center of consciousness is the extreme limit of the nares anteri.

A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.

When he plays a sonata it is as if the composition rose from the dead and stood transfigured before you.

To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.

It is a fearsome thing for a man to be left alone in the dead of night with a young baby.