stone-dead

Worthingtons hands were fastened on the strangers throat, and both men were stone-dead.

The bear was tottering now, and another blow on the back of the head from the Indian behind brought him down, stone-dead.

There is something almost heroic in the idea of firing off guns for a man who has been stone-dead for about four centuries.

He fell forward and lay there in the sand without another motion, stone-dead.