stone-dead

Historical Examples of stone-dead

• At the bottom of the wet mess of hair and red and flesh was old Shep, stone-dead.

  Bob, Son of Battle

  Alfred Ollivant

• His forehead rested on the table, his arms hung at his sides; he was stone-dead!

  Villa Rubein and Other Stories

  John Galsworthy

• Too late a bit we were, but we found him, just stone-dead like, and brought him round.

  Somehow Good

  William de Morgan

• The first and readiest is that of which it has been emphatically said, Stone-dead hath no fellow.

  Travels in Arabia

  Bayard Taylor

• And there, surely enough, we found her, stone-dead by the side of the skeleton.

  Tales of South Africa

  H.A. Bryden