be more dead than alive

As for me I was more dead than alive!

The records say he was more dead than alive.

While "Habit" shows promise, it is more dead than alive.

Its garden was more dead than alive, blasted by salt and sea spray.

It was a terrible cannonade, and I was more dead than alive.

By the time help arrived the room was a furnace and I was more dead than alive."

At the end of the hour's run the unfortunate Kramenin was more dead than alive.

"He was more dead than alive," she said.

Even in the semi-darkness, it wasn't hard to tell that Gunther was more dead than alive.

"By fall of '74," says Carver, "he was more dead than alive.

If you'll believe me, don't scold me; I am more dead than alive, to the last breath yours.

He is more dead than alive, yet more alive than my poor sweet sons.

'And she, poor dear, is more dead than alive!'

The plane carrying the dog crashes into the snow-covered wilderness; the pilot is killed and the dog is more dead than alive.

I was more dead than alive; my feet were so frostbitten that when they got warm they swelled to look like the feet of an elephant.

Spanish was more dead than alive, anyway, and Battles was neither as good as Spanish or me when it came to desert travel.

Hammerhead Jack looks to me to be more dead than alive, so I hope not to have done him much more harm than he has already endured.

Augusta... When I got to Augusta I was more dead than alive, it was that cold.

At other times he is saddled with the film's most babbly aphorisms, including, "If you don't feel in love with life, you are more dead than alive."

And Sergal was old, older than his father and almost as old as grandfather, who was so old that he was more dead than alive.

Mr. Fessenden is his own best actor, but, while "Habit" shows promise, "it is more dead than alive" (Lawrence Van Gelder).

Still, Marianne Placidas was more dead than alive asAmes burst into the emergency entrance with his gory burden, shouting for his friend, surgeon Dominic Ewald.

When they landed on Elephant Island, Frank Hurley, the expedition photographer, recorded in his diary that they were more dead than alive, and that many of them could no longer row.

This human being was more dead than alive; only his burning lust continued to boil.38 After two years, Jerome left the desert for Antioch, and later he went to Constantinople and Rome.

When I first saw him, he was more dead than alive, but we may take it at this moment, under the able ministrations of Mademoiselle Céleste, he is more alive than dead.