The clocks shorn of hands were like claw marks on the surface of the ground, lifeless and sinister.

However, the popular misconception that they were visiting Sudbury because it purportedly resembled the lifeless surface of the moon persists.

I just thought' Gurgeh smiled sadly, touching the lifeless surfaces of the body that had once been Mawhrin-Skel.

The most gigantic line of all was a hard-edged surface set in the tundra, black and lifeless.

Here on the lifeless surface of the City's roof.

Then the thin, pale lips stretched over his teeth again; he pressed his fingertips into a steeple on the lifeless surface of his desk.

The influence of Dionysus was strong enough to cause its lifeless surface to break out in plant growth.

No ripple disturbed the flat, lifeless surface of endless water.

And later, the Viking landers found a surface not just lifeless, but apparently sterilized, perhaps by solar radiation.

Neither fin nor wind rippled its lifeless surface.