dead to the world

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dead to the world

sleeping to the greatest degree possible. Guy was curled up on the sofa, dead to the world.

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During two long weeks Tom lay a prisoner, dead to the world and its happenings. Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context There were some broken men among these debtors who had been in jail so long, and were so miserable and destitute of friends, so dead to the world, and utterly forgotten and uncared for, that they implored their jailers not to set them free, and to send them, if need were, to some other place of custody. Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context An' a better man than them, that I love, layin' there dead to the world with a skinned face on the mat. The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context More results

References in classic literature

During two long weeks Tom lay a prisoner, dead to the world and its happenings.

Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context

There were some broken men among these debtors who had been in jail so long, and were so miserable and destitute of friends, so dead to the world, and utterly forgotten and uncared for, that they implored their jailers not to set them free, and to send them, if need were, to some other place of custody.

Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context

An' a better man than them, that I love, layin' there dead to the world with a skinned face on the mat.

The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context

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