Even that cadaverous-jawed, Tennants'-stalk of a woman thinks it would be better for her to die.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
In fatal cases the breath has a peculiar, fetid, cadaverous odor, and is taken in short gasps; the horns, ears, and extremities become cold and clammy, and the pulse is imperceptible.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
While they are strangely interesting as a study they are never attractive, with their cringing, servile manners and dirty gabardines, their cadaverous faces, piercing black eyes, their hooked noses and ringleted locks.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou