Even before Silas had taken his hasty glance, Annie Dorris had knelt beside the inanimate clay of her husband, and he thought he had better go away-he could think of nothing else to do-and leave her.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
To show the listless and inanimate manner in which some speeches, truly great in their logic and in their facts, are delivered in the House, let me state an incident.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
The affair seemed to be considered as a huge joke, and the chief amusement now consisted in hanging over the broken side and contemplating the gruesome spectacle of a half-submerged motor, and four human bodies lying inanimate on some rocks, rapidly swelling, thanks to heat and the current.
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard