He had known it, plainly enough, by the fact of Stephen's presence there, but it seemed to him that he had known it from his first awakening that morning and that he was only waiting to change into hard outline the misty shapelessness of his earlier fears.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
Their bodies or their fragments lay in every shape and shapelessness of death, in puddles of broken trenches or on the edge of deep ponds in shell-craters.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
Dead bodies lay about in every shape and shapelessness of death.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs