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  • I was trying for a joke, but it came out sounding macabre.†  (source)
  • Saunière's left index finger was also bloody, apparently having been dipped into the wound to create the most unsettling aspect of his own macabre deathbed; using his own blood as ink, and employing his own naked abdomen as a canvas, Saunière had drawn a simple symbol on his flesh—five straight lines that intersected to form a five-pointed star.†  (source)
  • CHAPTER FIVE — Dance Macabre  (source)
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  • Systematically, in her kind, concerned voice she conjured up the macabre future in store for them.†  (source)
  • I asked macabrely.†  (source)
  • Olly: lord of the flies, macabre, black, stealing silverware, my sister†  (source)
  • People think that's macabre, but I do wish it.†  (source)
  • I'm not into all that macabre crap.†  (source)
  • I vaguely remembered a small crowd of vampires hovering close to Aro in his macabre tower, some male, some female.†  (source)
  • Finding Ruthie Back in June 1993, during the course of putting together Mommy's will-something I had to force her to do-the macabre subject of her burial came up.†  (source)
  • In the wild revolving lights his face looked as macabre as any in the frenzied rock group.†  (source)
  • So instead, Josie found herself veering drunkenly from the soft-focus moments with Matt to the macabre.†  (source)
  • He hid his most favored treasures in small boxes, among them his first extracted tooth and a photograph of his "twelve-year-old sweetheart," although later observers speculated these boxes also contained treasures of a more macabre sort, such as the skulls of small animals that he disabled and then dissected, alive, in the woods around Gilmanton.†  (source)
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