What is "deads"

Usage examples of "deads".

This day Tuesday, the 9th of March, 1993-would be an unusual one for Zanzibar: five deads were aboard the plane, the first of their kind ever to visit that fragrant isle.

Then came the deads, after an interval of half a minute: probably they had been sitting together at one end of the nearly empty plane and the others had been at the other.

The only certain difference he could detect about the deads was in their eyes, a way they had of remaining unnervingly fixed in a single intense gaze for many seconds before shifting.

He fumbled forms, he stamped a visa in the wrong place, he stammered while telling the deads that he must keep their passports overnight.

Klein had only one friend with whom he dared talk about it, a colleague of his at UCLA, a sleek little Parsee sociologist from Bombay named Framji Jijibhoi, who was as deep into the elaborate new subculture of the deads as a warm could get.

The deads are beginning to abandon their early philosophy of total separatism.

Communication was swift among the deads and the obvious rarely needed voicing.

Klein recognized him: Anthony Gracchus, one of the deads who had accompanied Sybille to Zanzibar.

He is one of my informants, a dead, a man who has rejected the authority of the Guidefathers, a person who is of the deads but not with them.

Sybille has seen them muttering prayers and fondling amulets whenever they accidentally touch one of the deads, and has occasionally detected an unguarded glance conveying unalloyed fear, possibly revulsion.

African wildlife, which is to say anything that was living here before the deads leased this tract from the Masai, is protected by government decree.

Such other deads as Klein had seen at close range had about them an air of unearthly serenity, but not this one: Dolorosa was tense, fidgety, a knuckle-cracker, a lip gnawer.

Early in April he flew to Salt Lake City, rented a car, and drove out past Moab into the high plateau rimmed by red-rock mountains where the deads had built Zion Cold Town.

So this was the environment in which the deads chose to spend their second lives.

This was the house of strangers, the hotel for visiting deads, a long low cinderblock structure, functional and unglamorous, one of the least seductive buildings in this city of stark disagreeable buildings.