A city agen, But peopled by pale mechanical men, With workhouses filled, and prisons, and marts, And faces that spake exanimate hearts.

So long as I do not exanimate you with my letters, I remain content.

Silence on the bier, While I call God—call God!—So let thy mouth Be heir to those who are now exanimate.

The frozen lash was soon severed and the two exanimate bodies lifted in eager hands.

All along the wan stretch of Cheyne Walk the thin trees stood exanimate, with not a breath of wind to stir the snow that pied their soot-blackened branches.