All 50 Uses of
cadaver
in
Walk Two Moons
- Dad wanted to be alone with the red-headed Margaret Cadaver.†
p. 5.4
- Because I first saw Phoebe on the day my father and I moved to Euclid, I began my story of Phoebe with the visit to the red-headed Margaret Cadaver's, where I also met Mrs. Partridge, her elderly mother.†
p. 9.2
- Who cares how he met Margaret Cadaver?†
p. 9.9
- When at last we left Mrs. Cadaver and Mrs. Partridge, we drove for approximately three minutes.†
p. 10.0
- Two blocks from Margaret Cadaver's was the place where my father and I were now going to live.†
p. 10.1
- Maybe this is really why he was happy, I thought, or maybe it was because he could be alone with Margaret Cadaver.†
p. 16.2
- As we passed Margaret Cadaver's house, a voice called out.†
p. 16.2
- You don't seem to know Mrs. Cadaver and Mrs. Partridge very well—†
p. 17.5
- And speaking of odd, there's something very odd about that Mrs. Cadaver.†
p. 20.4
- First, there is that name: Cadaver.†
p. 20.6
- You know what cadaver means?
p. 20.6 *cadaver = word for: the dead body of a human beingeditor's notes: In this novel, there is a woman whose name just happens to be Margaret Cadaver—Sal's father's friend who lives next door to Phoebe. At one point, Sal refers to her as Mrs. Corpse.
- She could convince me of just about anything—especially about Margaret Cadaver.†
p. 21.3
- From that day on, Margaret Cadaver's hair did look spooky and her voice did sound exactly like dead leaves.†
p. 21.4
- Her name is Mrs. Cadaver, right?†
p. 21.8
- Have you ever wondered what happened to Mr. Cadaver?†
p. 21.9
- What was the diabolic thing that happened to Mr. Cadaver?†
p. 26.1
- I explained that just as Phoebe was going to divulge the purely awful thing that had happened to Mr. Cadaver, her father came home from work and we all sat down to dinner: me, Phoebe, Mr. and Mrs. Winterbottom, and Phoebe's sister, Prudence.†
p. 26.3
- She said, "You wouldn't think it to look at her, but Mrs. Cadaver is as strong as an ox."†
p. 29.3
- I think maybe she killed Mr. Cadaver and chopped him up and buried him in the backyard.†
p. 29.5
- That night, as I lay in bed, I thought about Mrs. Cadaver, and I wanted to believe that she was capable of killing her husband and chopping him into pieces and burying him in the backyard.†
p. 29.7
- Mrs. Cadaver came screeching up to the curb in her yellow Volkswagen, with her wild red witch hair flying all over the place.†
p. 62.8
- Mrs. Cadaver.†
p. 62.9
- Cadaver?†
p. 62.9
- "Hi, Sal," Mrs. Cadaver called.†
p. 63.0
- "My, you're very polite," Mrs. Cadaver said, flashing her wild gray eyes.†
p. 63.1
- "Why not?" he said, too loudly, because Mrs. Cadaver looked up and said, "What?"†
p. 63.3
- Mrs. Cadaver said, "Sal, do you want to come in?"†
p. 63.4
- Through the window, we could see Ben lugging the axe up the front steps of Mrs. Cadaver's house.†
p. 63.9
- Phoebe called out, "Don't go in!" but when Mrs. Cadaver held the front door open, Ben disappeared inside.†
p. 63.9
- A little later we saw Ben leave Mrs. Cadaver's house.†
p. 64.5
- "After you call the police," Mrs. Winterbottom said, "call Mrs. Cadaver.†
p. 78.5
- After her mother left, Phoebe said, "Mrs. Cadaver works odd hours, doesn't she?†
p. 78.9
- That day Mrs. Cadaver was home, puttering around her garden.†
p. 79.2
- Mrs. Cadaver hacked branches off of trees and hauled these to the back of her lot where she lumped them into a pile of branches that she had hacked off last week.†
p. 79.3
- Next, Mrs. Cadaver slashed and sliced at a pitiful rosebush that had been trying to creep up the side of her house.†
p. 79.5
- Mrs. Cadaver pointed to the rhododendron bush and then at the axe, but Mr. Birkway shook his head.†
p. 79.9
- Then he and Mrs. Cadaver gouged and prodded and tunneled around in the dirt until the poor old rhododendron flopped onto its side.†
p. 80.0
- Like Mr. Cadaver—as I told you before.†
p. 80.3
- A few days after Phoebe and I had seen Mr. Birkway and Mrs. Cadaver whacking away at the rhododendron, I walked home with Phoebe after school.†
p. 95.1
- She had been asking me why I had not said anything to my father about Mrs. Cadaver and Mr. Birkway, and I told her that I was waiting for the right time.†
p. 95.5
- What would you do if Mrs. Cadaver chopped up your father?†
p. 95.8
- By this time he was receiving letters from Mrs. Cadaver, and I knew that he was answering her letters.†
p. 104.2
- Then he drove up to see Mrs. Cadaver while I stayed with Gram and Gramps.†
p. 104.3
- Mrs. Cadaver had helped him find a job.†
p. 104.4
- I didn't even wonder how he had met Mrs. Cadaver or how long he had known her.†
p. 104.4
- "Let's see," Gramps said, "didn't Peeby want you to tell your daddy about Mrs. Cadaver and Mr. Birkway hacking up her husband?"†
p. 106.6
- One Sunday, when my father was looking through the photo albums, I asked him if he knew much about Mrs. Cadaver.†
p. 106.9
- It looked like I was merely jealous of Mrs. Cadaver.†
p. 107.7
- There in the calm light of my father, all those things that Phoebe had said about Mrs. Cadaver seemed foolish.†
p. 107.7
- I hoped Mr. Birkway was in love with Margaret Cadaver and would marry her and take her away so that my father and I could go back to Bybanks.†
p. 108.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(cadaver) the dead body of a human being -- especially one used for medical studySynonym Comparison (if you're into word choice):
Typically cadaver references a body used for medical reasons such as medical education or research. Otherwise a dead body is more likely to be referenced by the word corpse or body. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)