Beyond a sign of wealth, paleness is held in high regard within circles of the hipsterdom's intellectual elite. From Wordnik.com. [Verena von Pfetten: Tan Is The New Tacky] Reference
Next to this charming tenuity, perhaps her paleness was her most noticeable trait. From Wordnik.com. [The Pit] Reference
But it was the kind of paleness that one has after a particularly exquisite experience. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
Here the word has the root meaning of "paleness"; it is the. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture] Reference
Their contributions, though well intentioned, only highlight the peculiar "paleness" of it all. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
She was pale with that paleness which is like the transparency of a divine life in an earthly face. From Wordnik.com. [What Great Men Have Said About Women Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 77] Reference
Amelius had turned to the strange ashy paleness which is only seen in men of his florid complexion, overwhelmed by sudden emotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Fallen Leaves] Reference
= -- Scurvy begins with general weakness and paleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
There was a paleness on their faces which announced no good. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The paleness of his countenance bespoke the austerity of his life. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
The agitation of the man in the doorway was announced by the paleness of his face. From Wordnik.com. [General Max Shorter] Reference
Gina Montani was right: the flush of excitement on his face had turned to paleness. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
His paleness, the coldness of his eyes, he was like something fished out of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Camera Obscura] Reference
Edith grew into a slender, retiring girl, her paleness accentuated by her black hair. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Marie looked at the Queen, and thought she remarked paleness and disquiet on her features. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
His face was overspread with an ashy paleness, his eyes were closed, his lips blue and pinched. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
Our features assumed the paleness of death, and a cold dew rolled in large drops from our foreheads. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
The disease is manifested by "sallow skin, paleness, headache, swollen abdomen and sores on the legs.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
Reine bit her lip, and her paleness increased so as to set off still more the fervid lustre of her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The subtle odor increased in intensity and the Viscount's face changed from violet to an ashen paleness. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
The paleness of his cheeks for the past week was beginning to give way again to the faint glow of health. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
Her small brown nipples are erect, contrasting against the paleness of her breasts, shoulders and stomach. From Wordnik.com. [In the Forest of the Snake People (Part 1)] Reference
I warn you that all this hypochondria, paleness, and languor are caprices which are very disagreeable to others. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
When Frank saw the farmer's nose bleeding so profusely, and the deathly paleness on his face, he cried for help. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
If paleness, languor, or unusual color is observed, it is at once traced to its cause, and that cause is removed. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
Later, blood may be lost at other times, and the loss may be so great as to cause pronounced paleness and weakness. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
The only deviation from the normal that I could discover about the uterus was undue paleness of the cervical portion. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
Paul came to his feet and leaned over the desk, there was a paleness immediately beneath his ears and along his jaw line. From Wordnik.com. [Revolution] Reference
This paleness, however, need not necessarily be produced by admixture with white: it can be gained by means of thin washes. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
And if he see in the walls thereof as it were little dints, disfigured with paleness or redness, and lower than all he rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Both eyes started from his head and his face turned to ashen paleness as he danced about the floor shrieking "I am poisoned.". From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference
He was very slender, and with a sort of a lily paleness on his forehead, that fatigue or sorrow had lent to its natural delicacy. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
As she sat this time in her Gothic chamber, and in her accustomed chair, what a mortal paleness had settled upon her countenance!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
Is prepared in Paris, and differs in no essential particular from ordinary chromate of lead, except in the paleness of its colour. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Aunt Melissa, her sister, five years the senior, was tall and strong, but her paleness had long been unhealthily tinted with sallowness. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
The flush on the girl's handsome countenance was succeeded by an ashen paleness, but she eventually managed to obtain control of herself. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
If the paleness of your True is to follow us into art, we shall close at once the theatre and the book, to avoid meeting it a second time. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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