The pallid face of the child had his mother worried. From LearnThat.org.
And as you continue, you perceive what a serious misjudgment 'pallid' is. From Wordnik.com. [An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.] Reference
Though that's all a kind of pallid-faced, blue-tinted early evening sadness sort of thing. From Wordnik.com. [Gawker] Reference
But Big Blue has been looking a bit pallid lately. From Wordnik.com. [Tighter Times At Big Blue] Reference
His eyes were closed and his face pallid as the dead. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
His fingers grew pallid and splayed like magical toad feet. From Wordnik.com. [Waiting for Lunch] Reference
Another drop, and a look of life flashed over the pallid face. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference
Kyle pushes a pallid sliver of fat around the plate with his knife. From Wordnik.com. [Sissyneck] Reference
After the live street, it was a pallid light, in which ghosts moved. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
The hands hung limp: his face was pallid, and the lips blue, as with cold. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
Tooly grew pallid of feature and his cheeks hollowed perceptibly, in a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference
Turning, she saw the girl pallid with fright and shading her eyes with her hands. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Loretta noticed a fine tracery of wrinkles fan outward across his pallid cheekbones. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part I] Reference
He carried her inert, like a precious trophy before which he had become pallid and trembling. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A pallid celebration of the General Motors bailout is being ginned up in time for the elections. From Wordnik.com. [GM, Chapters 1 to 10] Reference
So Mr. Harding duly took a peck at Seraphina's pallid cheek to the huge delight of the children. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
The road to the New Jerusalem has no such pallid and spiritual glory: its colors are those of life. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Incendiary rancor is a pallid description of her accost of her 18-year relationship with Philip Roth. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale Of Exes And Ohs] Reference
He that spoke was a young man, whose face, pallid in the extreme, was full of the noblest expression. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
When the day broke, she stole up to Isabel Chester's room, and kissed her pallid cheeks as she slept. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
The yogurt is scrumptious, too, so rich and complex it leaves pallid, supermarket yogurts in the dust. From Wordnik.com. [Say Good Night, Goats] Reference
When I was thirty years old my face was wrinkled, my cheeks were pallid, and my heart blighted and empty. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Four years since the rebellious young man started a journey that would leave him tired, pallid and sterile. From Wordnik.com. [Sunset] Reference
American blockbusters, simplistic and politically pallid, were never relevant to the South African struggle. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
Twilight descended from the far-off mountains, and the last reflections of the sun became pallid in the east. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There was a flaming red spot in the center of each of the boy's pallid cheeks, and his eyes were still bright. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
V-chips and school uniforms could look a little pallid next to shimmer - ing images of endless economic growth. From Wordnik.com. [Will Jack Hurt Bill?] Reference
Suddenly he threw up his hands and staggered back from the instrument, turning a pallid face upon his companions. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
His skin was a pallid sack and on his chest he sported two enormous dark brown nipples that resembled burnt coins. From Wordnik.com. [Swimming Lessons] Reference
Tears were streaming down his pallid face and the sorrow of a lifetime seemed about to break the bonds of human endurance. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale : a girl of today] Reference
During the day the air throughout a vast extent was filled with a murky haze, through which the sun showed only a pallid glimmer. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
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