Adjective : a pallid countenance. ,a pallid musical performance. From Dictionary.com.
Five shillings each to watch the burning blush of shame chasing pallidness from poverty's wan cheek!. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
The pallidness of the European beauties, sickly as the clime, disgusted him -- their venality still more. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
He was powerfully moved; his countenance changed from its usual pallidness to strong suffusion; his hands rather tossed than waved in the air. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
Her complexion may be light or dark, according to fancy; but her interesting pallidness may occasionally be relieved by a hectic flush, yet more interesting. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 331, September 13, 1828] Reference
As he turned his face to one side, I saw that a few, but very few hot tears had been forced from his glassy and blood-shot eyes; and in his writhings he had scratched one cheek against his iron bedstead, the red discoloration of which contrasted sadly with the deathly pallidness of hue, which his visage now showed: during his struggles, one shoe had come off, and lay unheeded on the damp stone-floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 374, June 6, 1829] Reference
The pallidness of his countenance expressed very strongly the danger of perishing in which he had felt himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference
The tableau all waned at last with the pallidness aloft; and once more the Pequod and every soul on her decks were wrapped in a pall. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
It stood against the darkness and hung out a dim complexion of light, or rather of pallidness, that was not light -- not to be described by the pen. From Wordnik.com. [The Frozen Pirate] Reference
His co-voyageur was without curiosity; the former pallidness and silentness resumed their dominion over him, and the lesser gentleman settled moodily back to his newspaper. From Wordnik.com. [Bohemian Days Three American Tales] Reference
Whereas, in the Pacific, all instances of the sort, previously corning under my notice, had been marked by patches of greenish light, unattended with any pallidness of sea. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)] Reference
Wallace turned to Lady Mar with an inquiring look of such wild horror that she found her tongue cleave to the roof of her mouth, and her complexion faded into the pallidness of his. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference
The words were no sooner uttered than every countenance assumed the pallidness of death: and every right hand was raised in the act of blessing the person, and crossing the forehead. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three] Reference
Wallace turned to Lady Mar with an inquiring look of such wild horror, that she found her tongue cleave to the roof of her mouth, and her complexion faded into the pallidness of his. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference
The words were no sooner uttered than every countenance assumed the pallidness of death; and every right hand was raised in the act of blessing the person, and crossing the forehead. From Wordnik.com. [The Lianhan Shee] Reference
I had not observed any particular appearance of health in the females of the country through which I had passed; on the contrary, I had been disappointed in their general pallidness and look of debility. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America] Reference
"I bring you a greeting from your mother," said the chaplain as he came in; and immediately a sweet smile passed over the young knight's countenance, and its deadly pallidness gave place to a bright soft glow. From Wordnik.com. [Sintram and His Companions] Reference
While this pallidness was burning aloft, few words were heard from the enchanted crew; who in one thick cluster stood on the forecastle, all their eyes gleaming in that pale phosphorescence, like a faraway constellation of stars. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick: or, the White Whale] Reference
While this pallidness was burning aloft, few words were heard from the enchanted crew; who in one thick cluster stood on the forecastle, all their eyes gleaming in that pale phosphorescence, like a far away constellation of stars. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
He examined it minutely as he stood on the floor before it, and compared its pale, shadowy, faintly-traced outlines, its faded colours, the stern repose of the eye, and death-like pallidness of the countenance, with its different aspect on the preceding night, when illuminated by the artificial light which fell full upon it, while it left every other part of the room in comparative darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Woodstock; or, the Cavalier] Reference
With death's ashen pallidness dimming his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Beechenbrook A Rhyme of the War] Reference
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