All 3 Uses of
pallid
in
Jane Eyre
- I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, — all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.†
Chpt 11
- In each of the sisters there was one trait of the mother — and only one; the thin and pallid elder daughter had her parent's Cairngorm eye: the blooming and luxuriant younger girl had her contour of jaw and chin — perhaps a little softened, but still imparting an indescribable hardness to the countenance otherwise so voluptuous and buxom.†
Chpt 21
- Strange hardships, I imagine — poor, emaciated, pallid wanderer?†
Chpt 29 *
Definition:
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(pallid) abnormally pale (lacking healthy skin color); or anything that lacks energy or liveliness