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  • With no overhead lights the courtroom, always pallid, seemed grayer and duller than ever.†   (source)
  • Indeed, those boys looked mightily overworked as it was; a particularly pallid young man had to be Creon in one play and Poseidon in the other.†   (source)
  • Though such pale green tends to wash out women of pallid skin.†   (source)
  • Dany could smell the stench of Illyrio's pallid flesh through his heavy perfumes.†   (source)
  • Bill, Robert, Harold, Henry; the choir boy who had fainted sat up against a palm trunk, smiled pallidly at Ralph and said that his name was Simon.†   (source)
  • His complexion was yellow and pallid, and black and red splotches stippled his neck.†   (source)
  • The man's large, pallid face went slack.†   (source)
  • The house had taken on the pallid sheen of a Toys "R" Us factory outlet.†   (source)
  • Facing my pallid reflection in the mirror, I was forced to admit that I was lying to myself.†   (source)
  • In other words, was there some original master story for any particular myth from which all subsequent stories—pallid imitations—are "displacements," or does the myth take shape by slow accretion as variant story versions are told and retold over time?†   (source)
  • His face was a pallid green from never leaving the house.†   (source)
  • Seven weeks in prison had left her pallid-faced, but as radiantly Nollie as ever.†   (source)
  • Mvúla—a pale white termite that comes out after a rain—is what people here call Rachel, because she's so pallid.†   (source)
  • Jack sitting at the table, pallid and grizzled, a cigarette jittering between his fingers.†   (source)
  • She spent interminable hours staring at the pallid landscape that stretched out before her window.†   (source)
  • Her face was pallid.†   (source)
  • The raven lifted his pallid head and uttered his ominous cry,"Wyrda!"†   (source)
  • The only people in the waiting room besides Doctor Nolan and me were a pallid man in a shabby maroon bathrobe and his accompanying nurse.†   (source)
  • One of these was the Canadian-born poet, Lorenzo, moon-faced, with much curly hair; and his girl, a refugee from the Texas backwater, scissor-faced, with much straight hair, and a thumb-chewing giggle; and their sidekick, older, lantern-jawed, with tortured lips, who scowled when he was pleased—which was rare—and smiled a pallid smile when he was frightened—which was almost always—so that he enjoyed the reputation of being extremely good-natured.†   (source)
  • She is a tall, languid young lady with a pallid, oval face and beautiful pale-blue-gray eyes; her hands are extraordinary-long-fingered, flexible, nervously elegant.†   (source)
  • Even broad, seasoned Mavity Bence grew pallid and gaunt.†   (source)
  • My cheeks, which had been burning with anger, now looked pallid and lifeless.†   (source)
  • Ozzie stopped not far from the shoes, raised his umbrella, and looked at the pallid, pathetic face of a man he'd met only twice.†   (source)
  • Beyond the ominous water were reared vast cliffs, their stern faces pallid in the fading light: final and impassable.†   (source)
  • Between them the ground was bare and the naked chalk showed a pallid, dirty white under the cream-colored elder bloom.†   (source)
  • Only the swift actions of the dwarves, and the self-sacrifice of several of them, allowed his limp, pallid form to be taken to safety.†   (source)
  • I don't expect her to answer, but to my surprise, she unbuttons her uniform jacket and pulls up the shirt beneath to reveal a stretch of pallid skin.†   (source)
  • His bones seem to shine under the surface of his skin, which is as pallid as a fish at the bottom of a pond.†   (source)
  • "No ...!" she whispered, her pallid face growing paler.†   (source)
  • They prescribed vitamins and sugar pills and pills to make her sleep, but Celia diminished, ever more pallid, in her bed.†   (source)
  • Her mouth was a tight little crescent, the petulant mouth of a child demanding adulation-on the spreading, pallid face of a woman past fifty.†   (source)
  • Blythe and Kate, the respective girlfriends of Kirk and Matt, were at a table together sharing a plate of pallid-looking nachos.†   (source)
  • He wanted to ask one of the students, a pallid twitch of a boy, if it was hot.†   (source)
  • His face is grim and long, his eyes are burning in his pallid face.†   (source)
  • By the time he married her he'd already been two years at the station, KCUF, and the lot on the pallid, roaring arterial was far behind him, like the Second World or Korean Wars were for older husbands.†   (source)
  • But then the compensating thought occurred to me that the wolf had not stood upon the order of his (her) going either, and I began to feel somewhat better; a state of mind which may have been coincidental with the rising of the sun, which was now illuminating the bleak world outside my window with a gray and pallid light.†   (source)
  • But Sholom Weiss, a pallid dour thirtyish man with aggressive horn-rims and a green eyeshade, was such a startling double of every heavy, unbending, mirthless German bureaucrat and demi-monster she had known in years past that she had the weird sense that she had been thrust back into the Warsaw of the occupation.†   (source)
  • I settled for being pallid and provincial, out of my own eternal timidity.†   (source)
  • I could visualize myself, pallid and thin.†   (source)
  • Lavinia McGovern, her eyes swollen and pink against pallid skin, lay back on a chaise.†   (source)
  • Her fingers, cuddling it, were plump and pallid.†   (source)
  • His shirt and trousers were clean, and his stubby fingers, away from the shoemaker's bench, were strangely pallid.†   (source)
  • No; she looked at him, a huddle under blankets, his face a pallid glimmer in the growing dawn.†   (source)
  • Slowly it grew to a little globe of pallid light.   (source)
    pallid = pale
  • And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
    On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;   (source)
    pallid = pale and/or lacking liveliness
  • Kohler interrupted, looking amazed as he ran a pallid finger around one's base.†   (source)
  • An ugly flush suffused Snape's pallid face.†   (source)
  • The shower curtain, a pallid pastel pink, was drawn protectively around the long claw-footed tub.†   (source)
  • The figure was a pallid outline against the earthen floor.†   (source)
  • Snape-theteenager had a stringy, pallid look about him, like a plant kept in the dark.†   (source)
  • Wendy stared back at him in stunned disbelief, her face pallid.†   (source)
  • The pallid man with the white hair was Walter.†   (source)
  • Dark blue veins could be seen through the pallid skin of his hands and face.†   (source)
  • His skin was pallid, with an undertone of grey.†   (source)
  • Each pallid leg, each steel-rimmed eye, is there as it was, as plain as bread.†   (source)
  • His complexion was pallid, as was the gunslinger's own.†   (source)
  • Before them, darkling against a pallid sky, the great mountains reared their threatening heads.†   (source)
  • Oh, I wouldn't worry about Chick Morrison," said the pallid man with the mustache.†   (source)
  • Blotches of pallid lichen clung to the surface of the tree.†   (source)
  • Pallid flesh showed under blue and yellow checked shorts.†   (source)
  • Her complexion was still too pallid, but in her cheeks Ian could see the first signs of returning color.†   (source)
  • He and Roger and Ad Worx itself were apt to be numbered among the fatalities no matter what they did; he could read it on Roger's round face, which had not looked so pallidly serious since he and Althea had lost their boy, Timothy, to the crib-death syndrome when the infant was only nine days old.†   (source)
  • The pallid light of the moon turned his skin a perfect white, like the sand, like the moon itself, and made his wet hair black as the ocean.†   (source)
  • The beam was dim by the time it reached the far wall, but the light was enough to illuminate the shape of a pallid and ghostly face, staring back at them through lifeless sockets.†   (source)
  • Although his hair and his skin are equally thin and pallid, his handshake is surprisingly firm; and despite his unfortunately small and pouting mouth — like a tadpole's, thinks Simon — his Roman nose indicates a strong character, his high-domed forehead a developed intellect, and his somewhat bulging eyes are bright and keen.†   (source)
  • Then she turned her face slightly to take a sip from her goblet and he saw, with a shock of recognition, a pallid, toadlike face and a pair of prominent, pouchy eyes.†   (source)
  • OK,' said Harry, walking up to Ron 10 get a better look at the glazed eyes and the pallid complexion, 'OK ...say that again with a straight face.†   (source)
  • The elf lay on the floor, panting and shivering, green mucus glis-tening around his snot, a bruise already blooming on his pallid forehead where he had struck himself, his eyes swollen and bloodshot and swimming in tears.†   (source)
  • Her face was pallid, her hair straggly.†   (source)
  • One glance at Betsie's pallid face and fragile form, and the matron waved her contemptuously back inside the barracks where the elderly and infirm spent the day sewing prison uniforms.†   (source)
  • Many pallid kids, and then, further down—all on her own — a wan dreadlocked girl with a filthy puppy and a cardboard sign so worn I couldn't read it.†   (source)
  • He looked like Macon, but taller and a little younger, with slick jet-black hair and the same pallid skin.†   (source)
  • Every six or seven days, the same two pallid casualty assistance officers enter the refectory, and four hundred faces go ashen from the effort of not turning to watch.†   (source)
  • He met an elf armored in imbricated scales like a dragon, with a bony crest upon his head, a line of spikes that ran down his back, and two pallid flames that ever flickered in the pits of his flared nostrils.†   (source)
  • She was not pretty; she looked simultaneously cross and sullen, with heavy brows and a long, pallid face.†   (source)
  • Hunched like his sister, he had a pallid, doughy face and tiny eyes, which fell at once on Alecto, sprawled motionless on the floor.†   (source)
  • His was the only perfectly clear image she retained from her whole childhood, and in order to describe him she did not need to consult the daguerreotype in the drawing room that showed him dressed as an explorer leaning on an old-fashioned double-barreled rifle with his right foot on the neck of a Malaysian tiger, the same triumphant position in which she had seen the Virgin standing between plaster clouds and pallid angels at the main altar, one foot on the vanquished devil.†   (source)
  • The man with the twisted face pointed and his closest companion, a podgy, pallid man, started forward, but a moment later they had relaxed into their previous state of inactivity, looking frustrated and disappointed.†   (source)
  • And he saw them in the clear green sunlit water, inches below the surface, reminding him horribly of the Inferi; a chorus of merpeople singing in a strange language he did not understand, their pallid faces rippling, their purplish hair flowing all around them.†   (source)
  • We found the attic, with boxes of old books and stored quilts and three empty trunks, and a broken harmonium, and Grandmother Adelia's headless dress form, a pallid, musty torso.†   (source)
  • You look absolutely pallid.†   (source)
  • He could see the V shape of the plow's wing blades, spewing more snow up onto the road's left-hand embankment like pallid, smoking exhaust.†   (source)
  • James whirled about: a second flash of light later, Snape was hanging upside-down in the air, his robes falling over his head to reveal skinny, pallid legs and a pair of greying underpants.†   (source)
  • But before he could utter a single curse or insult, Harry felt a great pain at the top of his head; he inhaled a lot of ash and, choking, found himself being dragged backwards through the flames, until with a horrible abruptness he was staring up into the wide, pallid face of Professor Umbridge who had dragged him backwards out of the fire by the hair and was now bending his neck back as far as it would go, as though she were going to slit his throat.†   (source)
  • The man beside the woman in the sarong had removed his foxhead and Jack saw that it was Horace Derwent, his pallid blond hair spilling across his forehead.†   (source)
  • Danny was pallid and worn out.†   (source)
  • My eyes were dark enough against my pallid skin that—if I were beautiful, and seen from a distance—I might even pass for a vampire now.†   (source)
  • There's no shade on the light, just a bare bulb overhead, which makes my face look pallid and ill, with circles under the eyes.†   (source)
  • "That is from the cold, my lord," said Hallyne, a pallid man with soft damp hands and an obsequious manner.†   (source)
  • Their faces seemed to swim above their all-but-invisible bodies like huge, pallid baseballs with eyes.†   (source)
  • The young woman before her was strong-boned, with the pallid complexion of an invalid, a mane of copper hair, and a dress so torn and filthy, it was impossible to determine what it might have looked like originally.†   (source)
  • But here, over the desert and the reeking marshes the deep blue sky of evening opened once more, and a few pallid stars appeared, like small white holes in the canopy above the crescent moon.†   (source)
  • One ear and part of his cheek had been cleaved off in some battle, but twenty stone of pallid white flesh remained.†   (source)
  • Melisandre's faithful: pallid ladies, shivering serving girls, Ser Axell and Ser Narbert and Ser Lambert, men-at-arms in iron mail and Thenns in bronze, even a few of Jon's black brothers.†   (source)
  • Hickock's uneven eyes turned toward a window in the visiting room; his face, puffy, pallid as a funeral lily, gleamed in the weak winter sunshine filtering through the bar-shrouded glass.†   (source)
  • There had been no more than five hours' darkness and that of a pallid, twilit quality which kept him wakeful and restless.†   (source)
  • Ernesto's pallid skin mottled with excitement, his tentative hands that quickly became assured under her encouragement, the way he laid his — downy head between her breasts and slept contentedly, like a well-fed baby.†   (source)
  • Her face was set to the east, and after a time a pallid line showed itself above the great bulk of mountains which in this quarter backed up the ramparts of the circling ridges about Watauga.†   (source)
  • I wiped absently at Walter's pallid face, listening more intently now, but they didn't speak of Jared again.†   (source)
  • Then, as my eyes focused on the motionless figure, seeing the utter stillness, the pallid skin, a rush of piercing hope rocked through me.†   (source)
  • Leeches clung to the inside of his arms and legs and dotted his pallid chest, long translucent things that turned a glistening pink as they fed.†   (source)
  • The centaur was tending to the pallid forms of those who had fallen to the Shadow-Born, including Falladay Finn.†   (source)
  • The gunslinger had read the failing of day in the soft mirror of Jake's cheek: Now faint rose; now milk-glass; now pallid silver; now the last dusk-glow touch of evening; now nothing.†   (source)
  • The storekeeper was a fat, pallid woman who moved with effort, but seemed indifferent to her own discomfort.†   (source)
  • Searching for something, she cautiously struck a match, and in the flaring up of its small flame got a glimpse of Mandy's face, open-mouthed, pallid, unbeautiful, against the tumbled pillow.†   (source)
  • We carry it furtively back up the hill and shove it through a grating in the pavement; it floats down there on the surface of the dark water, pallid and drowned-looking.†   (source)
  • I spend a long time over Van Eyck's The Arnolfini Marriage, going over the inadequate color print of it in my textbook with a magnifying glass; what fascinates me is not the two delicate, pallid, shoulderless hand-holding figures, but the pier glass on the wall behind them, which reflects in its convex surface not only their backs but two other people who aren't in the main picture at all.†   (source)
  • The gunslinger stood drunkenly, pallid as a ghost, eyes huge and swimming beneath his forehead, shirt smeared with the white dust of his final, lunging crawl.†   (source)
  • At the end of the platform, a pallid, plumpish man stood saying to a crying woman, "That's how it's always been in this world.†   (source)
  • "I think," said the pallid man with the mustache, his voice unexpectedly confident, "that we should now hear from Miss Taggart."†   (source)
  • "The rail of the Rio Norte Line," said the pallid man with the mustache, "is unmatched anywhere in the country and could not now be purchased at any price.†   (source)
  • "In my opinion," said a thin, pallid man with a neat mustache, "the Rio Norte Line seems to have become a financial burden which the company might not be able to carry-that is, not unless certain readjustments are made, which—" He did not finish, but glanced at Mr. Weatherby.†   (source)
  • A soot-flecking of black specks hung in the pallid sky above the valley — flocks of ravens following the deer herds.†   (source)
  • Seconds later, when he brushed past her in the little anteroom, Durrfeld clearly did not recognize Sophie—this pallid Polish woman in her stained prisoner's smock—but as he inadvertently touched her he did say "Bitter with instinctive politeness and in the same polished gentleman's tones she recalled from Cracow.†   (source)
  • I decided to take advantage of the weather to have a swim and get some sun on my pallid skin, so I went off a few hundred yards from the Eskimo camp ( modesty is the last of the civilized vices which a man sheds in the wilds ), stripped, swam, and then climbed a nearby ridge and lay down to sun-bathe.†   (source)
  • One morning in November, when Randy was breakfasting early and alone, Dan Gunn came downstairs smooth-shaven, his jaw looking oddly pallid in contrast to brown forehead, nose, cheekbones, and neck.†   (source)
  • Doña Isabella became pallid with fright.†   (source)
  • Little ridges of white cloud formed in the western sky and the sun became pallid.†   (source)
  • His pallid face would flame with joy and pride.†   (source)
  • Guy Doak gazed solemnly at Eugene, with a forked hand stroking his grave pallid face.†   (source)
  • Eugene turned his pallid face away, indefinitely.†   (source)
  • The boy—pallid, but proud of his trust—told the house-defiler that he must go.†   (source)
  • Pallidly, on restless feet, they smiled, plotting escape with slant-eyed stealth.†   (source)
  • We have no more to expose ourselves on the bare hedges to the wind and snow; no more to carry ourselves erect when the gale sweeps, to bear our burden upheld; or stay, unmurmuring, on those pallid noondays when the bird creeps close to the bough and the damp whitens the leaf.†   (source)
  • Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory.†   (source)
  • His limp collar and tired white face had a withered and pallid look above its red facings; but the impression was erased by his radiant black eyes.†   (source)
  • Conway responded, and observed an old or elderly Chinese, gray-haired, clean-shaven, and rather pallidly decorative in a silk embroidered gown.†   (source)
  • But, damn it, she was just so pallid and uninteresting and always the same, beside Scarlett's bright and changeable charm.†   (source)
  • I was that sun, who believed that he (after that evening in Judith's room) was not oblivious of me but only unconscious and receptive like the swamp freed pilgrim feeling earth and tasting sun and light again and aware of neither but only of darkness' and morass's lack—who did believe there was that magic in unkin blood which we call by the pallid name of love that could be, might be sun for him (though I the youngest, weakest) where Judith and Clytie both would cast no shadow; yes, I the youngest there yet potently without measured and measurable age since I alone of them could say, D furious mad old man, I hold no substance that will fit your dream but I can give you airy space and scop†   (source)
  • On a bank below the lawns, crocuses were planted, golden, pink, and mauve, but by this time they would be past their best, dropping and fading, like pallid snowdrops.†   (source)
  • The principal had a white face of waxen transparency, with deep flat cheeks like the Pentlands, a pallid nose, a trifle deeper in its color than his face, and a thin slightly-bowed mouth.†   (source)
  • He thought her brown face looked pallid and the skin sallow and that there were dark areas under her eyes.†   (source)
  • The churchyard was a pallid crescent of trampled and beaten earth, shaped and enclosed by undergrowth and trees.†   (source)
  • The Boss was dour as a teetotal-ing Scot, and the office force walked on tiptoe and girls suddenly burst out crying over their typewriters after they had been in to take dictation and state officials coming out of the inner room laid a handkerchief to the pallid brow with one hand and with the other groped across the long room under the painted eyes of all the gilt-framed dead governors.†   (source)
  • The freshly green foliage looked sickly, the dogwood pallid, and the flowering crab, so beautifully pink a moment ago, faded and dreary.†   (source)
  • You cannot love him as he should be loved and though he will no more feel this giving's weight than he would ever know its lack, yet there may come some moment in your married lives when he will find this atom's particle as you might find a cramped small pallid hidden shoot in a familiar flower bed and pause and say, "Where did this come from?"†   (source)
  • Mallinson had called him ugly, but Conway, who had lived in China, thought him a fairly passable specimen, though now, in the burnished circle of match flame, his pallid skin and gaping mouth were not pretty.†   (source)
  • The pallid light drowned out the stars, it lay like silence on the earth, it dripped through the leafy web of the young maples, printing the earth with swarming moths of elvish light.†   (source)
  • Day after day to the ache of his body was added the ache and shame of his spirit, but he hung on with a pallid smile across his lips, and envy and fear of their strength in his heart.†   (source)
  • But it was pleasant at dusk or in the cool summer nights, with Eliza or one of his daughters beside him, and a fragrant weed between his pallid lips, to hinge his long body into the back seat, and ride out into the fragrant countryside, or through the long dark streets of town.†   (source)
  • But, as the months passed, and the sturdy child's body of his infancy lengthened rapidly to some interior chemical expansion, and he became fragile, thin, pallid, but remarkably tall for his age, Eliza began to say: "That boy's big enough to do a little work."†   (source)
  • Perhaps the cold red light of some remembered winter's afternoon, waning pallidly over a playing-field, with all its mockery of Spring, while lights flared up smokily in houses, the rabble-rout of children dirtily went in to supper, and men came back to the dull but warm imprisonment of home, oil lamps (which he hated), and bedtime, clotted in him a hatred of the place which remained even when the sensations that caused it were forgotten.†   (source)
  • She touched the big, pallid flowers on their petals, then shivered.†   (source)
  • I felt a peculiar shrinking from those pallid bodies.†   (source)
  • Both had risen, and were gazing at one another with pallid faces.†   (source)
  • "Buck, will you take off my boots?" he asked, with a faint smile on his pallid face.†   (source)
  • Sweat-drops stood out on his pallid face.†   (source)
  • Muttering, cursing, pallid of face, Hawe climbed astride his horse.†   (source)
  • Some way out, the wash upon an irregular band of reef shone with a pallid light of its own.†   (source)
  • The colour faded and became strong like a changing glow of pallid brick red.†   (source)
  • As the green smoke arose, their faces flashed out pallid green, and faded again as it vanished.†   (source)
  • "Oh no, but maybe I better," attempted Mrs. Dawson, a tint on her pallid face.†   (source)
  • On Claggart's always pallid complexion, thick black blood was now oozing from nostril and ear.†   (source)
  • Lips very thin and highly-coloured, a line of scarlet on a pallid face.†   (source)
  • The moon drifted from behind the clouds and exposed the pallid face.†   (source)
  • It was very deep, and he walked among its rows as if in a grove of beech trees beside a pallid sea.†   (source)
  • She curled on the couch a pallid softness in the twilight, and fought herself, and lost the battle.†   (source)
  • The whole country was bleak and pallid under the snow.†   (source)
  • Beside him hung the portrait of his wife, a pallid, thin-lipped woman in black.†   (source)
  • You're not well!" he exclaimed; and she forced her lips into a pallid smile of reassurance.†   (source)
  • That was Smith's expression of fidelity, and Kells received it with a pallid, grateful smile.†   (source)
  • A phantom glow holds sway in piny woods along the crest of dunes and turns the pallid sand to snow.†   (source)
  • Strange hardships, I imagine — poor, emaciated, pallid wanderer?†   (source)
  • Jean Valjean lay there pallid and motionless.†   (source)
  • His frowning face was pallid and quivered.†   (source)
  • He sat still a long time, with pallid face and laboring heart.†   (source)
  • I can see that figure now—pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn!†   (source)
  • Bathsheba, pallid as a corpse on end, gazed back at him in the same wild way.†   (source)
  • One thing alone, however, threw a shade over the pallid brow of Felton.†   (source)
  • The pallid prominent personage almost died of fright.†   (source)
  • The flush passed from his brow, and gave way to the pallid hue of death.†   (source)
  • The second had a pallid and smiling countenance, with which the reader is already acquainted.†   (source)
  • He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a vivacious but sickly air.†   (source)
  • And more than all, I remembered a certain unconscious air of pallid—how shall I call it?†   (source)
  • Instantly all the indignations which had been dominating him and the spiritual dramas through which he had struggled became pallid and absurd before the ancient and overwhelming realities, the standard and traditional realities, of sickness and menacing death, the long night, and the thousand steadfast implications of married life.†   (source)
  • Out at the window a florid moon was peering over dark roofs, and in the distance the waters of a river glimmered pallidly.†   (source)
  • Dorian Gray lifted his golden head from the pillow, and with pallid face and tear-stained eyes looked at him, as he walked over to the deal painting-table that was set beneath the high curtained window.†   (source)
  • Joan found the bandit half propped up against a saddle with a damp and pallid face, but an altogether different look.†   (source)
  • At last only the dead tips of the fingernails remained, pallid and white, and the brown stain of some acid upon my fingers.†   (source)
  • "Mrs. Lynde, you don't think—you can't think Matthew is—is—" Anne could not say the dreadful word; she turned sick and pallid.†   (source)
  • It was at midnight, when the charms of bacteriology and toweling were becoming pallid, that outside the house sounded a whooping, wheezing motor horn, and in lumbered a ruddy fat man who was introduced as Mr. Schlemihl, president of the Cornbelt Insurance Company of Nautilus.†   (source)
  • Jammes yelled these words in a tone of unspeakable terror; and her finger pointed, among the crowd of dandies, to a face so pallid, so lugubrious and so ugly, with two such deep black cavities under the straddling eyebrows, that the death's head in question immediately scored a huge success.†   (source)
  • Lily had not been long in this pallid world without discovering that Mrs. Hatch was its most substantial figure.†   (source)
  • He was terrified by what he saw, especially by the limp way in which his hair clung to his pallid forehead.†   (source)
  • His face, too, had unbelievably changed—not in the regularity of feature that had been its chief charm, but in contour of cheek and vanishing of pallid hue and tragic line.†   (source)
  • It was with a feeling of personal pride that I could see a faint tinge of colour steal back into the pallid cheeks and lips.†   (source)
  • And, seeing upon the water, where it reflected the wall, a pallid smile responding to the smiling sky, I cried aloud in my enthusiasm, brandishing my furled umbrella: "Damn, damn, damn, damn!"†   (source)
  • It seemed to me that the pallid features of the butler turned a shade paler still as he listened to his master's question.†   (source)
  • They came in, strings of anaemic girls, with large fringes and pallid lips, who could not digest their bad, insufficient food; old ladies, fat and thin, aged prematurely by frequent confinements, with winter coughs; women with this, that, and the other, the matter with them.†   (source)
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