Both Uses of
pallid
in
In Cold Blood
- 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.†
Chpt 1 *
- 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.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
abnormally pale (lacking healthy skin color); or anything that lacks energy or liveliness