Pallid

Examples

• His face was pallid and even haggard. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Any private hours in her day were usually spent in her blue-green boudoir, and she had come to be very fond of its pallid quaintness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• When the Demarch ended, he raised his head with a bitter smile on his pallid face, and flung out his hand threateningly towards the speaker. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• In the mean time we were joined by Clara, whose pallid cheek and scared look shewed the deep impression grief had made on her young mind. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Lily had not been long in this pallid world without discovering that Mrs. Hatch was its most substantial figure. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Blue evening had fallen over the cradle of snow and over the great pallid slopes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• A very different Holmes, this active, alert man, from the introspective and pallid dreamer of Baker Street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Ursula had caught sight of the big, pallid, mystic letters 'OSTEND,' standing in the darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The heaven being spread with this pallid screen and the earth with the darkest vegetation, their meeting-line at the horizon was clearly marked. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Strange hardships, I imagine--poor, emaciated, pallid wanderer? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The memories which made this resource utterly hopeless were a new current that shook Dorothea out of her pallid immobility. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And he saw her eyes black as night in her pallid face, she looked almost unearthly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Raymond had recovered from the gaunt and pallid looks of fever. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The pallid Eustacia said nothing. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Very well, said the Demarch, with a cynical smile, which but ill became his pallid face; I will put you to the teSt Call in every one. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The Rector turned suddenly round and found himself face to face with Crispin, whose countenance was as pallid as his own. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He thought her brown face looked pallid and the skin sallow and that there were dark areas under her eyes. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Pallid cheeks and blue lips are visible evidence of the too frequent use of headache powders. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• She strayed out, pallid and preyed-upon like a ghost, like one attacked by the tomb-influences which dog us. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Friend and foe stood alike pallid with fear, as the ground began to shake convulsively, and the whole host looked as though turned into stone. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But he was not absolutely certain that the woman was his mother till he stooped and beheld her face, pallid, and with closed eyes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Weak, and thin, and pallid, he awoke at last from what seemed to have been a long and troubled dream. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• All was white, icy, pallid, save for the scoring of black rocks that jutted like roots sometimes, and sometimes were in naked faces. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Strange words like these from pallid lips pierce a loving listener's heart more poignantly than steel. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The flush passed from his brow, and gave way to the pallid hue of death. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

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