Pallor

Examples

• Beautiful in pallor. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Hence his pallor and nervousness--his sleepless night and agitation in the morning. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mrs. Bulstrode was a feminine smaller edition of her brother, and had none of her husband's low-toned pallor. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Even in this darkness he could see the heaped pallor of old white flowers at his feet. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She was in person full-limbed and somewhat heavy; without ruddiness, as without pallor; and soft to the touch as a cloud. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They then made out the faintest pallor of his face. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But for his pallor and feebleness, Bulstrode would have called the change in him entirely mental. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Endurance and despair, equanimity and gloom, the tints of health and the pallor of death, mingled weirdly in his face. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They are brought to a certain point of dilapidation; they are reduced to pallor, debility, and emaciation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The nocturnal visitor was a young man, frail and thin, with a black moustache, which intensified the deadly pallor of his face. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Below, on the water, lanterns were coming alight, faint ghosts of warm flame floating in the pallor of the first twilight. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He spun round with a scream and fell upon his back, his hideous red face turning suddenly to a dreadful mottled pallor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• She was rather above the middle height, slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against the absolute pallor of her skin. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Under her hat-brim he saw the pallor of her profile, and a slight tremor of the nostril above her resolutely steadied lips. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• She was most impressed, however, by the extreme pallor of his face and by the nervousness of his manner. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

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