pallid

• “When it becomes "civilized" it becomes anæmic, and crawls feebly in pallid mauves and greens, with long spindle stalks that lack vitality to throw out more than one or two atrophied leaves.”

  High Albania

• “Unlike all other Dolomites that we have yet seen, the Croda Rossa, instead of being grey and pallid, is of a gloomy brownish and purplish hue, like the mountain known as "Black Stairs," near Enniscorthy, in Ireland.”

  Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys

• “And in the Mississippi-Missouri River basin the full species called the pallid sturgeon and the shovelnose sturgeon are indistinguishable by genetic analysis but have obvious morphological differences.”

  Simon & Schuster: Trout and Salmon of North America

• “The quantity used was infinitesimal," said Mrs. Sinclair, "but it seems to have been enough to subdue what I once heard Sir John describe as the pallid solidity of the innocent calf.”

  The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes

• “There is still another variety, called the pallid horned lark, which spends the winter in Colorado, then hies himself farther north in summer to rear his brood.”

  Birds of the Rockies

• “And as you continue, you perceive what a serious misjudgment 'pallid' is.”

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• “Why does the poet call the bust of Pallas "pallid"?”

  Elson Grammar School Literature v4

• “I thought he looked kind of pallid, but it might have been only on account of the cigarette smoke.”

  The House of Torchy

• “Do you think it is anything after all but a kind of pallid, unreal, water-colour exhibition, a row of blurs of faintly coloured portraits of yourself, spread on space?”

  The Lost Art of Reading

• “Though that's all a kind of pallid-faced, blue-tinted early evening sadness sort of thing.”

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