pallid

• Almost opposite was a face--pallid, with parted lips and fixed eyes--gazing at me. —  Wilfrid Cumbermede
• That we have been able to put it before you in more palatable form, and to win for it the approval of such a connoisseur as Sir John Oglethorpe, is largely owing to the judicious use of that Italian terror--more dire to many English than paper-money or brigands--garlic 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 I fear the vein of incongruity in our discourse, lately noted by Van der Roet, is not quite exhausted," said Sir John. —  The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes
• Their faces were pallid, their eyes bloodshot, their flesh a-quiver. —  The Rose in the Ring
• Her heart burned within her; she was pallid, and her eyes shone fiercely. —  The Whirlpool
• The hands hung limp: his face was pallid, and the lips blue, as with cold. —  Stories Worth Rereading

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