pallor

• The Cuban knew well that a certain dirty pallor is always evident on the palms of the hands of even the blackest negroes The boy's reference to the "Citadel of the Black Emperor" showed that he was aware of this secret meeting of conspirators This was grave More, he was disguised This was graver still Was this boy, too, afraid of Haiti, that savage land at the doors of America; that abode where magic, superstition and even cannibalism still lurk in the forests; that barbarous republic where the white man is despised and hated, and the black man dominates? —  Plotting in Pirate Seas
• He had suffered and perhaps his wound was not alone responsible for his pallor or the hurt look in his eyes. —  Blacksheep! Blacksheep!
• The good ladies reported afterwards that "his pallor was terrible to see, and his legs seemed to give way underneath him." —  The Idiot
• Her face was thin and of a transparent pallor, her eyes great pools of wistfulness amid the shadows which her illness had set about them I do wish I could be dead!" —  The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series
• She was of a ghastly pallor, her limbs shook and trembled under her as she stepped forth, and there was a wild horror in her staring eyes. —  The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series

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