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  • noun Plural form of pallor.

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Examples

  • [34] It comes upon them magnified by a thousand lies, blanched by a thousand pallors, it gathers head from

    Cyropaedia 2007

  • Given our respective pallors its not a big deal and we're unlikely to make a federal case out of it.

    When divas attack. Ann Althouse 2006

  • Again the spirit, if there is fear, is perturbed and made cold, generates tremors and terrors and pallors in the body.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • The late roses in the garden loomed spikily on overgrown stems, half their leaves shed, ghostly floating pallors in the dimness.

    The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987

  • The late roses in the garden loomed spikily on overgrown stems, half their leaves shed, ghostly floating pallors in the dimness.

    The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987

  • Twin pallors swayed gently, articulated like strange fish Cadfael had once seen drawn in a traveller's book.

    The Raven In The Foregate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

  • Nothing was to be seen but the agitated tremor of certain pallors within the dark frame, that might have been faces and hands, faces pressed despairingly cheek to cheek, hands embracing and caressing.

    The Sanctuary Sparrow Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1983

  • So many severed hands moving and acting with a life of their own, the only pallors in the enfolding dimness.

    The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

  • So many severed hands moving and acting with a life of their own, the only pallors in the enfolding dimness.

    The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

  • Night and a crescent moon had wrought their magic, and the garden was a mystery of velvet dusks and ivory pallors.

    The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley

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