Example Sentences
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The start, and the sudden lividness of the other’s countenance plainly visible in the moonlight, were answer enough.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram
Von Holtz’s pallor changed subtly from the pallor of fear to the awful lividness of rage.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 by Various
"Indeed!" said he; but this time the word was uttered in a faint voice, while a pallor that was almost lividness colored his dark features.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James
The lividness had almost gone off it, remaining only here and there on the temples, on the nose, and between the eyes, in party-coloured, uneven, serpentine spots.
From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert
The face is fearsome pale and of an immovable waxen lividness, in which the purple lips fall slightly apart.
From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce
