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Entrance to such a club as this requires a certain pallidness, an achromasia, a terrific effeteness peculiar to the very high-born undead.

From Slate • Aug. 5, 2014

The words were no sooner uttered than every countenance assumed the pallidness of death: and every right hand was raised in the act of blessing the person, and crossing the forehead.

From Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William

He was powerfully moved; his countenance changed from its usual pallidness to strong suffusion; his hands rather tossed than waved in the air.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various

Whereas, in the Pacific, all instances of the sort, previously corning under my notice, had been marked by patches of greenish light, unattended with any pallidness of sea.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman

It stood against the darkness and hung out a dim complexion of light, or rather of pallidness, that was not light—not to be described by the pen.

From The Frozen Pirate by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)