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It mixed with the tears that stained her pallid face and soaked her through to the bones.
The dark atmosphere made it hard for me to see clearly, but I saw his pallid face under his dark hood.
I could see, even in the dim light of my fading lamp, that his skin was pasty and pallid, his eyes dark and cloudy.
She glimpsed her mother lying feebly on a divan with a wrinkled, pallid face.
From the corner of his mouth came a slow, thin trickle of bright red, dripping slowly down his pallid face like rain down a windowpane.
She felt tears well up in her eyes and when she blinked they finally escaped to roll down her pallid face.
Her aged face was pallid, her chest failed to move under her ragged brown garments.
He was breathing hard, as if he had been running, and his pallid face shone bright with sweat.
Her eyes were dull with sorrow and her cheeks would have been deathly pallid if not for the rogue she heavily slathered onto her cheeks.
A pinched smile that looked painful instead of cheerful worked across mom's pallid face.
He nodded and smiled, lifting his palm to brush away some stray pieces of hair from her pallid face.
But despite all her highly charged sexuality, she's a rather pallid character with predictable sensibilities.
He mistakenly characterizes spirituality as a pallid Platonic flight from the world or some kind of interiorized religious stirrings.
Perhaps aware that his male characters were pallid, he created a sub-plot featuring a romantic highwayman.
It just sat there on the plate, stolid, pallid, and completely lacking in anything even approaching meal appeal.
He is a bland, pallid individual who seems to have nothing but the interests and passions of his dead relatives to guide him through life.
Character designs are rather pallid and dull, completely uninteresting in style or drawn without any particular flare.
Thus the secondary characters seem pallid in contrast to what we know of their real-life models.
Her anemic, monochromatic playing and pallid, unimaginative way with a phrase don't help matters.
But there's something about politics that, for most MPs, makes the civilian lifestyle pallid, tedious and even a bit scary.
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Examples from Classical Literature
My eye glanced round the apartment, and lighted on the pinched features and pallid visage of Captain gabion.
Their thin and pallid faces did not prepossess me in favour of the life they were leading.
He is an undersized, paunchy East German, with hair the color of wet hay, and an extremely pallid complexion.
Tendrils projected from all parts of it, pallid and twisting lengths that writhed slowly with snakelike life.
Not more than forty, with a clear, pallid skin that had never known the sun, he was paunched and weak-legged.
Albine, too, was a large rose, a pallid rose that had opened since the morning.
His fragile form was almost feminine in its proportions, but an eagle eye calmly reposed in his pallid and emaciate countenance.
In these specimens the same color pattern obtains as in the pallid individuals, but the pigmentation is dense.
He was of medium height, of slight build, with a pallid countenance, and a weakish drawling voice.
Spirochet pallid have been found in the degenerated media and in small gummata which were situated beneath the intima.
His fingers crooked, his body in a bow, his wizen, cruel face pallid in the ghostly light.
His drawing was good, but his painting lacked force, and he was too pallid in flesh color.
The silence was profound, and the lamps burned with motionless, pallid flames.
The gills are rotundate-free, close, narrow, whitish or pallid.
His pallid countenance was writhen with anguish, and his limbs shook.
She had sacrificed her bloom to her babies, and was pallid and anaemic.
He stared in consternation at the pallid oval that stood for her face.
They all sat down in the little pavilion to watch an autumn sunset of deep red fire and pallid gold.
Tom mixed a dose of the spirits which he carried with him, and this, forced between the pallid lips of the scientist, revived him.
The cave was filled from wall to wall with pallid, eyeless animals.
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