lividness
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Then daylight came and the statue took on in succession the rosy lividness of the dawn and the gilded reflection of the sun.
From Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite by Pierre Lou?s
"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 Charles James Lever
The assistants' faces were then given that spectral lividness that the imagination ascribes to phantoms.
From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Jules Verne
Cy′anite, a mineral composed of alumina and silica, generally sky-blue; Cyanom′eter, an instrument for measuring the degrees of blueness of the sky or ocean; CyanÅ′sis, morbid lividness of the skin, blue jaundice.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
My sister's well-known and beloved features could not be concealed by convulsion or lividness.
From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown
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