lividness

Example Sentences

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It dropped from her powerless fingers as she finished; and she sank back in her chair with such a ghastly paleness, that it seemed absolutely like the lividness of death.

From The Midnight Queen by Fleming, May Agnes

"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

My acquaintance with wounds would have taught me to regard sunken muscles, lividness, and cessation of the pulse, as mere indications of a swoon, and not as tokens of death.

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden

A rapid flowed into the head of it, and the lines of froth shone with a strange lividness.

From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold

He still stands under the wintry tree, white to lividness; drops of cold sweat stand on his brows; and his fine nostrils dilate and contract, dilate and contract, in an agony of anger and shame.

From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda