lividness

Example Sentences

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He raises his eyes and beholds only the lividness of the clouds.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

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

The assistants' faces were then given that spectral lividness that the imagination ascribes to phantoms.

From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Verne, Jules

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 Brown, Charles Brockden

Coombe's still countenance was so deadly in the slow lividness, which Mademoiselle saw began to manifest itself, that she caught his sleeve with a shaking hand.

From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson