lividness

Example Sentences

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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 Lou?s, Pierre

Pale and livid combs are as certain a sign of bad health in fowls, as the paleness or lividness of the lips is in human beings.

From Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. by Piper, Hugh

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

The face is fearsome pale and of an immovable waxen lividness, in which the purple lips fall slightly apart.

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce

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