lividness

Example Sentences

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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

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

"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

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