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
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
The glare behind him emphasized the lividness of his pallid skin.
From The League of the Leopard by Bindloss, Harold
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
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
