pallidness

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Entrance to such a club as this requires a certain pallidness, an achromasia, a terrific effeteness peculiar to the very high-born undead.

From Slate • Aug. 5, 2014

I had not observed any particular appearance of health in the females of the country through which I had passed; on the contrary, I had been disappointed in their general pallidness and look of debility.

From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by Bryant, William Cullen

His co-voyageur was without curiosity; the former pallidness and silentness resumed their dominion over him, and the lesser gentleman settled moodily back to his newspaper.

From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by Townsend, George Alfred

Whereas, in the Pacific, all instances of the sort, previously corning under my notice, had been marked by patches of greenish light, unattended with any pallidness of sea.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman

Five shillings each to watch the burning blush of shame chasing pallidness from poverty's wan cheek!

From The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John