waxen

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Waxen white, his lips smiled their courteous greeting upon her, his tone was measured and cold as ever.

From A Prince of Sinners by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

Waxen statues with clothes and hair were displayed across the gates.

From Salammbo by Flaubert, Gustave

Waxen Almeria, who was to have gone out as she entered, received a shock of it, and stood for a moment transfixed.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various

When his first Years in mighty Order ran, And cradled Infancy bespoke the Man, Around his Lips the Waxen Artists hung, And drop'd ambrosial Dew upon his Tongue.

From Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) by Cobb, Samuel

Many are pen-and-ink drawings on vellum, exquisitely finished, of which the "Waxen Image" is one of the earliest and best examples; it is dated 1856.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various