lividness

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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

The lividness had almost gone off it, remaining only here and there on the temples, on the nose, and between the eyes, in party-coloured, uneven, serpentine spots.

From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert