lividness

Example Sentences

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She saw the face pale to lividness and the lips stiffen, but except for that, the man made no movement, and for some ten seconds he did not speak.

From The Tyranny of Weakness by Stahr, Paul

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

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

He still stands under the wintry tree, white to lividness; drops of cold sweat stand on his brows; and his fine nostrils dilate and contract, dilate and contract, in an agony of anger and shame.

From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda

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