lividness

Example Sentences

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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 start, and the sudden lividness of the other’s countenance plainly visible in the moonlight, were answer enough.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram

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 glare behind him emphasized the lividness of his pallid skin.

From The League of the Leopard by Bindloss, Harold

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