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The face is fearsome pale and of an immovable waxen lividness, in which the purple lips fall slightly apart.

From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker

Pale and livid combs are as certain a sign of bad health in fowls, as the paleness or lividness of the lips is in human beings.

From Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. by Hugh Piper

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 Rhoda Broughton

The assistants' faces were then given that spectral lividness that the imagination ascribes to phantoms.

From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Jules Verne

Cy′anite, a mineral composed of alumina and silica, generally sky-blue; Cyanom′eter, an instrument for measuring the degrees of blueness of the sky or ocean; Cyanō′sis, morbid lividness of the skin, blue jaundice.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various




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