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 Paul Stahr
The glare behind him emphasized the lividness of his pallid skin.
From The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss
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
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 Pierre Lou?s
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 Bernard Guilbert Guerney
