lividness
Example Sentences
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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 Charles Brockden Brown
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
Von Holtz’s pallor changed subtly from the pallor of fear to the awful lividness of rage.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 by Various
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 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
