lividness

Example Sentences

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My sister's well-known and beloved features could not be concealed by convulsion or lividness.

From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Brown, Charles Brockden

He raises his eyes and beholds only the lividness of the clouds.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

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 Piper, Hugh

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

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce

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