lividness
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The glare behind him emphasized the lividness of his pallid skin.
From The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss
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
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
The start, and the sudden lividness of the other’s countenance plainly visible in the moonlight, were answer enough.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford
It dropped from her powerless fingers as she finished; and she sank back in her chair with such a ghastly paleness, that it seemed absolutely like the lividness of death.
From The Midnight Queen by May Agnes Fleming
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