lividness
Example Sentences
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The glare behind him emphasized the lividness of his pallid skin.
From The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss
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
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 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
