2 Words to use with peaking

His spirits began to fail him, and his small, puny, peaking daughter did not comfort him much.

And, I suppose, if I was just a little more effeminate and pale, with a nice retreating under-jaw and a drooping lip, and a meek, peaking simper, like your starved Romish saints, I should be "so spiritual!"

2 Words to use with  peaking