596 examples of pallid in sentences

Her face seemed strangely pallid and her hands were cold.

When the cloth was raised, the collapsed and pallid features of one in whom life was unequivocally extinct were exposed to view.

Sigismund gazed long at the pallid lineaments.

The judge regarded the sweet pallid face of the trembling girl with an interest he had seldom felt for any who had come before him in the discharge of his unbending duties.

She looked up from the teacups, fixing her pallid eyes on mine.

At every turn some pallid ghost With haggard features seems to rise To join the long-drawn, murdered host That moves with sad, averted eyes, Like victims to a sacrifice, To where the Via Sacra lies.

Gleamed Napoleon's mournful eyes, Smouldering flames of sacrifice; Then his pallid, classic face Vanished ghostlike into space, And a dreary sense of woe Settled over Fontainebleau.

I know promising gymnasts whose pallid complexions show that their blood is not worthy of their muscle, and they will break down.

The grand bracing air of the Cotswold Hills is a tonic which drives dull care away from these Gloucestershire people; and when it is remembered that they enjoy the freedom of Lord Bathurst's beautiful park, that the neighbourhood is, in spite of agricultural depression, well off in this world's goods, it is not surprising that the pallid cheeks and drooping figures to be met with in most of our towns are conspicuous by their absence here.

The youth of the other aspect is commonly slender,his face is smooth, and apt to be pallid,his features are regular and of a certain delicacy,his eye is bright and quick,his lips play over the thought he utters as a pianist's fingers dance over their music,and his whole air, though it may be timid, and even awkward, has nothing clownish.

After a painful attempt to swallow, he succeeded; his eyelids began tremulously to move, and the colour to return to his pallid cheeks.

"No, Ma'am;it is too bad, it is too bad, it is too"Here her utterance became choked, her cheeks pallid as death, and her form wilted and fell like a flower before the mower's scythe.

Life, full, red-blooded, abounding, luxuriant, riotous, never had animated this pallid form, or else had long years since abandoned it.

Thou wast there; thy icy breath was upon him; thy agonizing throes were depicted on his pallid countenance; his expansive chest heaved laboriously; his shortening breath came up convulsively, and his eyes seemed starting from their sockets.

She, observing him in the glass, saw that he was looking at her with that yearning for sympathy which is always at its strongest in a man in the mood that was his at sight of those waves and showers of soft black hair on the pallid whiteness of her shoulders.

And o'er the fairest troop of captured joys Breathes pallid pestilence.

18 In the corner opposite my own seat was a thin pallid young man, also a little drunk, but with an excited brain in which a multitude of strange and tragic thoughts chased each other.

He licked the pallid face, the cold hands, and placed a gentle paw upon the man's breast, scratching softly to see if he could not gain some response.

The blood seemed to desert her heart; still she did not faint; she clung to Lady Annabel, pallid and shivering.

His countenance was very pallid, so colourless indeed that its aspect was almost unearthly; but his large blue eyes, that were deeply set in his majestic brow, still glittered with fire, and their expression alone gave life to a visage, which, though singularly beautiful in its outline, from its faded and attenuated character seemed rather the countenance of a corpse than of a breathing being.

Then suddenly "The sanguine sunrise, with his meteor eyes," flamed over the eastern ridges, and in a flood of glory the soft shadows and pallid lights of the dawn became merged in the brilliance of a Kashmir autumn day.

His face was sunk and pallid, his breathing uneasy, and his eyes were closed.

"What's he afraid of?" "What have you been doing to him?" inquired Captain Brisket, turning to the pallid Mr. Chalk.

O'er Thames' dull stream, Whose sluggish waves a wealthy burden bear From every port and clime, the pallid glare Of early sun-light spreads.

Another gleam of joy and impudence shot across the pallid face.

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