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    paleness


    1. on the almost mineral paleness of her skin


    2. The exquisite paleness of it, frosted by the merest hint of freckles scattered across her chest like tiny flakes of gold


    3. Her paleness went all of the way to white at this and sat back, trying to hatch a way out of this, no doubt


    4. How could I have ever thought he was human? He looked like a man, but there was a difference to him, not just in the paleness of his skin and the intensity of his eyes


    5. Another legend which had turned out to be a lie and, now she looked at Corannan, she saw the tell-tale paleness of the White Lands folk and a hint of the Marshlands in her brown, gentle eyes


    6. the milky paleness of her skin


    7. As Henry pulled the string attached to the lone light bulb in the room, a yellow flash cracked across the room and the paleness was shattered


    8. She had just begun when Amaranta noticed that Remedios the Beauty was covered all over by an intense paleness


    9. No, that was just dirt; underneath the grime, it was evident that Fishmael was almost albino in his paleness, having shunned smuglight for so long


    10. ” He made pitiful efforts to appear gay, pleasant, talkative, but it was enough to see his sweat and paleness to know that his heart was not in it

    11. When he returned to his position rather ungracefully upon realizing the failure of his covert procedure, he noticed the sudden paleness to Preacher Cooper’s face and wondered if the witness, as his involuntary reactions suggested, was actually petrified of what was contained in the note


    12. Mister Alvaro fled, the paleness in his face still bright and revealing


    13. Tones of relief and strength swirled with the paleness of anxiety and fear


    14. His mouth was pretty sexy as well, his full lips accentuated by the paleness of his smooth skin


    15. He had the same paleness, beauty and was more


    16. Candy noticed the paleness of her lover and best 120


    17. the paleness of her face increased and it seemed like her emaciated cheeks grew thinner


    18. Most likely it was my skin tone, so dusky next to Celia's paleness, and the fact I looked nothing at all like either of the people in the pictures he held


    19. shining under the neon lights with a menacing paleness


    20. expression and the paleness of her skin

    21. If you have a deficiency in vitamin B12, you will have the following symptoms: numbness and tingling of the hands and feet, paleness, shortness of breath, chronic fatigue, a sore mouth and tongue, and mental confusion


    22. My eyes are so bloodshot, and the reddish-purple under my eyes is even more emphasized by the intense paleness of my skin


    23. He released it and swallowed, red replacing the paleness of his face


    24. With the look fixed upon him, in her paleness and wildness,


    25. That's what betrays him! Another time he will be carried away by his playful wit into making fun of the man who suspects him, he will turn pale as it were on purpose to mislead, but his paleness will be _too natural_, too much like the real thing, again he has given us an idea! Though his questioner may be deceived at first, he will think differently next day if he is not a fool, and, of course, it is like that at every step! He puts himself forward where he is not wanted, speaks continually when he ought to keep silent, brings in all sorts of allegorical allusions, he-he! Comes and asks why didn't you take me long ago? he-he-he! And that can happen, you know, with the cleverest man, the psychologist, the literary man


    26. Trembling and bewildered, she held me fast, but the horror gradually passed from her countenance; its paleness gave place to a glow of shame


    27. Then the paleness of her face---its haggard aspect having vanished as she recovered flesh---and the peculiar expression arising from her mental state, though painfully suggestive of their causes, added to the touching interest which she awakened; and---invariably to me, I know, and to any person who saw her, I should think---refuted more tangible proofs of convalescence, and stamped her as one doomed to decay


    28. Is not this a way which you have with the fair: one has a snub nose, and you praise his charming face; the hook-nose of another has, you say, a royal look; while he who is neither snub nor hooked has the grace of regularity: the dark visage is manly, the fair are children of the gods; and as to the sweet 'honey pale,' as they are called, what is the very name but the invention of a lover who talks in diminutives, and is not averse to paleness if appearing on the cheek of youth? In a word, there is no excuse which you will not make, and nothing which you will not say, in order not to lose a single flower that blooms in the spring-time of youth


    29. Lockwood, I cannot express what a terrible start I got by the momentary view! Those deep black eyes! That smile, and ghastly paleness! It appeared to me, not Mr


    30. heart; even the languor and paleness of his face, in which the momentary

    31. Thomas, not wanting to meet their stares, concentrated on the girl; despite her paleness, she was really pretty


    32. Fernand's paleness appeared to have communicated itself to Danglars


    33. He turned and beheld the speaker, whose color had changed to a deadly paleness, and whose lips quivered, gazing after him, with an expression of interest which immediately recalled him to her side


    34. Her bloom gave place to the paleness of death; her soft and melting eyes grew hard, and seemed contracting with horror; while those hands, which she had raised, clasped in each other, toward heaven, dropped in horizontal lines before her, the fingers pointed forward in convulsed motion


    35. Although of a paleness that was almost livid, this man had a remarkably handsome face; his eyes were penetrating and sparkling; his nose, quite straight, and projecting direct from the brow, was of the pure Greek type, while his teeth, as white as pearls, were set off to admiration by the black mustache that encircled them


    36. Oh, he is the exact personification of what I have been led to expect! The coal-black hair, large bright, glittering eyes, in which a wild, unearthly fire seems burning,—the same ghastly paleness


    37. It is a bad sign; a quiet conscience does not occasion such paleness in the cheeks, and such fever in the hands of a man


    38. How often did he muse over it and pronounce the name of a dear friend—a friend lost to him forever; and on his death-bed, when the near approach of eternity seemed to have illumined his mind with supernatural light, this thought, which had until then been but a doubt, became a conviction, and his last words were, 'Maximilian, it was Edmond Dantes!'" At these words the count's paleness, which had for some time been increasing, became alarming; he could not speak; he looked at his watch like a man who has forgotten the hour, said a few hurried words to Madame Herbault, and pressing the hands of Emmanuel and Maximilian,—"Madame," said he, "I trust you will allow me to visit you occasionally; I value your friendship, and feel grateful to you for your welcome, for this is the first time for many years that I have thus yielded to my feelings;" and he hastily quitted the apartment


    39. When he asked what should such fellows as he do crawling between earth and heaven, he was encouraged with loud cries of "Hear, hear!" When he appeared with his stocking disordered (its disorder expressed, according to usage, by one very neat fold in the top, which I suppose to be always got up with a flat iron), a conversation took place in the gallery respecting the paleness of his leg, and whether it was occasioned by the turn the ghost had given him


    40. Her wide-open eyes appeared unnaturally large and brilliant, in contrast with the almost death-like paleness of her face, and there was a look of fear in them, as she waited and listened for the sound of Easton's footsteps

    41. "It is a frightful story, count," said Albert, terrified at the paleness of Haidee's countenance,


    42. The first thing to see, looking away over the water, was a kind of dull line—that was the woods on t'other side; you couldn't make nothing else out; then a pale place in the sky; then more paleness spreading around; then the river softened up away off, and warn't black any more, but gray; you could see little dark spots drifting along ever so far away—trading scows, and such things; and long black streaks—rafts; sometimes you could hear a sweep screaking; or jumbled up voices, it was so still, and sounds come so far; and by and by you could see a streak on the water which you know by the look of the streak that there's a snag there in a swift current which breaks on it and makes that streak look that


    43. The count was dressed in black and with his habitual simplicity; his white waistcoat displayed his expansive noble chest and his black stock was singularly noticeable because of its contrast with the deadly paleness of his face


    44. By those best acquainted with his habits, the paleness of the young minister's cheek was accounted for by his too earnest devotion to study, his scrupulous fulfilment of parochial duty, and, more than all, by the fasts and vigils of which he made a frequent practice, in order to keep the grossness of this earthly state from clogging and obscuring his spiritual lamp


    45. His form grew emaciated; his voice, though still rich and sweet, had a certain melancholy prophecy of decay in it; he was often observed, on any slight alarm or other sudden accident, to put his hand over his heart, with first a flush and then a paleness, indicative of pain


    46. Then he claps his hands, as if ready for action, but the paleness of his face suggests otherwise


    47. Her complexion, fair as it was, appeared yet more fair, from the effect of two black eyes, the brilliancy of which gave her face more vivacity than belonged to the colour of it, which was only defended from paleness, by a sweetly pleasing blush in her cheeks, that grew fainter and fainter, till at length it died away insensibly into the overbearing white


    48. She was horrified at her paleness, as she glanced into the looking-glass


    49. The band of silver paleness along the east horizon made even the distant parts of the Great Plain appear dark and near; and the whole enormous landscape bore that impress of reserve, taciturnity, and hesitation which is usual just before day


    50. He had that withered sort of paleness which will sometimes come on young faces, and his hand was very cold when she shook it




















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    Synonyms for "paleness"

    paleness pallidity blondness fairness achromasia lividity lividness luridness pallidness pallor wanness

    "paleness" definitions

    unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)


    the property of having a naturally light complexion


    being deficient in color