"Pallid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... doctor, his face pallid and grieved, "you are wrong, you are wrong. Are you to get no kind of good out of this calamity? Is the chastisement to exasperate only? to make you more perverse, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine. Vol. XII, No. 33. December, 1873. • Various
... found that Fiske, his two seconds, Graham and Lowell, the young Middy, and a local surgeon had already arrived. We exchanged bows and salutes gloomily and the seconds gathered together, and began to talk in hoarse whispers. It was still very dark. The moon hung empty and pallid above the cold outline of the hills, and although the roosters were crowing cheerfully, the sun had not yet risen. In the hollows the mists lay like lakes, and every stone and rock was wet and shining as though it had ...
— Captain Macklin • Richard Harding Davis
... meeting also an interesting youth, an eager sailor, but who took sea trips for his health, and drove from some Royal Chateau to embark and freshen the colour in his delicate face, so pale with languor. We could not but feel and express a deep sympathy with one who loved the sea, but whose pallid looks were in such contrast to the rough brown hue and redundant health ...
— The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" • John MacGregor
... a man who had come up in the draft with me on the 4th, rolling around in the death agony, tossing his head loosely about in the wild pain of it, his pallid face a white mark in the muck underfoot. A burly German reached the spot and without hesitation plunged his saw-edged bayonet ...
— The Escape of a Princess Pat • George Pearson
... Aggie and they crept in, very subdued and pallid. Charlie Sands opened the letter ...
— More Tish • Mary Roberts Rinehart
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