"Paleness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... among the modern Greeks that Tillemont can discover his appellation of Chlorus. Any remarkable degree of paleness seems inconsistent with the rubor mentioned in Panegyric, ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon
... backward, I could see practically nothing, for what little light came in through the opening was swallowed by the first few yards. There was a suspicion of paleness in the gloom behind, and the occasional suggestion of an outline ...
— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy
... skill. He could not tell whether the weapon had touched any vital part. An intermittent jet of scarlet blood flowed from it; the patient's paleness and weakness showed that he was seriously injured. The Major washed the wound first with fresh water and then closed the orifice; after this he put on a thick pad of lint, and then folds of scraped linen held firmly in place with a bandage. He succeeded in stopping the hemorrhage. Mulrady was ...
— In Search of the Castaways • Jules Verne
... flowers on the pleasant banks of the Sciota, would it not have brought paleness to her cheek to have whispered her that not many years would pass over her, before she would be far away from the scenes ...
— Dahcotah - Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling • Mary Eastman
... fuel. In a moment the flames began a heartsome sound, and the scarlet rays went climbing and racing over the twigs. There was a fragrant warmth, a brightness, but it showed the wan, brown face, almost ashen color from paleness, ...
— A Little Girl in Old Detroit • Amanda Minnie Douglas
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