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Meanings of pallid in English

(Of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble.

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Examples for "pale"
1
It was morning; dawn was old; and pale and grey and unhappy.
Don Rodriguez; Chronicles of Shadow Valley
2
He had gone quite pale and looked much older than his age.
The Clown
3
The sexton turned pale; the period named was so nearly the true.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction
4
Very pale, of course, as the bleaching of the water accomplishes that.
Stonewielder
5
It lights the ruins and it is pale day in the desert.
Foes
1
The effect of the sudden presence in the sick-room was most marked.
Barriers Burned Away
2
By personal contact of the sick with the well, especially in kissing.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools
3
The sick were healed in answer to his prayer of simple faith.
The Deacon of Dobbinsville / A Story Based on Actual Happenings
4
He took particular interest in the sick, crippled and poorly nourished children.
`Abdu'l-Bahá in London
5
Many were sick; more were discontented; and all longed wearily for land.
Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back ...
1
However, South Korean battery expert and professor Park Chul-wan was more optimistic.
Reuters
2
It was misting; the streets gleamed wet and wan beneath the lamps.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
3
Tears blinded her eyes; her face was wan; her mien terribly haggard.
The Woman Who Did
4
The whole forest world was wan and ghostly in the mysterious light.
The Snowshoe Trail
5
Isabelle looked wan and pale, and desperately unhappy, and with good reason.
Jewels
Usage of pallid in English
1
People look careworn to me in America; they are spare and pallid.
Children of the Market Place
2
The moon drifted from behind the clouds and exposed the pallid face.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
3
The pallid moonlight shone on the upturned faces of the innumerable dead.
Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins. / Final Memoir...
4
Then the pallid lips trembled and unclosed with the faintly uttered inquiry:
Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
5
A long line of flame flared up crimson in the pallid dawn.
Army Boys in the French Trenches; Or, Hand to Hand Fighting with...
6
The return of economic growth, even at pallid levels, lifted their spirits.
The Guardian
7
Under the mustering shadows, the pallid river winds slowly to the sea.
Saint Augustin
8
He is completely changed; his cheeks are pallid and his eyes dim.
Mohammed Ali and His House
9
Surely not from the lips of this pallid thing near the window.
Her Weight in Gold
10
A pallid haze breathes wanly on the surface of the impassive sky.
The Dragon Painter
11
The morning was breaking now, and the world looked pallid and dreary.
The Late Miss Hollingford
12
The captain of the Adamant, pallid with fury, stood upon the poop.
The Great War Syndicate
13
The pallid mask was pinched, and it wore a look of torment.
The Paternoster Ruby
14
The thing's body billowed up into a mass of blurry pallid flesh.
Spellwright
15
Wrinkles had formed in her superabundant flesh, now grown pallid and flabby.
The Two Brothers
16
And a whole world trembles in the power of these pallid things!
The subtle knife
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