Unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
1 There appeared a wanness in the night, and Helena felt inexpressibly dreary.
2 Helena wanted the day - wanness to be quite wiped off the west.
3 Such, then, is the cause of the wanness of my complexion.
4 To this was added a certain wanness and air of fatigue.
5 It was the last phase, the feebleness, the wanness , the inertia!
6 The ghastly little skull-cap showed forth its wanness rigidly.
7 Some wanness where, I think, thy foot may fall!
8 In her there always appears a terrible wanness , right upon the heels of a wonderful freshness.
9 A ghostly ray came through a crack between the logs and lit Alice's face with a pathetic wanness .
10 She had taken off her high, close neckwear, and the wanness of her throat showed above a collarless shirt-waist.
11 There was exertion about every move of his body, the wanness and effort of vanished vitality; he balanced himself carefully.
12 Her jealous shame at being disprized and notoriously neglected had given her wanness and bitterness, instead of warmth and sweetness.
13 At the name of Barto Rizzo, Laura's eyes widened, awakening a memory in Ammiani; and her face had a spectral wanness .
14 Miss Arden, looking back at her, noted how each day was helping to remove the pallor and wanness from that face.
15 A faint flush, appearing in Jack's cheeks, only emphasized his wanness and the whiteness of his neck and chin and forehead.
16 His countenance was haggard, and his complexion seemed to be a struggle between the wanness of care and the redness of intemperance.
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