The body is lying there motionless and cold amid its brethren, who are amazed at the sleep which they cannot break, at the livid pallor and the stiffness of the limbs.
A dusky, scarlet fire burned through the pallor of her face; but her eyes never quailed, and the torrent of her eloquence returned under the pangs of shame that were beaten back under the noble instincts of her love.
The color was fast passing from her lips, and a mortal pallor settling there in the stead of that rich, bright hue, once warm as the scarlet heart of the pomegranate.
She saw the blood forsake the bronzed fairness of his face, and leave the dusky pallor there.
So he rattled on in his eager, simple way, utterly unconscious of the pallor of her face, with its look of astonishment and dread.
I will bleed forever within my breast where none can see, and all will wonder at my pallor and my weakness that have no outward cause.
The black velvet cap he wore and his long dark-brown hair contrasted with the pallor of his thin face.
The pallor of the assistant's face so close arrested his words a moment.
The pallor of that beautiful face, as it turned so imploringly upon them, was appeal enough.
Still, she had, in her reckless inadvertency, called her daughter, and though the very idea drove the blood to his heart, it was only by a cold pallor that the shock this one word had given to him was visible.
Her proud figure withered down, her features were locked and hard, but out of their pallor her great eyes shone with terrible brilliancy.
She remained, after they left the box, drooping sideways from her cushioned seat, with the cold pallor of her face hid in the crimson shadows, and kept from falling by the sides of the box, against which she leaned heavily.
The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous lustre of the eye, above all things startled and even awed me.
The pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue--but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out.
The thin lips moved and trembled for a moment, and then were still again, and augmentedpallor shrouded her.
Fortunately, the abrupt entrance of the clergyman, here turned away attention from the sudden pallor of Pierre's countenance, and afforded him time to rally.
So that when once more he left the mansion in order to freshen his cheek anew to meet the keen glance of his mother--to whom the secret of his possible pallor could not be divulged; Pierre went forth all redolent; but alas!
Again he glanced at Lucy, and saw a look of infinite subdued vexation, and some unwonted pallor on her cheek.
Unfortunately, his pallorwas perfectly obvious, and its significance, the stab being unknown, was misunderstood.
Those full, sensitive lips that showed like a splash of carmine in the clear pallor of her face!
Her hand dropped from the mare's neck, where it had almost touched mine, and I watched her mouth grow tremulous until the red of it showed in a violent contrast to the clear pallor of her face.
Her eyes shone with an unhealthy luster, and her dark hair, falling in heavy curls over her shoulder, added to the wonderful pallorof her cheeks.
In her face there was a pallor that even in his instant's glance sent a chill of horror through the man and as she staggered toward him, half falling, her lips weakly forming his name Nathaniel leaped to her and caught her close in his arms.
His face instead of betraying the former's pallor was flushed with excitement; his head was held high; not a sign of fear or hesitation shone in his eyes.
Suddenly Winnsome drew back from him, the pallor gone from her face, her eyes blazing like angry stars.
It was a blood-curdling sound and his face turned a more ghastly pallor as he gazed inquiringly at Neil.
For a few moments it seemed to grow fainter and fainter, and a choking lump rose in his throat as he watched the pallor of death fixing itself on the councilor's shriveled face.
But her pallor remained, and I cannot make sure now whether this betokened weary resignation or some secret and but half recognized fear.
I saw it in her posture, in the pallor of her cheeks and the uprightness of her carriage.
He was startled by the dead pallor of her cheeks, by something lifeless in her eyes, which looked at him strangely, without recognition.
The faint smile on her deep-cut lips waned, and her head sank deep into the pillow, taking on the majestic pallor and immobility of marble.
She wanted never to forget his face until its pallor and its transfiguration, until its significance, were fixed upon her heart.
His hair lay in a mass on one shoulder; it had been carefully tied back with a riband, and in all that black setting the pallor of his countenance seemed deathlike.
Now the road was only faintly luminous with the reflected pallor of the sky.
He wouldn't have it spoiled with water and swallowed it neat, but even the brandy could not alter the ashen pallor of his face beneath its coating of coal dust.
Although the marks of the cuts and bruises were still visible on Philpot's face, they were softened down by the pallor of death, and a placid, peaceful expression pervaded his features.
They passed each other hurriedly and he did not see the scarlet flush that for an instant dyed her face, nor the deathly pallor that succeeded it.
I could have taken her to my heart and soothed her as I would a child, but the pallor of womanhood, which had replaced the blush of the child, awed me and made my own words come hesitatingly.
Holt, a flush of real feeling for a moment disturbing the chalk-white pallor of his cheek.
They fell on her ears as warm thaw-rain on frozen sward; and slowly into the pallor of her face, the whiteness of her closed eyelids, crept a tender blush.
A fugitive wave of pallorran up her cheek, leaving its white trail behind.
He was rendered conspicuous by the fact that he wore no hat, and by the deadly pallor of his face, relieved only by a reddening bump beneath the right eye.
With a face blanched to the pallor of death, he stood before the old man.
They also forced up the pallor of her face, which was relieved only by a faint blotch of color in either cheek, and, in spite of this, in a curious fashion made her beautiful.
The sick girl smiled again, and the pallor of her fragile face intensified the faint shining of her eyes.
The pale-blue blouse that hung in filmy, lace-like folds heightened the color of her eyes and the clear pallor of her ivory complexion.
She was thinner than she had formerly been, and her pallor had refined her by softening the look of hard and brilliant vitality which had characterized her before she had left Reanda.
