"Pallid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the night sounded successively, until the first gleam of dawn cast its pallid light upon the ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas
... and it seemed to her that he spoke with a pallid and bitter desperation, like a man driven to the wall. "I can if you think you ...
— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington
... never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting, On the pallid bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming, throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow, that lies floating on the ...
— Poems Every Child Should Know - The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library • Various
... afternoon of which I now speak, in the midsummer of the year of grace 1621, as I sat upon my doorstep, my long pipe between my teeth and my eyes upon the pallid stream below, my thoughts were busy with these matters,—so busy that I did not see a horse and rider emerge from the dimness of the forest into the cleared space before my palisade, nor knew, until his voice came up the bank, that my good friend, Master John Rolfe, ...
— To Have and To Hold • Mary Johnston
... heavens. The cold wind from the west freezes the moustache to one's pipe-stem. By noon the air is thick with a coagulated mist; the temperature meanwhile has risen, and a little snow falls at intervals. The valleys are filled with a curious opaque blue, from which the peaks rise, phantom-like and pallid, into the grey air, scarcely distinguishable from their background. The pine-forests on the mountain-sides are of darkest indigo. There is an indescribable stillness and a sense of incubation. The wind has fallen. Later on, the snow-flakes flutter silently and sparely through the lifeless ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece • John Addington Symonds
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