pallid
Speech parts
1. pallid - Adjective
2. pallid - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue.
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Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.
Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.
And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
A pallid and thin young man, A haggard and lank young man, A greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery, Foot-in-the-grave young man!
Along A River-Side, I Know Not Where, I walked one night in mystery of dream; A chill creeps curdling yet beneath my hair, To think what chanced me by the pallid gleam Of a moon-wraith that waned through haunted air.
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door.