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pallid

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1. pallid - Adjective

2. pallid - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree. Anton LaVey

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. G. K. Chesterton

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. Arthur Rimbaud

A pallid and thin young man, A haggard and lank young man, A greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery, Foot-in-the-grave young man! W. S. Gilbert

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. James Russell Lowell

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door. Edgar Allan Poe

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