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Definition of Palenesses
1. paleness [n] - See also: paleness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palenesses
Literary usage of Palenesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays on French Novelists by George Saintsbury (1891)
"... their palenesses, blushes, tears, sighs, and other perform- ances of the same
kind, are surprising. In the Lettres du Marquis de Roselle of Madame Elie ..."
2. The Voyage of François Leguat of Bresse, to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and by François Le Guat, Samuel Pasfield Oliver (1891)
"If one would but consider that this Complexion is, in a manner, unalterable, not
being subject to any of those Palenesses, ..."
3. Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Archaeological Institute of America Southwest Society, Sequoya League (1908)
"... blushes and palenesses that it made his heart miss a beat even now in
remembrance—when he had wrestled himself into a tired triumph for pride and had ..."
4. London Days: A Book of Reminiscences by Arthur Warren (1920)
"Are dyspepsia and indigestion to reduce the world to a common level of sallowness
and pain, to the pangs and palenesses that prevail in teetotal regions? ..."
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