How To Use Pallid In A Sentence

We looked limp and pallid and shambolic by comparison.
He mistakenly characterizes spirituality as a pallid Platonic flight from the world or some kind of interiorized religious stirrings.
a clearly defined _spirillum_, the _Treponema pallida_ of Schaudinn. Preventable Diseases
As such, he was utterly made for the job, as his combination of physical clumsiness, verbal ineptitude and unwaveringly glaikit expression must have made even the most gauche and pallid code-cruncher feel like a cocksure sophisticate. Be My Enemy
I could see, even in the dim light of my fading lamp, that his skin was pasty and pallid, his eyes dark and cloudy.

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The reclusive teenager was determined to tan his pallid body, but did not want to expose his feeble frame to others.
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pallidum.
From the corner of his mouth came a slow, thin trickle of bright red, dripping slowly down his pallid face like rain down a windowpane.
Shelley saw how, as the sun faded among the trees just as we would see it now: ‘pallid evening twines its beaming hair in duskier braids around the languid eyes of day: silence and twilight, unbeloved of men, creep hand in hand’.
Only down the side of this trickled moisture which had stained the stone with encrusta - tions and given life to some strange and ominous-looking growths pallidly yellow and dankly gray in the globe light. Flight in Yiktor
She was thin and undernourished, her pallid skin the colour of the rare arctic mushrooms in Professor Saito's plant laboratory. RUSHING TO PARADISE
His hands gripped pallidly upon the rail, and they were white with more than just the chill brine of the sea.
The term corpus striatum refers to the caudate, putamen, and globus pallidus.
He started his descent, passing through pools of color from the lights outside the house, their vividness flooding his pallid features. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
Pallid and mad, he swift upsprang, and he tore up a tree by its lusty roots, and down the declivity, dashing with rapid leaps, panting and wild, he struck the ravisher on the temple with the mighty pine. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
But its head resembled nothing more than a game bird's, with its pallid pimply skin and pronounced proboscis, or beak.
Two of these species are listed as threatened (VU or higher) by IUCN: yellow-legged pigeon (Columba pallidiceps) and Bismarck owl (Tyto aurantia). New Britain-New Ireland montane rain forests
Mrs. Tremaine grew more and more worried at his pallid face and stertorous breathing.
Again: — Pallid and mad, he swift upsprang, and he tore up a tree by its lusty roots, and down the declivity, dashing with rapid leaps, panting and wild, he struck the ravisher on the temple with the mighty pine. A Review of 'Alroy'
Most of these species are small mammals and include four-toed jerboa (Allactaga tetradactyla, EN), North African gerbil (Gerbillus campestris), James's gerbil (G. jamesi), pale gerbil (G. perpallidus), lesser short-tailed gerbil (G. simoni) and sand gerbil (G. syrticus, CR), fat-tailed gerbil (Pachyuromys duprasi), and Shaw's jird (Meriones shawi). North Saharan steppe and woodlands
Until recently, the concern had been that the recovery in the euro zone was so pallid and feeble that the big euro zone economies could not take a rate increase.
The batture lands are hydrologically connected to the Mississippi River, are flood-prone, and contain remnant habitat for “big river” species (e.g., pallid sturgeon) as well as river-front plant communities. Ecoregions of Louisiana (EPA)
The messengers were collected in a pallid group in the basement, discussing the affair in whispers and endeavouring to restore their nerve with about sixpenn'orth of the beverage known as 'unsweetened'. Psmith in the City
While the country expects, our pallid hero will buckle under the weight, following in the footsteps of a long line of unlucky losers.
The brilliant pallid moon remaining in its equitable position, cascading above the rural community and shining down its radiance like a stage light, pinpointing the main theme of a play.
After abandoning his ligature of the anterior choroidal artery on account of the variability of the area supplied by this artery, Cooper inserted a cannula directed by a simplified guiding device in order to inject fluids into the pallidum; in other words, he employed a stereotactic technique. Foreshadowings
Family Acipenseridae pallid sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus albus shovelnose sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus platorynchus Trout and Salmon of North America
_Carya-ovalis_, and the pallid hickory, _Carya pallida_; while two belong to the open bud class, _Apocarya_, the pecan, _Carya pecan_, and the bitternut, _Carya cordiformis_. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919
the pallid face of the invalid
M. testa fusiformi-turrita; spira elata, conica; epidermide pallide olivaceo induta, rufo-fusca, pulcherrime maculata, maculis saepe in lineis undulatis longitudinalibus dispositis; anfractibus planis, longitudinaliter plicatis, plicis aequalibus regularibus subdistantibus, ad suturas nodulosis; apertura oblongo-ovata, antice effusa; labio subincrassato; labro simplici, acuto. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
Nonnullos occidit ingens suppuratio, decem autem excoriatis supersunt plerumque octo: hi pecten habent nullum, ventremque pallida tegit cutis. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
When the apomorphia began to do its work there was a struggle of another sort, out of which emerged a pallid and somewhat stricken reincarnation of the governor. The Grafters
Within minutes the miniature oasis was no more, a flavescent smudge of decay against the sickly, pallid earth. A Triumph of Souls
It just sat there on the plate, stolid, pallid, and completely lacking in anything even approaching meal appeal.
A. pallidus was described as having an obliquely 5-toothed fruiting calyx in the original description by Bentham, who also described the upper subulate calyx lip as the posterior lip and the other 4 oblique minute teeth as the anterior lip.
Her aged face was pallid, her chest failed to move under her ragged brown garments.
No hastier retreat was ever beaten, and I took away with me the haunting image of the bland expressions and the horribly pallid complexions of the people staring at us through the chained door, their eyes piercing through you, their skin so white and deathly. ɘloЯ
Even if you accept that we Brits might look alike to our Stateside counterparts - pallid and vaguely unkempt with teeth the wrong side of ''eggshell'' - this is a stretch. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Their faces were waxy and pallid in the glow of the torchlight.
a pallid sky
They have shredded nails and pallid skin. Times, Sunday Times
And my pallid skin has remained that way, no sunburn. Times, Sunday Times
This is not the exact frame of the face as it flashes onscreen in THE EXORCIST, which you can see on the cover of the first edition of Mark Kermode's BFI Modern Classics book on the picture; the face in the movie bears much the same pallid, ogreish look as Bergman's Devil. PERSONA: Roots of Captain Howdy
_The diagnosis_ of luetic lesions of the esophagus, therefore, depends upon the history, presence of luetic lesions elsewhere, the serologic reaction, therapeutic test, examination of tissue, and the demonstration of the treponema pallidum. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
Mornings The shades are drawn, and the computer screen bathes Chas's bleary eyes and papery skin in its pallid light. THE SAVAGE GIRL
One sick, pallid face on the stage and another in the crowd. Times, Sunday Times
Coming to the top of the staircase, up which he had been followed by a servant with a pallid countenance and a small pigtail clubbed at the back of his head, like one of Goya’s sacristans or a tabellion in an old play, Swann passed by an office in which the lackeys, seated like notaries before their massive registers, rose solemnly to their feet and inscribed his name. Swann's Way
C. nigro-aeneus, fcutelli abdominisquc marijinc pedibus - que pallidis. Caroli a Linné. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis
Her hastened kiss sustains my pallid lips, her now strong arms embolden mine; her laughter lifts my body high, we swoop as one above the greening fields, the wheatstraw hills, the overflowing streams, the bountied oceans A Visit
Salinity tolerance of the tree legumes mesquite (prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana, P. velutina and P. articulata), algarrobo (P. chilensis), kiawe (P. pallida) and tamarugo (P. tamarugo) grown in sand culture on nitrogen-free media. Chapter 8
Strawberry-rhubarb strudel and strawberry-pistachio semifreddo are way too ephemeral, hazelnut dome too pallid, the house fancy cake too fancy.
Until recently, the concern had been that the recovery in the euro zone was so pallid and feeble that the big euro zone economies could not take a rate increase.
While the Kashmiri mode is delicate, and somewhat pallid, the Jammu style is bolder, more folksy, with hard outlines and fantastic colouring.
The pallid ray of light illumed the car interior awash in a murky tide. Sonnet of the Sphinx
Next to his tanned face, hers seemed pallid and unhealthy.
This paper is a study on morphogenetic process of bulb formation of explants from etiolated seedlings of Fritillaria pallidiflora Schrenk.
Pears … pallid corpselike mounds with no flavor. (shudder) And then in some ponderously jiggling, translucent green or orange blob reminiscent of a bad scifi B movie. Weird Foods « Colleen Anderson
In the end, one has to be disappointed by the pallid imagination of our public vulgarians.
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pallidum.
And in the Mississippi-Missouri River basin the full species called the pallid sturgeon and the shovelnose sturgeon are indistinguishable by genetic analysis but have obvious morphological differences. Trout and Salmon of North America
He has a pallid complexion and a brow streaming with sweat. Times, Sunday Times
Carabus pnlchellus: aeneus thorace fubglobofo, poftice attemiato, elytris puncta - to-ftriatis, maculls duabus pallidis, antennis pedibusqiie rufis. Favnae insectorvm Germanicae initia, oder, Deutschlands Insecten
A pinched smile that looked painful instead of cheerful worked across mom's pallid face.
Character designs are rather pallid and dull, completely uninteresting in style or drawn without any particular flare.
Jake was out of gaol again, his face pallid under the black beard but with his fervour burning more brightly than ever. THE WHITE DOVE
What Kallatra did with Deuce's crystalloid resonators was a pallid approximation. The Dragon Lensman
His usual gelled hair was tousled into a mess, his skin pale and pallid.
They are genetically unrelated to non-intestinal spirochetes, such as Treponema pallidum.
Not more than forty, with a clear, pallid skin that had never known the sun, he was paunched and weak - legged. Chapter 15
P. testa ovata, umbilicata; spira mediocri, acuta, ad apicem integra, cornea, viridescente aut pallide fulva; anfractibus quinque, convexis, saepe plus minusve transversim subliratis; apertura ovata; labio reflexo, umbilicum partim tegente; labro vix incrassato, peristomate nigrescente. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
Endemic jerboas include the selevinia (Selevinia betpakdalensis), comb-toed jerboa (Paradipus ctenodactylus), and the three-toed and five-toed dwarf jerboas (Salpingotus heptneri, salpingotus pallidus, Cardiocranius). Central Asian northern desert
Endemics include the desert dormouse (Selevinia betpakdalensis), comb-toed jerboa (Paradipus ctenodactylus), three-toed and five-toed dwarf jerboas (Salpingotus heptneri, S. pallidus). Central Asian southern desert
Treponema pallidum particle agglutination assay(TPPA) was positive in 44(30.34%) cases, among which rapid plasma reagin assay(RPR) was positive in 22(15.17%) cases.
He nodded and smiled, lifting his palm to brush away some stray pieces of hair from her pallid face.
Is it too much to hope that soon we may even see pallid harrier nesting here in Britain? Birdwatch: Pallid harrier
[62] "Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres. The Symbolism of Freemasonry
It was a pallid-eyed youth of eighteen in overalls who received Michael, receipted for him to the expressman, and carried his crate into a slope-floored concrete room that smelled offensively and chemically clean. CHAPTER XXIV
Grey-skinned office refugees fill Edmonton's Churchill Square, the bright midday sun forcing them to squint as they nibble on their pallid tuna sandwiches.
Perhaps their impression on the highly-calendared paper is a little pallid, but the comfortingly familiar, old-fashioned shapes and the clarity of outline and the quality of their casting do honour both to the punchcutter and to the typefounder. Netvouz - new bookmarks
These guys never go home, they're all white and pallid and beefy.
They are so thoroughly unhealthy, so morbid, so pallid with moonlight, so indentured by the ayenbite of inwit, that it is hard to believe that Shandygaff
In my dreams, his hair and skin tone are the same as mine, except he has no purple pigments embedded in his pallid white.
Next to his tanned face, hers seemed pallid and unhealthy.
Non sic prata nouo uere decentia aestatis calidae despoliat uapor, 5 saeuit solstitio cum medius dies et noctes breuibus praecipitant rotis languescunt folio et lilia pallido: ut gratae capiti deficiunt comae et fulgor teneris qui radiat genis10 momento rapitur nullaque non dies formonsi spolium corporis abstulit. res est forma fugax: quis sapiens bono confidat fragili? dum licet, utere. tempus te tacitum subruit, horaque15 semper praeterita deterior subit. Fatal Beauty
Small mammals and their predators are also abundant,, including hyrax (Procavia capensis), brown hare (Lepus capensis), spiny mouse (Acomys spp.), large North African gerbil (Gerbillus campestris), Nigerian gerbil (G. nigeriae), bushy-tailed jird (Sekeetamys calurus) and three different fox species, Rueppel's sandfox (Vulpes rueppelli), sand fox (Vulpes pallida) and Fennec fox (Fennecus zerda). Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands
Anna Lee Campbell Eiko and Koma's "Naked: A Living Installation" David Ferri's lighting, adapted from Eiko and Koma's own design for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where "Naked" was created and shown for a month last year, bathes the pallid figures of Eiko and Koma, who are married and have been working together now for 40 years, as if in beams of changing moonlight. In a Place of Dreams and Dreamers
She saw no more of him till the carrier brought home to her, on the Sunday morning, a starved and pallid object -- 'gone clean silly, an hutched thegither like an owd man o' seventy -- he bein fifty-six by his reet years. ' The History of David Grieve
I looked at her; her usually glowing face was pallid.
But despite all her highly charged sexuality, she's a rather pallid character with predictable sensibilities.
a pallid performance
(Yes, I know that Colin McAdam found a twonie on the floor Tuesday night, but that's rather a pallid consolation prize.) The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
However, with the realisation that the response to levodopa in Parkinson's disease tends to wear off and in itself can produce dyskinesias, pallidotomy gained renewed acceptance as a treatment if the disease proved refractory.
Some excerpts from a Renaissance mass are spatchcocked into Gluck's pallid Don Juan music.
And oh, if you aren't unhappy enough with what you see of these black and white films, Fox also provides pallid colourized versions to make you even more angry.
FoL fpitbam. alterna, fublyrata, laxa, glabra, fupra virid. fubtus pallida; lacin. ob - long. acutis, ioaequaLter dentat. Summa plantarum
He was sitting up again, somewhat pallid and not too strong, but with every promise, said the "medico," of complete recovery within two months. Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters
The pallid double-moons gleamed silver, highlighting some of the leaves, and he could see beams of the opalescent light fall through the breaks in the trees.
He was breathing hard, as if he had been running, and his pallid face shone bright with sweat.
At this time the condition of the patient was as follows: The face presented the appearance known as facies hippocratica: the eyeballs were prominent, the corneæ glassy, the pupils widely dilated, not acting to light, and there was no reflex action of the conjunctivæ; the lips were livid, the tongue tumefied, but pallid, the skin ashy pale, the cutaneous tissues apparently devoid of elasticity. Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
So fadeless, could leave thy warm cheek cold and pallid, Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men
Mornings The shades are drawn, and the computer screen bathes Chas's bleary eyes and papery skin in its pallid light. THE SAVAGE GIRL
She had a pallid face and huge eyes which were very noticeable. The Sun
But the fourth British species, the pallid harrier, is so rare that only a score or so have ever turned up here, wanderers from their breeding grounds on the remote Russian steppes. Birdwatch: Pallid harrier
She gingerly touched the pallid white gauze, then was brought back to the present by the burning smell coming from her toast.
I stared into the pallid milk of dawn and the words came out aloud: "To see and to be." in what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not know what they are, in the power of creating magical illusions, in the visions of truth in the depths of the mind when the eyes are closed; and I believe in [several] doctrines, which have, as I think, been handed down from early times, and been the foundations of nearly all magical practices. PoetryFoundation.org
Two years ago Christopher had a pallidotomy, where a hole was bored in his skull and brain cells were cauterised.
So we met to do him honor; worshipper and eager fawner begged a tassel of his whiskers, or his autograph in ink; never was there so much sighin 'round a pallid human lion, as he stood his lines explaining, taking out the hitch and kink! Rippling Rhymes
Thin layers of variegated slip gave pallid earthenware surfaces the illusion of solid stone.
She felt tears well up in her eyes and when she blinked they finally escaped to roll down her pallid face.
Dalmatae montes ubi Dite viso pallidus fossor redit erutoque concolor auro. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
“Faith, the beauty of Filia pulcrior drove pulcram matrem out of my head; and yet as I came down the river, and thought about the pair, the pallid dignity and exquisite grace of the matron had the uppermost, and I thought her even more noble than the virgin!” The History of Henry Esmond
Instead, too often they are bland and pallid readings of the surface of reality: events and names and dates without perspective.
_M. _ capite thoraceque flavis; abdomine pallidè fusco. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
The caves also contain one of the largest colonies of bats in the world: 11 species make their homes here, including western pipistrelle, pallid, lump-nosed, fringed myotis, and Mexican free-tailed bats. Travel Guide: the Incredible Natural Landscapes in the U.S.A. (Part 1)
Thus the secondary characters seem pallid in contrast to what we know of their real-life models.
This is not immediately evident from her photo, but in a country in which a perma-tanned former prime minister is categorised as white, and many pretty pallid mixed-race people, including a friend of mine I always thought was white until she told me she was black, are always categorised in line with their darker parent, it's regarded as important. Christina Patterson: The Perils of Straight-talking on Race
Their mocking, svelte sexiness made even this pallid romp almost bearably romplike.
You could actually use purple, alizarin crimson, you see incredibly pallid complexions with red bits.
You could actually use purple, alizarin crimson, you see incredibly pallid complexions with red bits.
The blanket term echinacea usually refers to three species of this plant: Echinacea angustifolia, Echinacea purpurea, and Echinacea pallida. Herbs for Health: Endangered Echinacea
Rem curans domesticam, ut ante, peperit aliquot liberos, semper tamen tristis et pallida. Anatomy of Melancholy
On these heights, which are mostly conoid with rounded tops, joined by ridges and saddlebacks, various kinds of Acacia cast a pallid and sickly green, like the olive tree upon the hills of Provence. First footsteps in East Africa
Ulcerata crura, sitis ipsis adest immodica, pallidi, lingua sicca. Anatomy of Melancholy
Her skin was all pallid, not as the lifeless corpse as many would likely say in jest and scorn.
A scoliotic, pallid man with a sweaty helmet of black hair and a sternum puckered like the halves of a clamshell, he extended both his hands up to me as if to be pulled up from his chair.
Around it are wide wastes, wan and cold, and meadows of asphodel, presumably strange, pallid, ghostly flowers.
It may be in some cases possible to demonstrate the treponema pallidum in scrapings taken from the ulcer. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
It was her gently splayed fingers that first drew my attention to her hands, long pallid fingers curving to knob-like ends.
It mixed with the tears that stained her pallid face and soaked her through to the bones.
But anniversaries do provide an excuse to look beyond the meretricious present and pepper the pages of our pallid and alliteration-strewn papers with remembrances of times past.
Where the dull thunder and the tossing spray warned us from sunken reefs, we heard the harsh challenges of gulls; where the pallid surf twisted in yellow coils of spume above the bar, the singing sands murmured of treachery and secrets of lost souls agasp in the throes of silent undertows. In Search of the Unknown
Wayne Stancill, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife hydraulic engineer, wants to document the rate at which the river creates new shallow-water habitat for endangered fish such as pallid sturgeon, and bare sandbars where endangered bird species such as the piping plover and least tern can nest. Flood opens doors to research; Lack of funds may close them
The response consists of tentacular writhing and mouth opening and is similar to the feeding response seen in A. pallida.
She glimpsed her mother lying feebly on a divan with a wrinkled, pallid face.
Perhaps aware that his male characters were pallid, he created a sub-plot featuring a romantic highwayman.
Her eyes were dull with sorrow and her cheeks would have been deathly pallid if not for the rogue she heavily slathered onto her cheeks.
From tufted masses of sword-like leaves shoot up the tall spires of the _yucca_, heavy with pendent flowers, of pallid hue, like the moon, and from the grass gleams the blue eye of the starry _ixia_. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
A stand of magnificent ghost gums with pallid white trunks and drifting thin leaves.
Three of the restricted-range species are listed as threatened (VU or higher) by IUCN: Bismarck sparrowhawk (Accipiter brachyurus), yellow-legged pigeon (Columba pallidiceps), and Bismarck owl (Tyto aurantia). New Britain-New Ireland lowland rain forests
The term corpus striatum refers to the caudate, putamen, and globus pallidus.
She turned up at the shoot casually dressed in trousers and a top: a little girl with pallid yet candescent skin and cocoa-brown eyes, who stands just 5ft 3in high.
It was a pallid-eyed youth of eighteen in overalls who received Michael, receipted for him to the expressman, and carried his crate into a slope-floored concrete room that smelled offensively and chemically clean. CHAPTER XXIV
Yet during my lifetime the pallid harrier has gone from being one of our rarest birds to a reasonably regular visitor, extending its breeding range westwards to Germany and Scandinavia. Birdwatch: Pallid harrier
It's a relief when it's merely 'snowpacked', 'sullen', 'ashen', 'pallid' or 'umbrous'. Times, Sunday Times
In every direction, the normally lush fairways of La Manga's south course were a sickly straw colour and the greens were a pallid brown.
It was gastric fever, and before long there _were_ unfavourable symptoms -- pallid changes in the aspect, hurried breathing, wandering senses -- all noted with heart-breaking anxiety by the loving nurses, the Queen and Princess Alice -- the daughter so tender and beloved, the "dear little wife," the "good little wife," whose ministerings were so comfortable to the sufferer overwearied with the great burden of life. Great Britain and Her Queen
In the Great Court as I stumbled out the strong blue sky, the bright white cladding seemed pallid, muddy and dull around me.
The dark atmosphere made it hard for me to see clearly, but I saw his pallid face under his dark hood.
Readers should forgive Lichtenstein for his ultimate pallid proposals for reversing the recent sharp economic and political decline of organized labor.
At the instant that Rex raised the weapon to fire, a vivid flash of lightning showed him, on his right hand, on the ghastly and pallid ocean, two boats, the hindermost one apparently within a few yards of him. For the term of his natural life
And oh, if you aren't unhappy enough with what you see of these black and white films, Fox also provides pallid colourized versions to make you even more angry.
Still, if a rather pallid tomato is the worst you can say about a place, they must be doing something right. Times, Sunday Times
She is pallid and gaunt, like a sexy vampire howling away, yelping out, ‘you're gonna have to step over my dead body before you walk out that door,’ and grabs the mike feverishly with black lacquered nails.
_C. _ pallidè rufo-testaceus; abdomine nigerrimo nitido; thorace bispinoso. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
It was a paltry, pallid return. Times, Sunday Times
Mme D. likes to pull strings, and uses her pallid lady's companion, the spinster Capulat, as her factotum.
The pale sky of early dawn was blemished by flat, wispy clouds and a pallid moon, low in the horizon that had yet to disappear.
In the cold, the only colour they added was of pallid skin. Times, Sunday Times
Complacent smiles linger on their pallid faces.
M. testa fusiformi-turrita; spira elata, conica; epidermide pallide olivaceo induta, rufo-fusca, pulcherrime maculata, maculis saepe in lineis undulatis longitudinalibus dispositis; anfractibus planis, longitudinaliter plicatis, plicis aequalibus regularibus subdistantibus, ad suturas nodulosis; apertura oblongo-ovata, antice effusa; labio subincrassato; labro simplici, acuto. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
But there's something about politics that, for most MPs, makes the civilian lifestyle pallid, tedious and even a bit scary.
About 50 species were recorded there including long distance migrants like pallid harriers, ruff and reeves, white ibis, comb ducks, etc.
And a fine pallid specimen too, the kind that teenagers should tell each other in coarse whispers while huddled around a camp fire on a pitch-black night. FINGERS • by Stef Hall
P. 6-10 cm. plane, margin striate, grey, yellow, brown, or white; g. pallid; s. 10-12 cm. narrowed upwards, minutely squamulose, volva large, margin free; sp. Manybooks.net
Davenport's permatan has faded to a pallid grey.
The sunlight slivered through the window and onto the pallid face of a young girl.
He is early old, this "child of hate," as Wotan long ago called him, sere and pallid, totally unglad and hating the glad. The Wagnerian Romances
He is a bland, pallid individual who seems to have nothing but the interests and passions of his dead relatives to guide him through life.
To the south-west hung Orion, showing like a pallid ghost through a tracery of iron-work and interlacing shapes above a dazzling coruscation of lights. When the Sleeper Wakes
Ramirez winced as the coverlet slipped and chafed one of the icy burns that wound around his pallid arms.
The blanket term echinacea usually refers to three species of this plant: Echinacea angustifolia, Echinacea purpurea, and Echinacea pallida. Herbs for Health: Endangered Echinacea
_F. _ nigra, nitida; flagello, coxis et abdomine subtùs pallidè testaceis. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Her anemic, monochromatic playing and pallid, unimaginative way with a phrase don't help matters.
Less synthesizer, more sewer, the Atlantic — an ocean of filth in its own right, stepping-stone-less, lily-white-launching-pad welcome mat for pallid oppressor-rapists — has dipped its toes in a curdled consommé of croaking crepitus? Matthew Yglesias » Wednesday Regenerative Animal Blogging
Her mother was propped up against a pillow, her pallid face hardly standing out against the white background.
So perhaps beardie has little interest in his poor pallid stepson. Times, Sunday Times
To try to prevent the loss of a crucial population of Pallid sturgeons, 750 captive-bred fish were released in 1998 into the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
V. testa turbinata, globoso-conica, umbilicata, spira mediocri erosa nodulosa, epidermide tenui pallide fusco-viridi obtecta, ad apicem purpurascente; anfractibus convexis, lineolis transversis et longitudinalibus elevatis decussatis, anfractu ultimo ad basin sulcis impressis spiralibus instructo; apertura ovata, antice subeffusa; labio vix reflexo. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
Her short red hair was crudely shaped in a wedge and her pallid cheeks and small chin were peppered with unsightly acne.
_The diagnosis_ of luetic lesions of the esophagus, therefore, depends upon the history, presence of luetic lesions elsewhere, the serologic reaction, therapeutic test, examination of tissue, and the demonstration of the treponema pallidum. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
His skin was bright salmon-pink on his hands and feet, and then faded to yellow on his arms and shins, and then to a pallid white.
Yet another time, near the hamlet of Pelayo, I could hardly see the sky because it was filled with common, pallid and alpine swifts, bee-eaters and house martins.
And where they mingled, where they crossed, flamed out suddenly immense rayless orbs; palpitant for an instant, then dissolving in spiralling, feathery spray of pallid emerald incandescences. The Metal Monster
All four barbels are evenly spaced under the jaw, unlike the related pallid sturgeon, which has barbels unevenly spaced under the jaw.
The physical examination showed pallid mucosa and a palpable mass in the epigastrium and mesogastrium.
It makes pale skins look pallid, and tanned ones look orange. Times, Sunday Times
He started his descent, passing through pools of color from the lights outside the house, their vividness flooding his pallid features. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
It is the chechia, the heroic chechia, now reduced to the vulgar status of a night-cap, and jammed down to the ears of a pallid and convulsing invalid. Tartarin De Tarascon
They are genetically unrelated to non-intestinal spirochetes, such as Treponema pallidum.
C. capite thoi-aceque fufcis fulvo tomentofis, abdominc fus. rufo, clytris fufco pallidis: apice inflexo flavo, puncto cxticmo nigro. Caroli a Linné. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis
It would also cut through the heart of prime wildlife habitat, including homes for at least 20 imperiled species, including the whooping crane, pallid sturgeon, woodland caribou, American burying beetle, interior least tern and western prairie fringed orchid. Noah Greenwald: Keystone XL in the 'National Interest'? No Way.
Consequently, the degrade soil now supports exotic species such as 'coco plum' Chrysobalanus icaco, lemon grass Cymbopogon citratus and calice du pape Tabebuia pallida, along with the endemic Dillenia ferruginea (R), Paragenipa lancifolia, Memecyclon elaeagni, Syzygium wrightii, Pandanus multispicatus and Deckenia nobilis, as well as Intsia bijuga and Canthium bibracteatum. Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve, Seychelles

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