She pressed her pallid and wild-eyed face up to the glass so that her nose and lips flattened and distorted.

NEWYORKER: The Visitor

Her skin was pallid, shiny, as though she had a fever.

NEWYORKER: The Reptile Garden

While he may have already capitulated to Union troops, she enlists the stalwart Confederate general of her imagination to fight one more losing battle with the new Southern male, a pallid spawn who can't shoot, can't hunt, can't fight, and can't play cards.

ECONOMIST: American fiction (1): Cauterise | The