Word: palely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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That dips below the sightless pale...
...below me, pale and still...
...rose again. Mechanically I made a hasty toilet and went over to breakfast. My friends told me that I looked pale, and had lost my appetite. It was no news to me. I asked if Stephen had been anywhere seen. No, not since yesterday. Where was he? I could say nothing, except that I did not know; I could not bring in that strange enchanted vision as evidence...
...looked up and saw him! Oh! I saw him! I turned pale, and staggered back against the railing, trembling in every limb. For it was the face I had seen on that never-to-be-forgotten night; the face of Stephen Maymore's murderer...
While on thy cheek now red, now pale...