Word: pallid
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pallid grew each listener's cheek...
Should change to glowing sun the pallid moon...
...Yard has looked pleasant for the past few days; even gloomy old University wears a more cheerful aspect. Steps are lighter and faces more bright, except perhaps the pallid faces of Freshmen who are on their way to the examination-room. There they will become oblivious to everything but the proctors, while they scribble the accumulated lore of a night's grind or a crib upon the pages of the well-named blue-book; and when the last of those tragedies - or farces, if you will - is over, they, too, will be as merry as the rest...
They dance and wave in the meshes and flash in the pallid gleam...
Softly o'er her pallid petals...