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She does look warm and pretty next to pasty Edward, but his palid complexion is just frightening here. the previous poster was much more appealling, alluring, and more likely for viewers to actually ditch their old movies and take this one. ilovethecullens (10/9/2008 5: 19: 17 PM) i dont really like it, they could've done a lot better
Final ‘Twilight’ Poster Hits Net. What Do You Think? » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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I note that Smith (a likely name -- no? bet he changed it from "John Doe"), blandly palid as his remarks are to begin with, makes no mention of veteran of two wars and 25 years in the military Rita serving 33 months for the same crimes of which lifelong chickenhawk Libby was convicted.
Hagel: Commutation "Unfortunate"; Smith: "I Don't Know What Happened Here" 2009
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Yet I knew, or thought I knew him, even with his palid and emaciated countenance, and in his homely garb.
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And Tony Blair's blather about democracy, surrounded by SAS and Apaches, sounds rather palid.
Archive 2004-12-01 2004
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His palid speech before the American Legion drew fire from Joe Biden and Chuck Hagel, who were pissed.
THE NEWS BLOG 2003
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Beyond them, a hazy surround of a third was yet but a palid shadow of the others.
Flight in Yiktor Norton, Andre 1986
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When I looked at my foot I saw a palid ring, very pale to show against my white flesh, and the foot below that was grey, very cold and clammy to the touch.
Year of the Unicorn Norton, Andre 1965
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In truth, there was a great contrast between the farmer's rosy, broad, good-humoured countenance, which not even his present angry feelings could make morose, and Gladys 'pale, wearied face, rendered more palid than usual by her late fatigue and anxiety.
Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale
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We must silence the traitorous voices that would make us quake with the fear and palid terror of the coward.
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If the patient should be old and feeble and the countenance palid, he should be used sparingly, the head should be raised and frequently turned; if the patient can swallow, give a purge and aid its operation by injection, use the anti-spasmodic tincture freely by the mouth and by injection; rub the feet with the anti-spasmodic tincture and apply plasters of mustard-seeds, wet with the same.
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