white-faced

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white-faced (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of whitefaced.
    • 1909, Mary Roberts Rinehart, “I Go to Pittsburg”, in The Man in Lower Ten, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 1:
      I never see a shivering, white-faced wretch in the prisoners’ dock that I do not hark back with shuddering horror to the strange events on the Pullman car Ontario, between Washington and Pittsburg, on the night of September ninth, last.
    • 1977, Genevieve Davis, chapter 28, in A Passion in the Blood, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 270:
      Angela, who had been sleeping in the alcove with the infant Rodrigo, looked white-faced at the bleeding man, whose lips were already turning blue.
    • 1989, Mandy Rice Davies, chapter 19, in The Scarlet Thread, London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN, page 277:
      As Sara watched, disbelieving, a slow moan escaped his lips and he thudded to the ground. Silhouetted against the hard blue sky stood Selena, swaying as she looked white-faced at the man at her feet.