Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Pallid
Pallid as coffined clay.
—Emily Brontë
Pallid as a saint.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Pallid as the snow.
—Ebenezer Elliott
Pallid as a corpse.
—Thomas Hood
Grew pallid and shrank,
As a taper in sunlight sinks faint and aghast.
—T. Buchanan Read
Pallid and pink as the palm of the flag-flower that flickers with fear of the flies as they float.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Pallid as a ghost.
—William Wordsworth