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In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy in her livid countenance, and something which resembled a smile.

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 Meanings and Examples of LIVID
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livid
 a.  lead-colored; black and blue; discolored, as from a bruise; extremely angry
Classic Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1  Her eyes were glassy; she turned pale instead of livid, and she trembled with a quiver of terror.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XII—M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY
2  Penetrate, at certain hours, past the livid face of a human being who is engaged in reflection, and look behind, gaze into that soul, gaze into that obscurity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
3  She was livid and her lips were blue.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
4  He would have been taken for more than sixty years of age, from his perfectly white hair, his wrinkled brow, his livid lips, and his countenance, where everything breathed depression and weariness of life.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
5  Cosette's thin and sickly face was vaguely outlined by the livid light in the sky.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE...
6  The moon cast a livid light into this open space.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
7  Her nostrils were livid and pinched as after yielding up their last sigh.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
8  He was a tall, thin, livid, utterly funereal man.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
9  Green is the pallor of livid people.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
10  Through the twilight, Marius could distinguish their livid faces, their wild heads, their dishevelled hair, their hideous bonnets, their ragged petticoats, and their bare feet.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—TREASURE TROVE
11  Near the table, upon which Marius descried a pen, ink, and paper, sat a man about sixty years of age, small, thin, livid, haggard, with a cunning, cruel, and uneasy air; a hideous scoundrel.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR
12  In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy in her livid countenance, and something which resembled a smile.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS
13  They were livid with the chill of morning.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
14  The twilight pallor of the sky blanched the earth, and the lane formed a livid line between two rows of dark bushes.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
15  He dropped a kiss on that livid brow, where the icy perspiration stood in beads.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VII—GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCE...
Example Sentence:
1  He was covered in livid scars and patches of discolored skin.
2  I am absolutely livid about it.