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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Livid

As pale and livid as any skull unearthed from a graveyard.
—Honoré de Balzac

Lips as livid as the opening lilac-leaves.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Livid as Lazarus lately from death.
—Sidney Lanier