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

Paleness

A death-like paleness … like one who trembling waits his fatal doom.
—Ariosto

Paleness, like winter.
—Beaumont and Fletcher

A sudden pale,
Like lawn being spread upon the blushing rose.
—William Shakespeare