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