The samurai knelt down and rested their foreheads on the grass, clasping their hands in token of admiration and respect; Sampei covered his glowing face with quivering fingers; the farmer turned ashen grey.
When the latter glanced up from his occupation, his countenance turned to ashen hues and he stared at the leader of the imperial hosts as one would at an apparition from the beyond.
What was visible of his countenance was cadaverous and ashen gray, as that of a corpse.
I cannot answer you on these points," Crescentius spoke after a pause, during which the olive tints of his countenance had faded to ashen hues.
Over her nightgown, she had thrown on a Japanese kimono of ashen blue, embroidered in plum blossoms which looked wilted.
And both the empty space and the ashen sky seemed to be not outside of himself, but a part of the hidden country within his mind.
In that instant, it seemed to him that he was seeing, not the sharp projection of the roofs against the ashen sky, but a long line of pleasant and prosperous generations.
His eyes were blue and penetrating; his ashen mustache curled over a firm mouth; his clean-shaven chin was square and resolute.
The February sun--although it was within an hour of noon--could not break through theashen clouds that shut out the sky.
Ambitions burn in my breast, As the fires in a city rage; But damp creeps over their fervid zest And they sink away into ashen age.
That was close," gasped Grant, his lips ashen with terror.
His face was ashen and his eyes bulged wide with fear.
His eyes are staring glassily, his lips have a curious ashen colour, his hands are twitching--the hemp god has him by the throat.
Ellison fell back against the counter ashento the lips.
His eyes almost started from his head, his mouth opened, and his jaw dropped, his colour became ashen in its pallor.
The sunshine came through the window, between the heavy festoons of two faded damask curtains, and fell directly across this vase; so that a mild splendor was reflected from it on the ashen visages of the five old people who sat around.
There was a healthful suffusion on their cheeks, instead of the ashen hue that had made them look so corpse-like.
He lifts his mutilated ashen face moonwards and bays lugubriously.
The true Temptation of this world and flesh wears grey rags, dishevelled hair, and an ashen cheek.
And then she stood and trembled for a minute, while she piled up her great mass of ashen hair.
Her cheeks became ashen white and her strange eyes grew shadowed and fierce, and Gerard Strobridge was brought up sharply out of his intoxication of emotion by the look in her face.
The Duke's face became ashen white and his hand turned icy cold, but he did not speak.
Her ladyship took it, read it, her face growing a dreadful ashen gray.
Ashen pale, trembling and frightened, Ethel sat where he had placed her.
Her face turns ashen gray--she moves round and bends it over baby.
THE RAVEN 'Twixt ashen plank and dark blue sea, He sang: My true love waiteth me.
He looked to right, he looked to left, And down to the cold grey hearth, Where lay an axe with half burned heft Amidst the ashen dearth.
For 'twixt ashen plank and dark blue sea His sword sang sweet of deeds to be.
He handed hisashen staff to the holy Budoc, thus investing him with the government of the monastery.
Abbot Budoc restored the ashenstaff to St. Mael and informed him of the unhappy state into which the Abbey had fallen.
With dry dead moss and marish weeds His fire the western herdsman feeds, And greener from the ashen plain The sweet spring grasses rise again.
The ashen sackcloth of thy woe; And build, as to Amphion's strain, To songs of cheer thy walls again!
There was a crowd of the senior employees waiting around the door to congratulate the new vice-president, when old Edward Somers tottered in, his face ashen with fright.
Robert Wade turned ashen pale as he read Hugh Worthington's carte blanche powers given under his own hand to the new vice-president.
The limestone rock underlies the vegetation, and gives a glittering, ashen hue to all the bare patches, and even to the cultivated parts which are burnt up early in the year.
The sunshine came through the window, between the heavy festoons of two faded damask curtains, and fell directly across this vase, so that a mild splendor was reflected from it on the ashen visages of the five old people who sat around.
