We stood on the ashy edge of the crater, the sharp edge sloping one way down the mountain, and the other into the bowels, whence the thick, stifling smoke rose.
At length we saw them,--faint, dusky shadows in the horizon, looming up in an ashy color and with a most poetical light.
I think the open fire does not kindle the imagination so much as it awakens the memory; one sees the past in its crumbling embers and ashy grayness, rather than the future.
Whether her face was ashy pale and looked as if it might crumble at the touch, and the border of her white cap trembled in the June wind that blew, I cannot say, for I tell you I did NOT see her.
At this brutal speech, all the more intolerable for not being quite false, Mrs. Archbold turned ashy pale, and looked round for a weapon to strike him dead; but found none so handy and so deadly as her tongue.
And at the end, when the light thickens and the mesh grows tight, humour can share the suffering vigils of the sleepless, can soften pain, can brighten the ashyroad to death.
Only the water offered action and sound in the rocky channels; all else, to the horizon of ashy hills under a snow-laden sky, waited and watched the north.
As my sight became accustomed to the gloom, I could see from the darkness of the picture a pale Christ nailed to the cross with agonising upward eyes and ashy aureole above the bleeding thorns.
A runaway negro, an old man, ashy colored from fright and exhaustion, with his hands chained, was being dragged along by a common-looking man.
Marguerite, turned ashy pale, and sunk down in hysterics.
I stopped to examine the wound, and her mother bounded in, her black face ashy from terror.
Grey and ashy were their bodies, and long and sere and white their thin, blanched hair: and they were tremulous as reeds, and their wan hands were as the shaking wan leaves of the poplar when autumn is dead.
The ashyswallow shrike (Artamus fuscus) is common in India.
Defn: Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.
The ashy paleness of my cheek Is scarleted in ruddy flakes of wrath.
It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky.
He turned pale, an ashy hue spreading over his face; his eyes snapped and his face trembled like that of the lieutenant who had taken possession of the castle.
The bride lifted her head for the first time since leaving the vestry, and looked round about her, ashy pale and trembling.
The bright colour faded out of Mary Marchmont's face, and left her ashy pale.
There is such a fixed resolution in his voice, which is no longer quavering with sobs, and in his ashy face, that Jim offers no further resistance.
And to Pierre, once again the empty hand lifted itself, and once again the ashy hand fell.
Then both hands dropped on the sheet; and in the twinkling shadows of the evening little Pierre seemed to see, that while the hand which he held wore a faint, feverish flush, the other empty one was ashy white as a leper's.
Darker grew the blue gloom, the dew fell heavily, aromatic odors floated on the air, and still the lofty peaks glowed with living light, till in one second it died off from them, leaving them with the ashy paleness of a dead face.
Their ashyisabelline plumage, cold grey granite in hue, has less of a generous rufous tinge to relieve it than in the true-born Briton.
The hot unnatural color had left her cheeks, her ashy lips were strained back from her clenched teeth, her eyes were wide with an unspoken fear.
The child's dilated black eyes fixed themselves upon him, and her lips, drawn back a little from her teeth, turned ashy white.
Oneguine's cheek grew ashy pale, Either she saw not or ignored; Oneguine wasted; on my word, Already he grew phthisical.
An ashy cloak The golden ember now enshrines, And barely visible the smoke Upward in a thin stream inclines.
And they bade him do as he had said, he went and bade Sarah to make three ashy cakes and sent his child for a tender fat calf, which was sodden and boiled.
The belly is ashy white with a pair of small black spots on each ventral.
One of the suns rays shot down to it through the liquid mass, and Benito recognized the bloated, ashy features of the scoundrel who fell by his own hand, and whose last breath had left him beneath the waters.
The girl arose, ashy pale, as if she would seek shelter by the side of her mother.
By this time Stephen had slipped out of the noisome place, and was rambling on the quiet shore alone, with head bent, cheeks ashy pale, eyes fixed, and his brawny hands thrust deep into his pockets.
And still he held the cold hand in his hands, and still the ashy face rested on them.
They were discussing the letter of Sunlocks as Jason entered; and they fell back at sight of hisashy face and the big beads of sweat that dropped from it.
Both are of the same ashy tint beneath, with the thighs and under wing-coverts reddish brown, so that when on the wing and seen from below they are undistinguishable.
She obeyed, and almost cried out to see them take fire in mid-air and float away in ashy flakes.
Male -- Ashy above, with black and chestnut stripes on back and shoulders.
Whole throat and breast yellow-buff, shading to ashy on sides and to white underneath.
Male and Female -- Ashy olive-green above, with head and neck ash-colored.
Bill black, with tumid, fleshy covering; feet red; two middle tail feathers longest; all others banded with black and tipped with ashy white.
The men began to show uneasiness, too, and presently they came flying to me with ashy faces, saying she had sprung a leak.
