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Example sentences for "grew pale"

  • Wherefore Sir Fidelis grew red, grew pale, was by turns talkative and silent, and was fain to withdraw into the shadows beyond the fire.

  • It seemed that the pharaoh would rush at the insolent high priest; he grew pale, his lips quivered, his eyes stared.

  • He grew pale, his sight became dim, large drops of sweat came out on his face.

  • The nomarch, though a great dignitary, grew pale when he heard the humble invitation, and answered that he knew nothing.

  • I grew pale, fearing she might have heard these serious words, and frightened and confused, murmured some incoherent words.

  • He laughed so much that at the end he grew pale, put his hand to his chest, and, to the great terror of us both, threw up blood.

  • I grew pale, then crimson; afterwards other shades of yellow, green, and blue.

  • He grew pale at the thought that he was about to detail to another man all his dirt, to acknowledge his most secret thoughts, to say to him what one dares not repeat to one's own self, lest one should despise oneself too much.

  • He grew pale at the thought; the possibility of his cowardice was a punishment.

  • He felt rising in him, and increasing ever more and more, the desire to have done with these strifes and fears, but he grew pale when he thought of reversing his life, once for all.

  • Then was the story of the Haunted Hall, Where the huge picture nodded from the wall When the old lord look’d up with trembling dread, And I grew pale, and shudder’d as I read.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dear granny; described below; door life; extremely interesting; five centimes; for that; good length; grew angry; grew more; grew more and more; grew older; grew pale; grew very; grew weary; his son; natural forces; perennial herb; roast beef; seems likely; shall make; take chances; thou wouldst; what followed; when necessary; who commanded; would desire