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Example sentences for "pale and"

  • And so it was that in the small hours of the morning, Montague, pale and nervous, but quite unshaken, was sitting and listening while his brother unfolded before him a picture of the Metropolis as he had come to see it.

  • Pale and tearless, but shaken with alarms, she bent over the balustrade of the stairs and murmured a prayer commending herself, her husband, and Melissa to God.

  • Never, in all the years he had known him, had he seen Timotheus so pale and dejected.

  • All three going into the shop, and watching through the window, then saw Mr Baptist, pale and agitated, go through the following extraordinary performances.

  • While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal seas.

  • Pale and unreal in the moonlight, the river floated them away.

  • The whole change passed over him like a flash of light, and he stood in the same instant, pale and astonished, before his patron.

  • Pale and out of breath, with his cap in his hand, Mederic found the mayor seated at a long table covered with scattered papers.

  • Poirel de la Voulte raised his spectacles with a motion that was peculiar to him whenever he finished reading a contract; and the three heirs of the defunct looked at one another without speaking, pale and motionless.

  • Jacques stood in the middle of the room, pale and out of breath, holding an infant in his arms.

  • My uncle was lying, pale and exhausted, with weary, sorrowful eyes and heavy arms, on his bed.

  • Suddenly the emperor, pale and calm as usual, walked in, followed by Marshal Augereau.

  • An hour passed, when Constant, pale and sad, entered the room; he held a large, crumpled sheet of paper in his hand.

  • He is pale and exhausted, and his eyes are dim, for he has slept but little.

  • The door was violently opened, and General Caulaincourt appeared, pale and breathless.

  • Gabriel was becoming more and more pale and agitated.

  • For some seconds, these two tall figures stood out, pale and shadowy, in the farewell gleams of the Aurora.

  • Two She was found there by her aunt, pale and shivering.

  • Surely they could not want her like this, pale and distraught.

  • Now hidden by the mist, now clearly outlined: a kilted Scottish soldier, pale and weary, wandering it seemed to her, without direction or hope.

  • All my effort could not have moved the huge slab; but it opened the door of the cottage, and I threw myself once more, pale and speechless, on the couch beside the ancient dame.

  • I almost believe that a child, pale and peaceful as a snowdrop, was born in the Earth within a fixed season from that stormy afternoon.

  • But I do not mind that so much as his turning so pale and thin.

  • Soon after this Julia returned, pale and calm as a statue, and sat down humbly beside Jane.

  • He whipped out of the furious man's way, and got to the safe, pale and trembling.

  • Fleur-de-Marie, pale and alarmed, seemed fascinated by this look.

  • He half shuts the door, and remains close to it listening, pale and nervous.

  • The father's face, pale and wild, was looking out of the cab window as the son descended the house steps.

  • I enjoy seeing the work they do, but I am much distressed to see their bodies so thin, and their faces so pale and sad.

  • I could have wept myself when I saw him so pale and wan, but my joy effaced my grief, for at sight of him I felt so glad that I forgot all other pain.

  • She was getting out--pale and tired-looking, but nothing wrong.

  • She started, and turned round, pale and trembling, and lifting her eyes pleadingly to his face, silently placed the purse in his hand.

  • Lady Tynemouth looked astonished, gazed hard at the paper, then sprang to her feet, pale and agitated.

  • He didn't seem excessively worried about it before dinner, yet he seemed upset too, so pale and anxious-looking.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pale and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    carry away; different trees; flowers small; food habits; great affliction; inland seas; join the brimming river; milch cows; other groups; pale and; pale brown; pale face; pale gray; pale greenish; pale grey; pale greyish; pale pink; pale pinkish; pale rose; pale yellow; pale yellowish; paler below; paler beneath; sailing from; send down; staid till