To make an accord of those whites and blacks—the gray that adheres to the walls floats in a mist, extends the softness, makes uniform its tint of pale ashes, as if it were the ashes of years fled from a material heart.
The words were perfectly clear in the pale morning light.
Gray looked in vain for what he had hoped to see--the outline of horse and rider against the pale silvery glow of the sky.
He stopped rubbing his leg, and turned his pale blue eyes full on Gray.
I hear the long roar of the breakers; I see the flickering fishers' lights, and Etna pale under the stars.
It was the lemon harvest, and everywhere were piles of the pale yellow fruit heaped like apples under the slender trees, with a gatherer here and there; for this is always a landscape of solitary figures.
It was the application of force in its most material forms, and dehumanized those upon whom it was exercised, placing them outside the pale of manhood as a preliminary to its work.
One pale amethyst, and papers Which by age had turned quite yellow, Gave the gnome now to young Werner, Saying: "Take these as mementoes!
Werner with most solemn aspect, Dressed in black, the room now entered; Sadness lay on his pale features.
Gently slumbering lay young Werner, Pale in youthful beauty, looking Like a statue.
Poor pale man, till there are blooming On your own cheeks just such roses, On your hat you'll have to wear them.
At the rudder sits a pale man, Clad in black and monkish robes.
Fountains played, and birds were singing; E'en thepale old marble statues With warm life became imbued.
She too sprang up, with a pale face; with a pale face, she heard him as he raved out his complaint: Why did she torture him so?
It is the particular cross of parents that when the child grows up and becomes himself instead of that pale ideal they had preconceived, they must accuse their own harshness or indulgence for this natural result.
He came nearer, and held up his arms to where she stood,--the heavy, masterful face pale and wet.
Yet, sitting there, looking out into the listening night, the poor child's face grew slowly pale as she heard it.
Holmes's pale lip worked: what was this coming to him?
Just there she had stood, clutching her little fingers behind her, when he came up and threw back her hood to look in her face: how pale and worn it was, even then!
Men with pale faces and heavy jaws like his do not carry their religion on their tongue's end; their creeds leave them only in the slow oozing life-blood, false as the creeds may be.
Knowles looked at the pale strength of the iron face.
Here and there a pale flicker from the gas-lamps struggled with the ashy twilight.
I think the pale skin hurts your artistic eye, or the frozen eyes,--which is it?
There was a flower stuck in the button-hole of the school-master's coat, a pale tea-rose.
He met her alone in the morning; but when he saw how pale she grew, expecting his outbreak, and how she glanced timidly in at the room where Stephen was, he relented.
Above, the sharp peaks of stone rose into the wan blue, wan and pale themselves, and wearing a certain air of fixed calm, the type of an eternal quiet.
Mr. Holmes may have quarrelled with the rendering, doubting to himself if her lip were not too thick, her eye too brassy and pale a blue for the queen of months; though I do not believe he thought at all about it.
I will not take in place of her this worn, pale ghost, who wears clothes as chilly as if she came from the dead, and stands alone, as ghosts do.
A pale and silent party of guests and servants gathered under the window when the news was known.
Franklin was confused by the sudden announcement that he existed at all, and, in particular, in that small boat on the sea.
It is seven and a half feet long, and six feet high.
It had been taken from the children by an unkind father and given to strangers.
Very often Harry went to wheel Edgar Stopford's chair, when the two boys would have long talks about the rabbit; and Edgar's paleface would quite glow with pleasure as he listened to Harry's praises of the wonderful animal.
They must be very pale brown, or rather fawn-coloured; on no account let them get very brown.
Instead of a defiant thief or murderer, a paleand weary Man stood before him.
It was strange that what Fé would have trembled to confess in the broad daylight he felt strong and brave enough to acknowledge by the light of the pale moon.
She turned pale and had she not gripped the arm of the man beside her, would, I think, have fallen.
When he had heard it, the tears welled from his hollow eyes and ran down his pale cheeks.
It did not even need, while she turned to whisper something to her companion, that the cloak she wore should open a little, revealing on her breast a necklace of emerald beetles separated by inlaid shells of pale and ancient gold.
He was a tall, pale man, with an uncertain mouth and a little pointed chin, apparently between forty and fifty years of age, and his face was made dreadful by two red hollows where the eyes should have been.
Nay, why should you turn pale at the mere sight of the place that you thought good enough to be the bed of a faithful soldier of your own, one high in your service, whom it has pleased you to blind?
A chain of pale gold, and hanging from it golden shells inlaid with blue, and between them green jewels that hold the moon.
Jesus stooped and took the pale hand of the youth.
He was wiping blood from a cut on the boy's pale forehead.
The moon was pale in the dawn when Judas finally forced himself to go back to the olive orchard.
I hold in my hand a Japanese paper-fan with a design upon it of the simplest sort: one jointed green bamboo, with a single spurt of sharp leaves, cutting across a pale blue murky double streak that means the horizon above a sea.
Large sparks dash up through it continuously, like an effervescence of flame;--and queer broad clouds of pale fire swirl by.
When purchased the Madras is simply a great oblong handkerchief, having a pale green or pale pink ground, and checkered or plaided by intersecting bands of dark blue, purple, crimson, or maroon.
The sea-line remains invisible as ever: you know where it is only by the zone of pale light ringing the double sphericity of sky and ocean.
A pale but very large ink-stain stared up at him from the wet carpet.
Dorry, as, pale with excitement, she attempted to take it from her brother's hands.
A short, middle-aged woman, with pale blue eyes and scanty gray hair, opened the door.
Your cheek is pale as marble," he replied, tapping upon it.
I should have begged him to stop and let us scramble up a rocky path to the haunt of a pale spirit disguised as a waterfall.
Wherever there was shadow this pale glimmer painted it with ethereal colours, like the backs of rainbow fish moving under water.
On her flat breast was a flat brooch with a braid of palehair as a background.
There was a pale dusk mingling with the moonshine, and I couldn't help remembering the mysterious light in Sweetheart Abbey, on my first night of Scotland and the heather moon.
There were several dresses, of delicate materials and pale shades, or else of daring colours elaborately trimmed.
It was I who, looking back, first caught sight of the jagged pinnacles boldly painted in purple on a far, pale sky.
There were jagged, bare rocks, and rocks whose shoulders were half covered as if with torn coats of faded brocade, dim silver of lichen, and pale pink of wild flowers.
In a room decorated withpale blue satin, red hair might perhaps simulate gold.
But it is a gray bright and silky as the wings of doves, and in some lightspale as moonbeams.
They looked at us with horizontal eyes of pale brass cut across with narrow slits of jet, and their thick wool, wet with rain, sparkled as if encrusted with diamond dust.
His face was pale and the cheek-bones seemed ready to pierce the reddened skin; his eyes had a glassy look under the inflamed lids.
The lad wore a round hat, tilted on the back of his head, the brim framing his fine pale face in a dark aureole.
Now his sombre eyes andpale cheeks revealed a melancholy and passionate soul.
But a difficulty arose; the verifications could not be made in legal form, the Commune as a body having been put outside the pale of law.
He rose with a pale face and said in a voice of suppressed emotion: "I am a magistrate.
He doesn't laugh now; look how pale he is, the coward!
The Lucia of seven years ago seemed to bloom out again in that paleface and wrinkled forehead; and a smile came over his face, too, as he looked.
She was holding it ajar and looking out with pale face, and wild hungry eyes.
Her face was as pale and calm as the pale, calm faces of the two worn-out babes, whose heads lay on the pillow close to hers: but her eyes were lit up with an intense glory, which seemed to fill the room with love and light.
His arms folded, his pale cheek flushed to pain, he moved before her, and stood there, drawn to his full height, speaking hoarsely.
Formerly, nothing so common as a regular postman, when on duty, was admitted within the pale of that exclusive place.
Some of the gentlemen-listeners' faces turned as pale as Mr. Bill Simms's; as pale as each conscience.
As to the boys, those who were of an excitable temperament, looked quite pale with suspense, now the long-expected moment was come.
Clattering along the outer hall, and bursting in at the court door, his black hair disordered, his usually pale cheeks scarlet, his nostrils working with excitement, came Roland Yorke.
He had a pale face at the best of times, and it was embellished with straw-coloured hair.
There were moments, and this was one of them, when Constance felt almost beyond the pale of hope.
But it seems to be my duty," she urged from between her pale and parted lips.
Be silent, sir," said Mr. Yorke, hispale cheek flushing.
She waspale and trembling, and called in tones of terror: "John, my friend, come at once!
His pale and firm-set features, set off by his long straight hair, gave to the man an air of sculptured impassivity.
The woman and her two companions bade me good night, snuffed the candles in the candelabrum, and left me for light a single alabaster lamp, which threw a pale illumination over the spacious room.
The large space reserved behind the bar for visiting deputations was suddenly filled with patriots, who brought with them Swiss soldiers, pale and trembling, and several of them wounded.
I was pale with rage at hearing the Marchioness's bitter sarcasms.
The prince was pale and uneasy, although he affected to smile at the throngs of combatants, who still carried their arms.
The Marchioness casts an implacable look at the Count, then she blushes--she who till now has been as pale as marble.
Pale and quavering one of the officers spoke: "The alarm bell sounds in Paris!
Her husband's features were pale and glowering; he seemed worked up, agitated.
One of these, in the uniform of the National Guard, his forehead bound in a bloody bandage, held in one hand his gun, and with the other dragged after him a Swiss soldier, pale and overcome with terror.
Listen: ‘The pale young man fairly trembled as he looked at her.
He who could bend all things to His will Has covered the door of the infinite fold With the pale stars and the wandering moon.
And now, when the moon's riding at the full, She leaves her dancers lonely and lies there Upon that level place, and for three days Stretches and sighs and wets her long pale cheeks.
THE CHILD I tire of winds and waters and pale lights.
I heard one say "His eyes grow dim "With all the ancient sorrow of men"; And wrapped in dreams rode out again With hoofs of the pale findrinny Over the glimmering purple sea: Under the golden evening light.
The hermit-thrush, on his tree-top against the pale sky, sang no more, but dropped noiselessly to his mate on her nest in the thickets.
But it was a cat, plainly enough; and Miranda's heart went out to it, as it sat up there in the shadows, watching her steadily with wide pale eyes.
At the first lift of those great pale wings Star-Nose had detected this new and appalling peril.
The air became gradually transfused with amethyst and pale rose.
So, bend his body softly; rub his temples; Nay, that shall be my office: how the red Steales into his pale lips!
Shall we pronounce "crimson" and "scarlet" sins and sinners beyond the pale of mercy, when Jesus does not?
Oh, how our most unceasing activities pale into nothing before such an example as this!
She was pale with dark hair, and the great grey eyes of her father; and she loved and lived in Anthony from the very difference between them.
The mere ring of that furious royal voice, even without the sight of her pale wrathful face and blazing eyes that Walsingham looked upon as he backed out from the presence, was enough to make this lad's whole frame shiver.
The four candles shone out through the windows, and there still hung a pale glimmer outside owing to the refraction of light from the white stones of the terrace.
It was less dark here; the leaden sky overhead still glimmered with a pale sunset light; and many house-windows shone out from within.
It was a comely refined face, a little pale but perfectly serene: his pointed dark brown beard and moustache were carefully trimmed; and his large passionate eyes looked cheerfully about him.
The columns rose up in slender bundles and faded into the pale gloom overhead; as he crossed the nave on the way to Papists' Corner far away to the east rose the dark carving of the stalls against the glimmering stone beyond.
She looked almost like a child dreaming, in spite of her wrinkles and her snowy hair; the pale light of a serene soul lay on her face.
It was one of those glorious days of wind and sun that occasionally fall in early October, with a pale turquoise sky overhead, and air that seems to sparkle and intoxicate like wine.
Or, a chevron between two pairs of compasses extended, in chief, and a sphere in base; on a chief a pale between two roses, the pale charged with an escallop.
Party per fesse, azure and or, a pale counterchanged, the first charged with three gridirons, the handles in chief, of the second.
Party per fesse a pale counterchanged; on the first three doves each holding an olive branch.
A swan with wings expanded, within a double tressure fleury-counter-fleury; a chief charged with on a pale between two lions passant-guardant a rose seeded and barbed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pale" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
