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Example sentences for "pale face"

  • There was no fear in his calm, pale face.

  • Though it cost her great effort, Alice Martell rose instantly, and greeted him so cordially as to bring the deepest crimson into his pale face.

  • As they entered, they saw a little wiry man, with a pale face full of wrinkles and crowsfeet, bounding up the first flight of stairs, two steps at a time.

  • He it was who was to be sometimes seen stalking through the parlors with a pale face, or running up and down the front staircase in a state of great nervous agitation.

  • There was a pleasant smile in the old gentleman's pale face, and a warmth in the grasp of his thin right hand, that attested the sincerity of his words.

  • It was by no means in Harriet's nature to accept any such position, and her lanky little figure and pale face seemed to bristle all over with suppressed passion when she was addressed in this way.

  • Jane had listened with her usual, absorbed attention, her round black eyes fixed on her companion's pale face.

  • She came back at last, with a pale face, to the doctor.

  • Of course, they stopped when they saw the waggon and the Squire's pale face.

  • The colonel had floored his antagonist on the left, and turned to behold the dominie's pale face.

  • You knew he was in town," says Joyce, advancing to her, and looking down on her with clasped-hands and a pale face.

  • Could she live and see that pale face in imagination filled with scorn for the desecrated friendship that once had been a real bond between them?

  • Joyce, raising now a pale face to turn a glance of gratitude on Mrs. Connolly.

  • After a glance at Henry's pale face, Kate Marston took the first opportunity of turning the subject, and though by so doing she enabled her cousin to recover himself and join in the conversation, he very soon left the tea-table.

  • It was but the intensity of suspense--every eye rested on the fair, pale face.

  • They had scarcely seated themselves at the supper-table, when a ring at the front gate startled every one, and presently the housemaid appeared with a pale face, and beckoned Henry Halford from the room.

  • The cold glimmer of day fell full upon the girl's pale face.

  • She drew nearer and surveyed her pale face closely.

  • Ambrogio dropped his brush and rose with a pale face.

  • I do not remember who they all were, but I can still see Stuermer's pale face.

  • Only when a man's head rose up straight before her, by the heavily carved banister, she glanced up, and looked into a pale face framed by dark hair and beard, and into a pair of shining brown eyes.

  • She looked at his still, pale face, and a sudden strong determination to fight for him welled up in her heart.

  • I'll dress and go down," he said, when he saw Aileen's pale face.

  • A young florist, with a pale face, a wide speculative forehead, and anemic hands, struck him as being sufficiently impressionable to his personal charm to be worth while.

  • And none of the gaping yokels of the town obtained even a glimpse of the sick woman's pale face, as she was conducted to the covered carriage in waiting for the train.

  • I believe it," he said in fright, as he noted Braun's pale face.

  • No flush of triumph colored Arthur Ferris' pale face as he pondered over his dispatch to Hugh Worthington.

  • There was no responsive smile on Anne's pale face.

  • There was no answering smile on Anne's pale face, yet its perfect calmness and the steadiness of her clear gaze reassured him somewhat.

  • Many restraining arms were now raised, as the white fury flashed over the judge's pale face, as rare and deadly lightning glares from the paleness of a winter sky.

  • Hugh Ritson's pale face flushed a little, and he drew his breath hard.

  • It was a blank, pale face, full of splendid resolution and the nobility of suffering, but without one ray of hope.

  • She raised her long veil and showed a calm, pale face.

  • A shadow that he tried to keep back flitted across Artois's pale face, over which the unkempt beard straggled in a way that would have appalled his Parisian barber.

  • Among the last was a tall boy with jet-black, curly hair and a long, pale face, whom Gaspare promptly presented to his padrone, by the name of Amedeo Buccini.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    correspondent writes; dear marquise; flatter myself; great genius; inch reflector; induce the; little essence; multiple proportions; pale blue; pale brown; pale brownish; pale face; pale greenish; pale grey; pale olive; pale pink; pale purple; pale reddish; pale yellow; pale yellowish; paler beneath; person named; sized pieces; thought they; white hands; whom were