Above my head a pale sun tried to penetrate the heavy sky. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Soft, pale blue, with a fraying edge around the bottom that will never show, bought yesterday in the market with what should have been the egg money. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And there she lay, as he had seen her lie so many other times, propped up on the pillows, with a thin, pale face that would make you cry to look at it. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and for this he weeps in the night, and this is why he is so pale and so reedy a lad,” answered the eldest son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I recall she was in the pale blue dress with the sash that tied behind her back. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went downstairs and picked up a pale blue envelope from the dining room table and scrawled on the back, in large, painstaking letters: I am going for a long walk. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her skin’s pale, but her cheeks are pink—I assume from fighting the giant rat in the sink. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He could make out the shapes of the furniture, and the pale sheen of the silk coverlet on the bed. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The angle of fight from the workpad caused one half of his face to be in shadow from the cot, the other in that pale blue glow. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Her face was as pale as his was red, and she was biting her lower lip, but she didn’t flinch. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

His pale face broke into a smile when he saw Papa. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The king nodded, his lank hair swaying beside his pale cheeks. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then the sun was gone, leaving a pale lemon emptiness. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He shaved his pinched, pale face every third or fourth day, and most of the time he appeared to be growing a reddish- gold mustache over his skinny upper lip. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Sansa Stark looked especially lovely this morning, though her face was as pale as milk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Others stare at the pale green walls around them as if the answers might be there. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She was pale and very beautiful, and she looked at him as if she had never seen anything like him before. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

His pale face was locked in fierce concentration. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“No, of course there isn’t. When somebody’s sent here, there’s no . . .” Startled by the expression of distress on his pale face, she suddenly broke off. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jaime was led into the boiler room, where other men were lined up against the wall beneath the watchful eye of a pale soldier who kept his machine gun trained on them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bridge Dustfinger had mentioned lay ahead, its gray stone pale in the headlights. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her face lit up; she was so pale, so luminous under the streetlight, that wasn't just an expression. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I could see the venom turning her belly black even as her face turned pale. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The pale thing was telling her the truth. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She waits outside for Marco to return, a pale blue shawl pulled around her shoulders like a patch of day-bright sky in the night. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The pale coral is soft and delicate—I feel like a supermodel or something. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She had curling, mousy brown hair and a pale face with two spots of color high on each cheek. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Grace could see Maya’s pale face, her eyes blown wide open from shock, the way she had clung to Lauren’s arm even after Grace and her parents had arrived. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There was a small stain across an intricately threaded flower in shades of gold, part of a landscape that portrayed rows of tall sunflowers near a pale green stream. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man walked over to them, right to Moss, his pale hand there in the space between them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m Nikhil,” he is tempted to tell the attractive, nose-ringed cashier with dyed black hair and skin as pale as paper. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The kid was almost as pale as Octavian, but with dark eyes and messy black hair. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When she’s there, her pale skin and watery eyes make her look glamorously tragic, like a literary heroine wasting from consumption. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

My younger years and boy problems pale in comparison to what she dealt with. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"Charlemagne," he cooed at him also, for the baby was large and big-boned with blond fuzz on his pale pink skin, and blue eyes just like his German father's. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Her face is pale and when she meets my eyes again, her own have gone wet. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The moon without his gray outline shines with the pale glow of the Collective’s skin. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He stroked Nailer on the cheek; his pale eyes looked as bright and crazed as Nailer felt his own must be. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fadi saw the woman at the head of the line turn pale. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

By increments we were blinded, the mainland dimming and the sun fading to a pale white bloom, and we turned circles in the eddying tide until we’d lost all sense of direction. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her reddish-brown hair fell over her shoulders in waves, her pale skin flawless and luminous. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

His father's eyes were on him, pale green flecked with gold, so cool they gave Tyrion a chill. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gideon's lips twist into a hint of a smile, the low light casting interesting shadows across his pale face. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Underneath the leather brim of his cap, his pale eyes looked me up and down. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was the one with flaming red hair and pale white skin. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He looks handsome in his suit—not Scott handsome, he’s smaller and paler, and his eyes are a little too close together when you see him up close, but he’s not bad. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Simply stunning. Though such pale green tends to wash out women of pallid skin.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The morning light made its way in only through a few windows, painting pale patches high up on the walls and columns. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But my gratitude paled compared to my unalloyed joy that Walter and the others were free. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Calvin knows that I don’t want to make a mess of the clean pale paint. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Right now it’s hovering a few inches from my face, pale and smooth around the bone. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

A pale summer mist hung over it like smoke. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I look back at Master Wingfield, I see he is pale and shaken. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I think of the waiting room, with its ice-blue sofa and pale walls. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The day cleared and a pale sun dried the moisture. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then it’s just Venia, whose skin is so pale her tattoos appear to be leaping off it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The monster fixed its pale yellow eyes on Frank. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Under the black hood his face was as pale and round as the moon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even now, looking listlessly down, he saw a pale green tendril emerge from the lower portion of a thorny bush and slide silently toward them. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She bent down to touch the pale crystals, then rubbed her cold fingertips over her lips. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wide pale eyes took in every movement. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is thin and pale, dull eyed, with sharp cheekbones and matted dark red hair, wind-chapped cheeks, and a red-rimmed nose. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was like a child, her sweet face paler than the moon. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dawn sky was a pale rosy pink. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He is pale and lean, his cheeks sunken in. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The boy stood at the foot of Mr. Savo’s bed, looking very small and pale. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

His brown eyes were too big for his long, thin face, and since he had lost every single hair the pale, bald top of his head gave him a naked look. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The midmost stood somewhat forward from the others and sundered from them, an island in the waters, about which the flowing River flung pale shimmering arms. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I have my reasons for not showing it to you,” replied Mo. He looked very pale. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Instead she is pale and biting her lip to hide its wobble. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A trickle of spectators, some laughing, others pale and shaking, stumbled past us in the opposite direction. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A beating crimson heart in the pale chamber. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Kabuo lofted them into the hold along with three hake and three pale dogfish he intended to take home to his family. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lombardy, the large, pale, and intense Roman Catholic priest, was perhaps the chief supporting actor in the drama at Reykjavik. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some were fat and some were thin; some were browned by the sun and some were paler than Luke himself, who would never be tan again. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thin-clad birches, swaying in a light wind above their heads, made a black net against the pale sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The change of subject had worked the trick, for the area around Lola’s eyes which had been inflamed was freckly and pale once more and she was very much her old self. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Castle Black seemed a bleak and forlorn place in the pale dawn light. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I have lost faith in more than that,” Massey said, his breath a pale mist in the air, “but I still believe in supper. Will you join me, my ladies?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Its body was leonine, the skin stretched across its lean frame the pale pink color of something that hadn’t seen true sunlight in years. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The heavy rain had left the sky a pale, quiet blue. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ginger hair sprouted on his cheeks, too, sparse as a boy's first beard but not long enough to hide three long, pale scars. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“How’re you feeling? You were a little pale at the end yourself.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You still look very pale—and so thin! Poor child!—poor girl!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Behind them, a woman in a pale dress came running, screaming at the boys, begging them to stop. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was a pale and haggard Mr. Popper who was ready to announce his decision the next day. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she went to her dressing table and combed her hair, rubbed a little rouge all over her face, covered it lightly with powder, and put on the pale lipstick she always used. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked up, on leaving his arms, there stood the widow, pale, grave, and amazed. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was pale, though, and tired-looking, with circles under his eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Under pale blue skies, he drove along the base of high, sheer basalt cliffs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He had pale white skin like my uncle, and hair that always fell into his eyes. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It looked like I was lying inside a clearing in a forest of pale, hairy legs with white Burnt Mill Creek High School locker-room towels flocking their upper branches. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

When Siddhartha awoke, the pale river shimmered past the door of the hut, and in the forest the cry of an owl rang out, deep and clear. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are standing at the door, Mario, one of their distributors, and a tall, pale man behind him, his glasses thick and wire-rimmed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s of my parents posing in front of a gossamer curtain of pale ivory. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A freshly laid egg does not taste remotely like the pale, battery-produced refrigerated egg. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came back with a flagon erf pale amber wine and a small silvered looking glass in an ornate golden frame. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The other woman—a girl, really—has pale skin and dark, frightened eyes. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

"I'm grateful, my prince," he said, but Bran saw pity in his pale blue eyes, mingled perhaps with a little gladness that the cripple was, after all, not his son. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Upon the crest of a hill beyond the trees and roofs and spires of town sunlight lay like a pale scrap of cloth, was blotted away. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

His little hooked arm is curled tight against his body like an extraordinary seashell, pale and fragile. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was moving fast, almost running, and her long braid swept back and forth across the pale blue of her dress. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In her coat against the black trees, her face looks paler and more frightened than he has ever seen it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I liked jasmine in Rose City’s Dragon Pearl Jasmine, but that paled next to the scent of the fresh flowers. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Nan set her hand on mine; her veins ran a pale blue like the rivers on one of our maps. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Their summits glimmered pale and jagged as a row of sharpened teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Golden curls fall over his eyes, and the collar of his pale blue doublet is open, showing a heavy silver torque at his throat. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sloth, skinny and pale, bones and knots of knees and dirty blond hair, the next candidate for duct-and-scuttle work when Nailer got too big, her pale skin almost permanently sunburned and peeling. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

As I pulled off the sleeve, his pale green identity card peeked out from his interior jacket pocket. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He hurried through the door and brushed a mop of blond hair from his pale forehead. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She sat, pale and obviously stalling, on the couch edge, looking up at her mother. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her pale, bloated face wore an expression of imbecile happiness. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is bad,” said Root, his face uncharacteristically pale. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She kept this collection on shelves of pale, honey-colored wood. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The sheriff doesn’t look much like Sandy—he looks more like Mikey, with a sunburn spreading across his nose, puffy cheeks, and those small, pale, watery eyes. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

When she had unlocked them all, she lifted the front of the first one, and the pale form of a sparrow fluttered out, but fell to the ground before she could fly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They had nut-brown skin, dappled like a deer’s with paler spots, and large ears that could hear things that no man could hear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The white wolf raced through a black wood, beneath a pale cliff as tall as the sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The pale pink towel, a memory of when it was washed with a red one. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Heaven only knows how she must have despised her pale rat of a cowering mistress. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Huh, I think and head up the stairs, feeling less pink now and more of a pale yellow. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Yet there Lexie was, looking pale and uncertain and perhaps even a little red-eyed—all of which was most unlike Lexie, too. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looked down to see a pale yellow leaf. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday he sat with the two pale weak women. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Asta and Ben tried to comfort Pantalaimon, but he wriggled free; he wanted to be with the little pale form that could only weep and weep. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When she sets me on the edge of the bed, I am at eye level with her pale pink bosom. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The leaves of the big cottonwood tree had turned pale yellow; the first sunlight caught the tips of the leaves at the top of the old tree and made them bright gold. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Harry glanced at the ceiling and saw a clear, pale blue sky: a good omen. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We picked out three colors: aqua, pale yellow, and a bright green. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Taryn and I walk past the Lake of Masks and through the far corner of the Milkwood, picking our way past the pale, silvery trunks and bleached leaves. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Ned Stark thought of pale blue roses, and for a moment he wanted to weep. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Are you sick? You’re so pale—I worry about you, Luke, all day long. But then I remind myself, you’re safe here at home, out of harm’s way.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at her, she appeared pale and sunken around her eyes. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Under the lifting skirts of the dreary canopy dim light leaked into Mordor like pale morning through the grimed window of a prison. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

His skin was pale like he was dusted with powder. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

As the child passed me, I noticed his dark eyes were very large and his face was deathly pale. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her face looked unnaturally pale, and Percy suspected it wasn’t just the fog. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The pale mare and the sun s son. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The one time we took it down, there was a pale square behind it, as though the sun had tanned the wall around the painting. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There’s just a pale pink strip across my cheekbone. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The great pale silver blade was rising slowly, catching the brilliant light. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He was a pale, thin man in early middle age; his name was Teukros Basilides, and his dæmon was a nightingale. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I see Sandy scratching at his shoulder, pushing the T-shirt sleeve up, and I see blue and green and yellow on his pale skin. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The mystical reverence that he felt for her was somehow mixed up with the aspect of the pale, cloudless sky, stretching away behind the chimney pots into interminable distances. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

La Llorona’s gaunt face shriveled up like a pale raisin, becoming sallow and ashen, creased by centuries of wrinkles and dark blotches. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was pitch-black, except for a small, shimmering pale light coming from deep within. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She’s in the front pew, wearing a pale yellow dress and matching hat. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Holdfasts and cities and kingdoms of men all fell before them, as they moved south on pale dead horses, leading hosts of the slain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His pale eye flicked to the Story Box. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When she finally brought in a tray with the pale gold drinks, she had on lots of perfume and a clean yellow dress with a high neck, and her hair was fixed nice. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A mouth opened in the mouthless face, strands of pale stuff sticking to the lips, and a voice that no longer even faintly resembled her father’s whispered, “Coraline.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I grasped the bundle I carried and pulled at a pale tail. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He sat and shuddered: an insignificant man on a pale and muddy horse. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My favorite is the luna moth, huge and pale green, with crescents on the wings. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a building unremittingly unrevealing of what it held inside, with thick, featureless walls pale blue in colour and high, narrow windows impossible to look in through. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But next day, Want came to me pale and bare. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But this problem rather pales in comparison to the other problem, which is that both T-shirts are embossed with huge Confederate flags. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She looked haggard and pale; the last of the Gallivespian venom still remained in her body, causing agonizing pains in her joints, but she was not going to show him that. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Among the moss little pale flowers grew, and the sense of water mute and unseen. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pale face, burning with enthusiasm and for the moment with a strangely genuine gratitude, hurried from the room. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And perhaps most unusual in the context of Hampden—where pseudo-intellects and teenage decadents abounded, and where black clothing was de rigueur—they liked to wear pale clothes, particularly white. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The old pirate smiled in a way that caused Jasper Jr. to go pale. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Ben turned and saw the blade glint with a pale, slim hunger as Palmer twisted it back and forth in the light. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something flickered on her face and she reached out, removed one pale heart from the cluster, and inserted it into her mouth like a chore. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The pale sunlight flashed off the golds and reds every time Joff moved. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I was pale and wide-eyed as a fish. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That woman is just a pale version of my real mother, viewed through the self- centered eyes of a child. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They were so still, so pale, that they might have been dead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Three boys entered, and Harry recognized the middle one at once: It was the pale boy from Madam Malkin’s robe shop. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Then, with both hands, she tore the pants to the knee so the man’s pale calf was exposed. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes grew wide as we all watched her face change to a pale blue mask pulled down from her hairline to her swollen lips. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, a silhouette was blocked in it: a head and shoulders, glossed pale gold. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

One pale, plump figure waited in front of the open gate, and she smiled up at him as he came towards her, and there were tears in her eyes in the moonlight. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Slowly the grey light trickles into the post and pales the flashes of the shells. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of me now stands a young blond woman, slight and pale, and an earnest-looking man with a throbbing Adam’s apple and wearing a felt hat. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes, which were pale brown in color, and not at all large, were slightly crossed—the left eye more than the right. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

There were many birds about the cliffs and the rock-chimneys, and all day high in the air flocks of birds had been circling, black against the pale sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Gabriel’s curly hair was matted and filthy, and there were tearstains outlined in dirt on his pale cheeks. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her face is too pale and I can hear the anxiety she’s trying to hide. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We continued across the foyer to a dreamlike bank of windows, turned left up a pale flight of marble steps, left again, through two doorways, and into the Assembly Room. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The master armourer, or sergeant-at-arms, was a stiff, pale, bouncy gentleman with waxed moustaches. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such brisk fights or scuffles between children’s daemons were common, luckily, and no one took much notice, but Roger went pale at once. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the Witch saw that she was once more in the wood she turned pale and bent down till her face touched the mane of the horse. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The steel points of their pikes winked in the pale sunlight as the column approached. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The walls were a pale blue, with a border of elephants and giraffes. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The pale outline of the moon sits above me like something forgotten. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Blood ran down one cheek from a gash across his scalp, but the pale fight of dawn had put the glint of gold back in his hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She watches him adjust his watch in anticipation of their arrival, the pale silver hands scissoring into place. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Colored folks with pale skin—light enough to look white—but not white according to another one of the unspoken rules. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He was chubby and pale, and the other instructors didn’t seem to respect him much; driving the bus was, apparently, a chump job. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We looked like pale ghosts except where rivulets of sweat had washed away the lime. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too early even to do my chores, I drank the coffee black, sitting on my steps, watching the sky blush the palest pink. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ruth was a pale but complicated woman given to deviousness and ultra-fine manners. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wife of an Italian physicist used to watch him march slowly past their window, his pale, owlish face turned down toward the muddy path. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a pig-person face, a coarse skin that sagged at the jowls, little blue eyes and pale eyebrows, and a fat, pushed-back nose. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The envelope was a pale blue gray, small and square, and plastered with colorful stamps that took up one-third of its surface. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Another thought occurred to her, and she paled. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the store it had seemed beautiful, but with Lynn lying in bed so pale and sick, the streamer seemed all wrong. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

An old embroidered blue rug covered in geometrical white shapes wound down its length, and the razor-thin windows lining both its sides offered only strips of Lkossa’s pale morning light. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Venia and Octavia, a plump woman whose entire body has been dyed a pale shade of pea green, rub me down with a lotion that first stings but then soothes my raw skin. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

At the door, Donatelli's pale blue eyes searched Alfred's face, but the thin lips never moved. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got to the last piece, a pale lilac envelope. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wall dividing our side of the house from the bar was made from shiny sheets of fake wood panelling, but the rest of the walls were rough, splintery boards painted pale green. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

His name is as strange as he is, this new baby brother so pale and quiet and wide-eyed. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The severed arm was wriggling out of its tom sleeve, a pale snake with a black five-fingered head. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was about thirty, pale and thin, with glasses. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I did notice that while my stationery was either a pristine white with pale blue lines through it or pink with decorative edges, Martin's was always different. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It saves us from the bitter days of midwinter, when the darkness is broken for only a handful of hours and the sun is cold and distant, like the pale eye of a corpse. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The little man was there: a soggy spectacle on a pale and spattered horse. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pale mare is galloping through their siege camps. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the sunlight, their skin was no longer deathly pale; it was like new-fallen snow, bright and pristine. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were pale, her mouth stem, her voice a whip. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When he was done his face looked pale and drawn. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

You will die before you drink, his pale eyes seemed to say. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mundín opens the door, his face so drained and pale that I’m sure the police have somehow tracked me down and my family is in deep trouble. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She has never not seemed strange to me, like a creature from a fairy tale, pale as a ghost. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We looked tired and sleepy, and even though we’re all pretty good-looking, except Link, we were all pale and our hair was greasy. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had green eyes that stood out in her pale face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She is crocheting a scarf of pale blue wool. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The policemen found me pale blue and asleep. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

As usual Winston hardly looked at Julia as they drifted toward one another in the crowd, but from the short glance he gave her it seemed to him that she was paler than usual. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He was pale, pale and sweaty at the temples but perfectly composed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They stared at each other, the small boy with tousled, mousy hair, the pinched pale woman with not a silver hair out of place. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it seemed as if Dauntless had gained a little ground, but when Nailer looked again, always the pale ship on the horizon had grown. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

His small eyes were imbedded in pale flesh, eyes that seldom smiled despite the giggle and the grin that sometimes flashed across his face, especially when he knew he was reaching people. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flesh at the joint was pale blue and frozen solid. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Owls hooted and left their perches, spreading pale wings over the black ground. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You look pale, Amir,” she said from the couch, the same one her parents had given us as a housewarming gift for our first apart­ment. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He almost welcomed the coming of night, for then the world seemed less pale and empty. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then it fluttered up into the air, rising higher and higher until it was just a pale spot against the dark sky. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The breeze is fresh and cool, the pale hour makes our faces look grey. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have pale skin and dark hair, and my eyes are too small. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Homeboy is really pale, like he doesn’t leave his apartment nearly enough. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As she went down toward the Wood, the full moon hung like a giant, pale eye above her, unwavering in its gaze. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will never walk again, Bran,” the pale lips promised, “but you will fly.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Baubles,” said Ron confidently, when they reached the Fat Lady, who was looking rather paler than usual and winced at his loud voice. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“This is the worst yet,” Inigo said, and then he jumped back, because behind a pale glass case, a blood eagle was actually eating what looked like an arm. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They puffed slow streams of pale white smoke. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the boy returned to the cabin and told his mother, her lips grew long and thin and pale. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin and hair and lips are all as pale as dried-out cornstalks. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was fragrant with the smell of roasted meat and spices, and a slave girl with a turtle on one cheek was pouring pale green wine. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had dark brown hair and pale skin, but that was all that was remarkable about her. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Indoors it was dark—the wick, burning in its shallow saucer of oil, threw only a dim wavering light—but outside the land glimmered, sometimes pale and sometimes vivid, in the flicker of lightning. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hand was solid as a rock, and his dark Cealdish complexion was tanned even darker than usual, highlighting a few pale scars that ran over his knuckles and up his arms. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A pale form floated half-submerged upon the surface; in the shadows, it took the shape of a drowned man. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the bright light, his skin’s a pale, sickly green. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Still pale, still dreamlike in his beauty, but no longer the fantastic sparkling creature of our sunlit afternoon. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her face, normally pale and smooth as chalk, was pink and bloated with crying. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her palm was pale, almost diaphanous, and he could see the greenish criss-cross of her veins. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it’s…” He trails off, peering down at his menu, and I watch his face go pale. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

In this way they progressed across the mesa, through the pale lavender sageland. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too thin, too pale, the skin nearly transparent. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath the spread branches of the oaks the plants grew pale and tall, and on the hills the feed was smooth and thick. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was a painted likeness of a woman with big blue eyes and pale golden hair streaked by silver. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“The giants bane stands gold and pale, Won with pain from a woven jail.’ The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She caught her pale reflection in the darkened living-room window and looked away. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I can see her now, her ruined lace in the mud, pale arms exposed, reaching up, rising up as though she were clawing her way out of the grave. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin was as pale as clean ice, and dark circles ringed her eyes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun of that world was shining into this, making Lyra’s hands golden, melting the ice on Roger’s wolfskin hood, making his pale cheeks transparent, glistening in his open sightless eyes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The actress carried a leather tote bag over one shoulder, and she wore high heels, a black skirt, and a pale silky blouse. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On every gold clothed table was a glass bowl full of pale yellow flowers. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It must have been a little after midnight when Gollum woke up: suddenly they were aware of his pale eyes unlidded gleaming at them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But when Edna came back a few days later, pale and chapped at the nose, it was the same old same old. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Mist rose from her nostrils, and from pale hands naked to the night. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then, very gradually, part by part, a pale dangling individual stepped out of the wreck, pawing tentatively at the ground with a large uncertain dancing shoe. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

At his throat is a ruff of pale owl feathers. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“He is about five-foot-ten, thin, pale complexioned, and at first was very reserved in manner.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he left he kissed her bare feet with his pale blue lips and pressed on her a gift, a jar of ointment that he swore would let her see the spirits of the air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was no moonlight between the trees, but the unicorn glimmered and shone with pale light, like the moon, while the girl herself glittered and glowed as if she trailed a dust of lights. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Merope had got her dying wish: He was his handsome father in miniature, tall for eleven years old, dark-haired, and pale. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Her soft, pale hands were as deadly as Obara’s callused ones, if not more so. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At last, after hours of riding, far away on his right there came a single long streak of paler grey, low down on the horizon. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Her lips are pale, and her arms and legs are jerking. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At first only Dicey was looking back at her, into pale blue eyes that blinked behind plastic-framed glasses sitting high up on her nose. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He transfers the money in his bank account over to hers, and they have pale green checks with both their names printed in the corner. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Both were bright white with touches of aqua and pale lemon yellow. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

His face, twisted into a hostile frown, was curiously ugly: greasy hair, watery eyes, pale, lifeless skin. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He walked over to the nearest tree, a tall, pale, birchlike tree trunk, and kicked it, hard. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The heart tree stood before him, a pale giant with a carved face and leaves like bloody hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I look grave in it, my hair pin-straight and at least a dozen different bright colors, my skin so pale it looks ashen. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The blue cloth Muff had chosen was so pale it looked white. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The classic dark colors of those who worked at the Medica made her pale complexion seem even more so. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Henry, I noticed, was puffy and very pale. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Their banner bore twin towers, dark blue on a field of pale silver-grey. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her hands lie open on the pale blue blanket, palms up, fingers slightly curled. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Wart went as pale as Sir Kay was, and looked as if he were going to strike him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on, let’s go back,” Pithy urges, looking pale. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sunflowers floated in the apothecary bottles, their petals pale and bloated like drowned fingers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She ran, and Roger, who was watching wide-eyed as the pale daemons drifted out of the building, waded toward her through the thick snow. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Yet that very night, his brother came to Bran's bed-chamber pale and shaken, after the fires had burned low in the Great Hall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her hair was pale and colorless in the moon’s thin light. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Neumann One stops outside a four-story house with pale blue shutters. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Even their skin was paler, their hair more white than yellow. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could not take her eyes from the floor beneath her, though, across which the pale thing flopped and writhed, hunting for her. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

In a matter of days, though, they’d shed that pale yellow fuzz for tough new white feathers, and in just a few weeks, the chicken people, Perdue or whoever, would be back to collect them. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Wisps of pale mist threaded between the trees. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The young rainbow knight stared at this madwoman with pale and frightened eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The hall was dark stone, high ceilinged and drafty, full of drifting smoke, its stone walls spotted by huge patches of pale lichen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Pippin pressed forward as they passed under the lamp beneath the gate-arch, and when he saw the pale face of Faramir he caught his breath. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He wished he could feel Mrs. Hurd’s pale eyes, but she didn’t come to church. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The bunk above belongs to Frederick: a reedy boy, thin as a blade of grass, skin as pale as cream. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Over the past several days it had grown from a pale streak on the horizon to...well, to the Cusp, whatever the Cusp was. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Appalled, Shifre put her hands up to her own pale braids. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's pale and subdued, all his bluster gone. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In her lap, black Drogon hissed, and pale smoke rose before her face like a veil. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Ghost goes over to a cabinet and takes out a half-empty bottle of a pale greenish liquid and a stack of polished acorn cups. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He rode off with Venable and then, moving in out of the night to greet him, saw old Isaac Trimble, astride a pale horse, fiery old Isaac. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tall man with the pale eyebrows was getting out of a car. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s white with a pale honey tan and his face is starkly angular. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I drop my gaze to the ground, wishing my pale skin didn’t blush so easily. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Her outline was a pale blue, so Ophie decided to approach her and see if she knew where to find Clara. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Of hideous creatures growing up from pale foam. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There he sat, hour after hour, so intent that often his lips moved, and two spots of color burned in his pale cheeks, as though some secret excitement sprang from the pages. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Hauptmann lifts an hourglass from a shelf and sets it in a crate, and his pale silver-tipped fingers hang in the air. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His skin is pale and looks un- wholesomely tender, like the skin under a scab. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He widened his pale gray eyes and looked at me. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

But he became aware of the stillness when he glanced up to see Brother Leon’s face, paler now than ever, and the eyes glistening like sun-splashed pools. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You didn’t have to bury those books, right? They burned beautifully, like the very best firewood, and their pages—ah, they quivered like pale little fingers." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But when the pale red circle became a staring eye, I looked away. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a pale blue dress, a gossamer veil, and a scowl, gesturing at herself. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Joey just stood there, leaning against the pale green tiles of the wall, his arms folded, staring at me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“If he threatens you . . .” She looked pale, but she nodded. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Old Bear glanced up, searching for a glimpse of sky through the pale limbs and red leaves of the weirwood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I stammered something about the old ladies at the fruit stand, and Mrs. Dodds, and my mom stared at me, her face deathly pale in the flashes of lightning. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It's made from bone, she realized, running a thumb carefully along its pale white edge. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The pot was soot-black and the feeble flames that licked its sides showed pale pink and bordered with black, like flames in mourning. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was looking pale, cutting his eyes between me and Mr. Brunner, like he wanted Mr. Brunner to notice what was going on, but Mr. Brunner was absorbed in his novel. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In dreams his pale bride came to him out of a green and leafy canopy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There was a reflection of Judith’s excitement in his own pale face. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He took one look at me and got as pale as an olive-skinned man can get. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can offer you almost anything, dark ale, pale wine, spiced cider, chocolate, coffee ” Chronicler raised an eyebrow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Crouching down, she crumbled some dried leaves into it, two pinches from this bag, one from that, and added three drops of a pale yellow oil. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

At the top of the page, in pale curly letters, were the words Abigail Ellis. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Through the louver in the roof, above the thin wisps of issuing smoke, the sky showed pale and blue. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“A year went by. Two,” the pale, gray-eyed abbot went on. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The events, even the important ones, may have trooped by faceless and pale. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was appalled by the rushing emptiness of the night, by the black foam-flecked water heaving beneath them, by the pale face of the moon, so haggard and distracted among the hastening clouds. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held out his wrists, pale side up, exposing the traceries of veins so that Thyon would be sure to take his meaning. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His skin was pale leather, his beard cropped so short that it might have been painted on. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was a large, pale American man who bought the store’s cheap-style clothes and sent them overseas. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a short time before the sun slips below the horizon, a pale white moon rises, making things just visible enough. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

His face was turning pale green, the colour of sour apples. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It most certainly isn’t!” said the pale witch indignantly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But they marched up like a phantom company, grey distorted figures in a mist, only dreams of fear with pale flames in their hands. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He was lying on the boards, ashen, his lips pale and dry, shivering. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of pastel icing, pink candles burning in the pale November afternoon light, and there is a sense of shame and failure. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He found he could hide from daylight and moonshine, and make his way swiftly and softly by dead of night with his pale cold eyes, and catch small frightened or unwary things. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Whatever satisfaction I had in hearing him admit that I was right, paled when I saw his alarm. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

They turn paler in the winter, when the hens are not in the pasture. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She takes a quick glance and turns pale. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She still looked shaky and pale, but her mind was now obviously engaged in the problem at hand. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In his great need he drew out once more the phial of Galadriel, but it was pale and cold in his trembling hand and threw no light into that stifling dark. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The slumbering village was silent, and as Minli crept into her home the pale goldfish greeted her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

His skin looks tan, not pale like I’d assumed it would. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“All right,” said Malcolm, finding the sharpest knife in the drawer and pulling several sprout stalks across the table in the pale February sunlight. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Dust clouds settled slowly, depositing a pale sheet on the Tunisian rug. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It happened again: a swatch of pale light, like a shadow made of moonlight, darting through the dark toward the woods. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A slot of pale light peeped from under the last door on the corridor. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Dawn was just breaking the sky into pale gray, illuminating the floating docks and the distant mist-shrouded structures of drowned Orleans. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He looked thin and pale, and constantly blinked his eyes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then I looked over at Thalia and saw how pale she’d gotten. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I scrub the spot on my right foot for at least a minute, but when I splash water over it, the spot is still there, so pale it almost glows. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It’s soft and newborn pale after the summer retreat from the sun. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His pale lashes reveal the world behind his hazel eyes, and that world is trembling, dangling, like a lone bright planet in dark space. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Thin and pale is exactly how I want to be. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Curly hair as pale as spun straw spilled over his shoulders, and eyes like icicles touched on the crowd of villagers for a heartbeat each. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The pale warriors strode forward and dragged Taran and Gwydion from the hall. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he stumbled against Frodo, who was standing lost in thought, looking at the pale lights. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Their pale complexions blushed with an iridescent splendor that made them look almost magical. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The pale figures pulsed faintly; she could imagine that they were nothing more than afterimages, like the glow left by a bright fight in your eyes, after the fights go out. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Snow fell around him, pale and silent, keeping its own counsel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Though the light of sunset is orange, creeping across the floor and illuminating my face from below, I have never looked paler; the circles under my eyes have never been more pronounced. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I noticed with envy that she had escaped drastic coiffuric ministrations; her pale, silvery-blond hair hung down her back in two neat braids. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She was more beautiful than before, with eyes that seemed to have darkened as her skin glowed paler. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The guard was in his twenties, pale faced and puzzled. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The darkness was almost complete, and they could see nothing much beyond their hands’ stretch; but Gollum’s eyes shone pale, several feet above, as he turned back towards them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The only way a man could know that day had come was because the fog turned pale. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The queen wore a gown of sea-green silk, trimmed with Myrish lace as pale as foam. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The bard, looking pale and uneasy, nevertheless prepared to stand his ground. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were pale blue and his head was completely bald. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Unchain Reek and take him with you,” Ramsay growled at Sour Alyn, but his father waved a pale hand and said, “No, leave him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Beyond the little house, to the right, the expanse of fields was pale with littered husks and broken stalks. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When she saw the man, she went pale. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He gestures to the wall where a portrait of the family hangs—Mr. and Mrs. Spencer and their two little ones, their pale faces staring out at us. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Poor, dead boys in army uniforms from every era, their pale skin even whiter in death, clung to bridges and passenger cars, their grasping fingers reaching out for the memory of life. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Friendlily, because he felt well-disposed toward the world—his setting had been at D—he patted her bare, pale shoulder. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Every day she wears the same outfit: black slacks with a nylon blouse—alternately beige, charcoal, or pale blue. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

What began as traces of oxidation in the corners of her eyes and in the folds of her flowing copper hair have spread across her, so that her sheen has dulled into pale acceptance. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Little colored girl say to the little white girl, ‘How come your skin be so pale?’ The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Desdemona was in a pale white nightgown, the bedcovers pulled up to her waist, and in her lap sat one of her Turkish atrocity fans. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He smiled, but his face looked weary and pale, the way it did when he’d been up all night grading Latin papers. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The acolytes were clad in robes of pale yellow and bright orange, priests and priestesses in red. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Howard blushed a little, his white freckly face turning pale pink. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It was a pale brown sugar, not dark brown like the maple sugar Ma used for every day. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone’s eyes were now on Lupin, who looked remarkably calm, though rather pale. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

In the dim light, her face was ghostly pale, her eyes colourless. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When the pale but striving sun has lifted the gray morning mist, Count Durufle and the bishop arrive. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

From his cap to his boots, his clothing was inky black, and his pale face seemed lined with cares. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He would be handsome if he weren’t so sick: he’s thin and pale; he looks as though the life is being sucked out of him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was immensely pale, she noticed as he opened his mouth to say something, but Celaena continued down the hall. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A pale white hand slapped against the darkened glass of the van’s rear window. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“The pale mare was bloody from his spur.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We grew cantaloupes that turned out pale and tasteless. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her mouth goes slack and her face pales. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The Minotaur pursued, and of course he caught them, each one, and devoured her bloodily, and dragged her pale, defenseless body deeper into the maze. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mami looks a little pale as she switches back into the driver’s seat. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Biter preferred to grab the men behind the head and under the chin and crack their necks with a single twist of his huge pale hands. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His legs were pale and skinny, and his manhood flopped about ob-scenely as he chased after his horse. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were still drooped from sleep, and her pale brown hair stuck up all over her head like a squirrel’s nest on a winter branch. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

With her pale skin and white-blond hair she all but disappeared into the thin curtain that had been pulled around my bed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They glimmered in the candlelight, pink and pale green and silver. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As for the three nephews, those brave free men had remembered urgent business elsewhere at the first sound of the pale mare’s hooves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The scythe wiped her blade on a chamois cloth the same pale lavender as her robe, and that’s when Citra lost control. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Valerie pushed aside her black bang and indicated two pale marks, one on either side of her forehead, as if at some time she had started to sprout horns, but cut them off. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She’d never been terrified by the dark red eyes in the abnormally pale face before me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In another life, she might have believed he was coming to rescue her, a shining savior with golden hair and eyes the pale blue of northern glaciers. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Lifting the tapestry of the doorway with a pale hand, the ghostly creature in half-armour, its unarmed elbow in a sling, stood on the threshold. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liana’s face was pale, her dark eyes were round and huge, and her mouth was turned down at the corners. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Old brown smelly water began coming out, but soon it got paler and paler, and Mother had them empty the reservoir of ordinary water and put rainwater in it. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

His pale blue eyes revealed nothing of the thoughts behind them. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Its thin white light lit up the faces of the rocks and drenched the cold frowning walls of the cliff, turning all the wide looming darkness into a chill pale grey scored with black shadows. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She is skinny and pale and often has a cough. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was a perfect leg, pale, smooth, small enough to be a child’s. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She looked up, her pale lips curving into a small smile. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There are lots of pictures of the handsome President Kennedy and his pretty wife, Jackie, who looks a little like my beauty-queen aunt, only paler and less made up. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She looked paler and thinner, but never better—not to me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Lyra went and looked, and came back at once, looking pale. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Holly resisted the urge to punch the pale human again, turning instead to Butler. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

All around them lights glimmered through the mists, a hundred candles pale as shrouded stars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He turned, his glasses pale bronze in starlight. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Yarrow,” she said and set some pale yellow next to the deep brown. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had the same pale, beautiful features as the rest of them. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The inside of the church is painted white, though the paint has faded somewhat, and in the late evening light it looked pale gray. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

While the precise nature of his ailment was kept secret, Alexei continued to be a pale, sickly boy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

None of the people seated underneath this singular sight was looking at it except for a pale young man sitting almost directly below it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Aragorn looked at the pale stars, and at the moon, now sloping behind the western hills that enclosed the valley. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Everything is so gray and pale and lifeless now. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

There they were, fat and skinny, pale and freckled, clumsily putting on socks or pulling up unbecoming underwear. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She winked at Lord Garnel, and he paled, knocking over his goblet of hot cocoa and ruining the papers before him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Maddy looked pale when she left the room, and even paler when she came back. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Finally they stood by the lighthouse, exhausted, surrounded by water on three sides, pale green in the harbor, azure behind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny’s face got pale as he read it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Northward beyond the dwindling downs the land ran away in flats and swellings of grey and green and pale earth-colours, until it faded into a featureless and shadowy distance. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As I fixed pearls in her hair and brushed carmine on her pale cheeks, the queen was impassive and did not meet my eye. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There were perhaps a hundred in all, in ragged rows of pale gold down which Betty’s metal spatula dug and scraped and turned. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mom was wearing a pale blue sweater and a string of pearls. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, everything ahead of him was shrouded in mist, but the greyness of the sky was a bit paler. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He liked to wear jackets with large brightly-coloured checks and he sported ties that were usually yellow or pale green. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Howard’s face turned pale as a ghost and his eyes flicked down at the ground. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And gave us a paper bag with one pair of lemon shoes and one red and one pair of dancing shoes that used to be white but were now pale blue. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel a hollowness in his legs now; he could see the world beginning to pale. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I clicked the green button to describe our seasons, and then the pale blue one to explain that our president was Bill Clinton and our vice president was Al Gore. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

At the same time there was despair in his eyes, for the risen sun was reddening even Mrs. Harker’s pale face. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

As far as he could see, no one else’s potion had turned as pale as his. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The room was cold, its cement walls whiter than I remembered, the window shaded by a breadfruit tree, its large leaves shedding pale reflections against the ceiling. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When he returned he smelled sour, and his face was damp and very pale; but he seemed composed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The whole of Miss Honey's pale and pleasant face blushed a brilliant scarlet. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in Roman style—his dark hair close-cropped, his pale, angular face clean-shaven. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His flame lit the pit, pale gold shot through with red and orange, and the stale air exploded in a cloud of hot ash and sulfur as the white wings beat and beat again. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She paused and took a drink, her face and blond-white hair all so pale in the moonlight. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Down in the Shadow Lands beyond Asshai, they say there are oceans of ghost grass, taller than a man on horseback with stalks as pale as milkglass. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We went on, avoiding the broken bottles as now the spilling kerosene splashed into the pale spilt milk. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fadi caught Ike staring at him, Ike’s pale gray eyes narrowed. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He left that place and he never went back; and late at night when his mother was gone, he cried because he saw the mound of pale yellow sand in a dream. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

His voice ceased and I saw the strands of pale blue smoke drifting across the mirror and heard the electric lighter snap back on its cable into place behind the back of the seat. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a frost in the air, and the sky was a pale clear blue. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But he looked terrible lying there on the damp wooden floor of my boat, his face pale as a sheet, his eyes half shut and his lips as blue as a fresh bruise. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I assumed she was crying, but when she brought the cloth down to her lap, she just looked pale. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

For an instant Sam stood his ground, his face as round and pale as the moon behind him, his mouth a widening O of surprise. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“He’s fainted,” said Hermione, who was also rather pale; she no longer looked like Mafalda, though her hair was still gray in places. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was a pale winter evening, and their breath clouded in the cold air as they walked with their arms interlocked down the street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The gently looping script was pale gray on the creamy paper, too faded to make out in the dim room. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Next morning, Ma would take out the round, pale yellow cheese, as large as a milk pan. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pastor did not say what the worse was, and Mama pressed her lips into a pale pink line at the pastor’s words. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I open the door for them, and Tressa scrunches up her tiny, pale face as she enters. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

My hair is blond like hers; we are both pale and stern-looking. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were an odd, pale color somewhere between blue and green, their hue depending on the color of her hair ribbon. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

You can believe we sisters wailed and paled, whining to go home. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Bobby Joe’s pale eyes flickered, then swiftly assessed the faces of the men confronting him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks paler than usual today and his shoulders are slumped forward a little, but still he’s moving. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the church, row upon row of snowy tombstones protruded from a blanket of pale blue that was flecked with dazzling red, gold, and green wherever the reflections from the stained glass hit the snow. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a long black cloak, and his face was as pale as the snow glistening on his shoulders. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He stood in a pool of shadow by a bookcase, plump, pale- faced, round-shouldered, clutching a crossbow in soft powdered hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I studied my father, sitting on the pale gray living room sofa in his blue striped pajamas. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The python regarded him with pale yellow eyes, and Leo had a feeling it was not set to idiot mode. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And at times relatives spoke scornfully of pale, white skin. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's wearing a pale yellow T-shirt and the way she's leaned over, I can see a little of the small of her back. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

If Jerome had told the truth, and fiends had pink eyes and pale skin and evil, wrinkled hearts, then these men and women surrounding William now were, without any question, fiends. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She had pale blonde hair and a rodent-like quality to her face that was most apparent when she looked suspicious, and eased when she smiled. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Its body is smooth and pale grey, it has bulging round eyes on top of its head and four spindly legs with enormous flat feet. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was pale in the southeast, and the air was suffused with a gray mist, through which the gyptians moved like bulky ghosts, loading sledges and harnessing dogs to the traces. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, we knew our affection would revive when we saw one another on the dock the following June, salt spray in the air, pale sun glinting off the water. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

A full moon rose in the pale evening sky and glowed with a rich white inner light that brought to mind, but perfectly, the creamy inside of an Oreo cookie. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And he became as pale as a dried banana skin. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are gone, left in cars that came for them, driven by pale Americans in white uniforms with gold braids on their shoulders and on their caps. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The moon, now waxing round, filled the eastern sky with a pale cold sheen. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She spent more time than usual on her makeup, too—blending the foundation to a shade more pale than ghostly, going lighter on the kohl. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He still looked pale as he folded the paper on his lap, creased it carefully in half, and set it on the table next to his chair. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The scar showed, pale and puckered, on his right temple. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the east, the first pale light of day suffrised the sky above the river. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The dress we choose for me is a pale lime green—the only one like it in the store. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The returning soldiers carried the only booty available in the squalid town: the pale golden leaves of “bright” tobacco. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Gazing into the next case was an elderly man in a pale suit, who smelled sweet. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But why?” asked Shifre, her pale face taking color from the question. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You wait! It’s the turn of the wild beasts. Now we’ll really see something! Aren’t you enjoying it?” he added, looking at her pale face and clenched hands. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Nothing had ever been so welcome as that glimpse of land, that pale sand beach, the cliffs above. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Looking down, Bran glimpsed pale flesh where the wool of his leggings had parted. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She tried, but her face turned pale again. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

When she saw our faces, her own became as pale as death: for a second or two her eyes were closed as if she were in secret prayer; and then she said cheerfully:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“We need some medicine!” he shouted, pointing at Lyra, who lolled pale in Alice’s arms. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Beneath the shadow of the cowl, her eyes burned like pale red candle flames. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was now dark and the falls were pale and grey, reflecting only the lingering moonlight of the western sky. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She had the heavy black makeup thing going on, shoe-polish black hair, black clothes, black boots, pale skin. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Its shell was so pale that she could see the mess of the inner workings. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The result was what Johnny White called “a small riot,” as German fans crowded around them trying to get a glimpse of what they half believed to be members of some pale northwestern tribe. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But when she did, something caught her eye—a glimpse of something pale, something white, glowing in the dark recesses under the couch. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her brow was beaded with perspiration now, her mouth was slackly open, and she was still paler than she had been in the dining room. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter if she’s pale or tanned, if her hair is black or brown or red or blond. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the shadow of the First Keep was an ancient lichyard, its headstones spotted with pale lichen, where the old Kings of Winter had laid their faithful servants. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The walls were pale yellow, made of octagonal stone blocks framed by redwood siding along the roofline. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He blinked, forgetting Jon for a moment as he noticed how the photographer had captured a bright orange and black clown fish nestled in a pale sea anemone. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She drew a bonelight from her pocket and gave it a shake, casting a pale green glow over the pipe. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Angela chose a pale pink dress that draped around her tall frame nicely and brought out honey tints in her light brown hair. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was scrubbed so clean, his pale skin seemed to glow. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their black lipstick and pale makeup was pretty cool, Seven could admit. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was a chilly morning after the night’s rain, and the sun hung in the sky like a pale coin lost by someone high up in the clouds. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her face was very pale, the bones small and fine. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He passed Filch in the doorway; Filch’s pale, wild eyes looked straight through him, and Harry slipped under Filch’s outstretched arm and streaked off up the corridor, the book’s shrieks still ringing in his ears. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Bruises mar the pale skin of her arms. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When Max came Bigger saw that his face was pale and drawn. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled off one of her gloves—they were these beautiful, fuzzy, pale yellow gloves—and she yanked a ring from her finger. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He could hear her breathing rapidly and her face was paled out and her eyes were fastened wide. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Away down below single file on the path comes a woman with four girls, the pale doomed blossoms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This picture was mostly dark, with just a few pale brownish rays of light streaking across. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Lou, who was so tired he’d let Rob carry his pack, staggered into camp looking pale and distraught, muttering, “I’m finished. I’m finished. Completely out of gas.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Liam’s tanned face had gone porcelain pale, his mouth hanging open in an almost comical way. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The underlying color was dark, almost black, but the surface was paler, as if it had been ground down or worn by crushing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Shortly after his return to consciousness, the albino appeared, bloodless, with skin as pale as dying birch. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Melissa with her cheeks dusted with fine, pale brown hairs that could be seen only in the light of the sun. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Now, in the pale light of the half-moon, he took a moment to survey them. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

His father’s pale skin gleamed with rain water and yet still he didn’t move. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

At his feet upon the steps sat a wizened figure of a man, with a pale wise face and heavy-lidded eyes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Her skin was pale as chalk and her eyes puffy with big, dark bags underneath. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Bits of pale gold were flying among delicate frosty-white flakes of cloud, and over to one side the rim of the morning sun was coming up red as blood. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was calmer now, and his cheeks were pale again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never particularly noticed my dad’s moods, but he was looking kind of pale and tense. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe because the words were so startling as they issued from this pale and inoffensive looking little man. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

No longer pale and stricken, her eyes were bright. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Because she was heavily sedated, Pita slept through the lancing and compressing and didn’t come back around until Abuelita Remedios was done wrapping her leg with a pale thin gauze. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A fine mist rose from the pale pebble, slowly at first, then faster and faster. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

When I parted them just a moment ago, the light outside was still very pale and something of a mist was affecting my view of the baker's shop and chemist's opposite. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The other was fair, as fair as can be, with great wavy masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Her dark hair and eyes looked even darker against the pale yellow. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That when one thing went away, just the pale ghost of it remained. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

His pale eyes were frosted with sun glare and his lips scaly as snakeskin. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a little pea vine that grew wild all over the hills during wet winters and bloomed pale lavender in the spring. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had his mother’s dark head and his father’s pale, blue-tipped body feathers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

No wonder Captain Smith is unafraid of these pale, weak gentlemen and their threats. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She looked over at me with these pale blue eyes that you could tell had a lot going on behind them. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see the loaves of bread on the counter in the pale, snowy morning light. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked almost solid now—a pale bearded king with cold eyes and tendrils of Mist coiling off his robes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The larger of the two—and he was quite large, well over six feet—was dark-haired, with a square jaw and coarse, pale skin. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She was a very pale child, dressed in what seemed to be spider’s webs, with a circle of glittering silver set in her blonde hair. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Tiny clouds were drifting by, pale as a heron's feathers, ruffled like acacia flowers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The text had been sliced to unreadable bits, but Lexie recognized the pale pink of it at once—the discharge form from her visit to the clinic. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The dye had stained the skin on her forehead a pale gray, giving her a shadowy second hairline. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a virtue to have paler skin than most Iranians, not to mention hair that was several shades lighter than my family members'. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

His pale eyes accentuated his look of a sailor and his small mustache looked like the fur of a squirrel. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Like hell you are,” she whispered, her face pale in the shadow of the pines. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In October or November 1532, the victors stopped outside the small city of Cajamarca, where they learned that pale, hairy people who sat on enormous animals had landed on the coast. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Carefully folded, a silk shirt, faded pale and creamy—except at the seams. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blackness, like ink, spread over the pale cloth. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was a two-storied building covered with pale green asphalt shingles. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the pale light he could see the little waves break over her, and her skirt floated about and clung to her legs as the water receded. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, when they were frozen so stiff they could hardly move their fingers anymore, the wall of the Isola Segreta, pale and gray in the moonlight, appeared out of the night. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me she had come back to school in the fall looking pale and thin. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Look at her skin, too pale. And her feet, the bottoms are soft.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you a jumper?” asks a pale man sitting in the next chair, drinking something blue and possibly radioactive. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Fear is pale as a dead man’s face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’ve been so preoccupied that I’ve just now noticed Miss Andersons companion, a sickly pale man who is draining his third glass of wine. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He had pale green, mottled skin, and was clearly bawling at the top of his lungs. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I turned and looked back the way I’d come: a prickle of marble spires, dim mausoleums, pale in the growing darkness. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Purvis noted that the president's breathing was weak and his skin pale and clammy. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The scarlet tunic, with its pale blue facings, the white crossbands on his chest, the white breeches, made him feel like a different person. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must be as thin and pale as these bones now. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He had nice pale blue eyes and a reddish complexion. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She is speechless and her pale skin is as white as the flesh of the raw-cut parsnip. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They were on their backs, and their faces looked deathly pale; and they were clad in white. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ron was rather pale and looked as though he was about to be sick. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Her finger- and toenails were polished a shade of pale pink. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Prince Joffrey was pale as he began his very different version of events. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The water near the bank was a clear, pale green, cool over my ankles, and the pebbles at the bottom were dappled with sunlight. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She looked paler than she had before, and she moved slowly down the stairs as if she’d finally noticed her load up front. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Even their faces looked the same, somehow ... which was passing strange, since one had skin as dark as ebony, while the second was as pale as milk, and the third gleamed like burnished copper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There's a full, white moon, so pale it looks like I can see through it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy looked up at me, his pale eyes wide. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The streetcar, with pale light pouring from its windows, rumbled to a stop. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, those firsts would pale in comparison with Johnson's new assignment: The president wanted a plane that could fly high enough to avoid Soviet radar, and far enough to cross the Soviet Union without refueling. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And so skinny and pale. He doesn’t even have to wear a KKK sheet. He can just go to a rally like that, and he’ll fit right in.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The other women were blondes dressed in pale blue, their matching gowns suggesting their rank as ladies-in-waiting. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She saw her share of bare skin, too—brown, not blue—and watched the pulse of unprotected throats and tender, pale wrists. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And hard as Meggie tried to see something sinister about him, she couldn’t, not in the pale morning light. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Face pale and eyes beginning to brim with tears, she gritted up a mouthful and took a drink of water to wash it down, grimacing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they would see a few weeds struggling from some crack in the rock or a splotch of pale lichen, but there was no grass, and they woe above the trees now. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It whistled, a pale blur, and then hit the stone with a loud crack, blocking his way. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

For the first time I saw his eyes were a strange shade of pale brown, as if they had been dulled by some deep sadness that the years had turned into anger. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Beth did look, and turned pale with delight and surprise, for there stood a little cabinet piano, with a letter lying on the glossy lid, directed like a sign board to “Miss Elizabeth March.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then Mother was pale, her lips drawn tight as she glared at me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All he could see were her eyes, the pale glow of her white skin. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

My youngest sister is exotically pale, almost ashen. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the purples blushed faintly pink, others were tinted pale blue, but there was no other color. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

One hand hung over the edge of the mattress, a pale frail fleshless thing, but warm when she touched it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Will, do you think he’s gone crazy?” she whispered, her face pale. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In the pale dawn light, the young knight looked as though he were sleeping. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Miguel was a pale student, with feverish eyes, faded trousers, and miner’s boots, in his final year of law school. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it was nerve-racking having everyone see so much of her, and she was glad when she spotted her mom’s pale red head weaving through the crowd. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The she-elk was bigger than life, painted in pale lavender clay on the south face of sandstone, along the base of the cliff. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her face was pale and thick with flesh. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the pale shapes detaches from the others and swims toward her, but my shadow in the water makes it hesitate. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Passengers cursed and ran, seagulls came from all over the harbor and Mam hung limp and pale on the ship’s rail. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Is married too long to that pale, skinny woman. Lose all his blackness.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against the deep red leather her skin seemed even paler. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Goose pimples rose on her pale skin as the coldness crept up her thighs and kissed her lower lips. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As they drink their wine and eat their meal, he admires the light on her face, the faint pale hairs that shine against the contours of her cheek. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of those bright hazy days with no horizon, when the sea and the sky melt together in a pale blue infinity. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There's no crying in his voice, you can't hear it there, but sure enough the tears are all over his face, slick and shiny in the pale, pale light. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

She looked a little more pale and tired than usual. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Malfoy went pale and jumped backward, looking wildly around for Moody, but he was still up at the staff table, finishing his stew. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then Herod Sayle appeared, dressed in an immaculate pale gray silk suit. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The hallway is long and pale jWe turn a corner and walk down a second one exactly like the first. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was beyond the pale, even for Minya, to keep a dead child as a pet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You were so pale you scared me when you came in. You’re a stranger?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He rambled on with this fraudulent recollection while Henry, pale and ill, endured his prods and backslaps as a well-trained dog will tolerate the pummeling of a rough child. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She sped to the abandoned meadow, now pale green with raspberry and young hawthorn leaves. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

On the shelves were the books bound in a cardboard-like material, pale, like tanned human skin, and the manuscripts were intact. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The pale yellow lights of the parking lot were too bright. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was puffed up, so much purple on her pale skin. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I caught a glimpse of midair Cade, a gangly pale missile diving headfirst through the rain, hands stretched toward the center of the muddy river. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“He kept muttering about wisdom’s child, the Mark of Athena, and the giants’ bane standing pale and gold. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She’s overdressed for a day spent with toddlers, maybe a bit too professional-looking in her pale yellow skirt and white cotton blouse, her thick, dark brown hair twisted into a low bun. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Through the open visor of his helm, a face pale and piggy peered up. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Struggling with her steak, Mary Anne looked hunched and bruised beneath the pale blue dress that covered her delicately, as though the dust had been scraped from a butterfly wing. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picks Evie up out of her pram to give her a cuddle, and I catch sight of myself in the hallway mirror, my face pale and my lips stained dark red with wine. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caleb flips the light switch, and pale light fills the room, reminding me of Erudite headquarters. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He stood up slowly and looked down at the dead witch, at her rich black hair, her flushed cheeks, her smooth pale limbs wet with rain, her lips parted like a lover’s. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Straight overhead was the tree, with its circle of limbs radiating out from the great, pale trunk. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her blue eyes, so pale before, sharpened and she spat out, “What’re you looking at me like that for?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On this lifeboat, the wine of life was served in pale golden cans that fit nicely in the hand. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

His skin was a pale yellow color, his eyes very dreamy and dark. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They stretched taller, and the soft, pale bark darkened, roughened. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin was pale as water except for two flame-colored spots on her cheeks. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

That room on the far right is Mummy’s; there are her pale blue curtains. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“But not like us. Their skin is pale, and many of the men have beards. Their clothing is different.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She had turned pale and her voice shook. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The officer led Blake into one of the only buildings standing, where "a big, burly man of about forty or forty-five with a pale complexion" greeted him in Russian. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The only signs of green were the pale patches of lichen strangling the living rocks on which they grew. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

My nail-bitten fingers twinned with his, pale and webbed with purple veins. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I followed her out the door and watched her tromp down the road, the pale soles of her feet blinking back at me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My nightmares and chewed fingernails pale by comparison. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He lit the first one now and led the way down into the dark, holding the pale flame up before him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

With the long hair, the beard, and the pale white color he looked quite wild, but also, I have to admit, rather poetic. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

At its center was a vast shimmering lake that glowed with a pale phosphorescent light. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A man dressed in rags pushed a large cart that already contained two corpses—a child and young woman, their skin tinted a pale yellow. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reed continued, watching for a flicker of recognition in Clarian’s pale face, “They tell this story ’round Liccaro, when the sun goes down in the dusty sky. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It had curly black fur, but when you got close you could see that the skin underneath the fur was a very pale yellow, like chicken. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Behind it, the sky was starting to lighten into a pale lavender, the clouds almost soft looking now. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Except that he looked pale and shocked, Ron was indistinguishable from Crabbe, from the pudding-bowl haircut to the long, gorilla arms. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I glanced sideways at the beautiful boy, who was looking at his tray now, picking a bagel to pieces with long, pale fingers. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, Mother. I guess because he’s so pale and all,” said the girl. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The whole apartment was painted pale yellow, except for the ceilings, which were smoky gray. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she was there with a portly middle-aged woman with pale skin and dyed red hair. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was pale and looked tired and skinnier than he had the last time they’d seen him. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

We were all shivering, our fingertips pale and wrinkled. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Her eyes had dark smudges around them and her face was pale white, her lips dark red. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her pale blue eyes stared unblinkingly at the lake. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Away in the east the evening light lay pale upon the dim lands of distant plain and wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The last thing I saw as my head hurled down the hall was Charles leaping to his feet, eyes wide, face pale. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Gussie was indeed a fearful sight nursing that way and he looked not unlike a man with his foot on a bar rail, smoking a fat pale cigar. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pale golden stream of light appeared across the floor, reaching almost to the bed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mo went pale when I told him about Mama and Baba being in intensive care. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

What a hot and strong grasp he had! and how like quarried marble was his pale, firm, massive front at this moment! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The man’s face was starkly pale, as if he hadn’t left the basement in weeks. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And inside the playpen is Penny, who doesn’t have her Colombian mother’s light brown skin tone, but is instead very pale like Christian was, except right now she’s red from screaming. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Beneath that mass of pale grey stone, the encircling army of Lord Stannis Baratheon looked as small and insignificant as mice with banners. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And as I sat there watching it all, Cade Hernandez, wearing nothing but a pale blue disposable paper jumpsuit, came up around the driver's side of the truck from somewhere in the darkness behind me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She pouted and took a tray, a pale green paper napkin, and a spoon. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Next to him stood a tall grey-haired man in a white linen suit and a pale yellow tie. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

What moon wasn’t already hidden behind clouds was blotted out now by trees, branches filtering its pale light to nil. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She was a slender woman with a pale, thin face and sunken cheeks. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

His face was pale; he moved his head like a man who has heard too loud a sound. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Rengen heard this, he grew pale and dropped his hammer to the ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I picture it spinning back at the Chancellor’s party, green and blue in their pale world. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The golden thread on the pale blue fabric still shimmered full of promise, and Bo had to touch the golden stars at least once every day. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I glance at the boy to my left, who was Erudite and now looks as pale and nervous as I should feel. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He had turned neither red nor pale, nor dropped the letter, nor stared in front of him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But today he stood alone by the window, face pale and eyes wide. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I see her there, so pale she might as well be translucent, sitting in a wheelchair. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Just like the ghost shrimp in the tank, she’s both beautiful...and horrifying, her veins glowing red and blue under pale skin. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mother and I sat on a pleated sofa of pale pink while Mother explained why we’d come. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His face was deathly pale, but his eyes seemed to plead with Victor to tell him that it wasn't true. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pill was the size of a pinhead, and it had a pale brownish color. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this, Constance’s pudgy, rosy cheeks grew redder still, so that her wispy blond hair seemed almost white in contrast, and her pale blue eyes shone bright as stars. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had blond hair, so pale it was almost white, hanging fine and straight down to his ears. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was higher than a big scythe blade and a very pale lavender above the dark blue water. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the only one who stood out, the only one who wasn’t pale with freckles and amber-colored red hair, the only dark brunette stain in every single family photo that lined the stairs. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They stood watching the pale gray flakes sift down out of the sullen murk. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He could see the tom veins in the dead man's wrist, iron worms in the pale flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Funeral banners swayed before her, and farther away stood two figures shrouded with the pale coarse clothes of mourning. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Helene goes pale, and the dark humor in her voice fades. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Gerald, tough, brown, and wiry, seemed almost gentle as he helped the fragile, pale child balance on the bicycle. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Norma was lighter, rust colored, and not as pale as Mami, whose skin was pink. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I believed him, not because of the pale gray of the sky, but because of the bustle of the NKVD. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

A figure—pale and slim, with a cloud of frosted hair. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Five pale red lines bloomed on the white cheek, glowing like fire beneath translucent stone. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dark skin of his face, which had been oddly pale just a minute earlier, had turned purple, his eyes rolled up so far in their sockets they looked like glowing white marbles. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She was staring straight ahead, quite as pale as he was, her long blonde hair hanging down her back, but beneath the table her slim fingers closed briefly on his wrist. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A pale sun rose and set and rose again. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It just sucks. Was it because my skin is dark? I love my skin! I love how I stand out in a crowd of paler people! It makes me feel just really...really...proud!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Miss Lupescu’s lists were printed in pale purple ink on white paper, and they smelled odd. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Perry, his eyes glitteringly immense in a face now almost phosphorescently pale, studied the ceiling; and presently, after placing a picture postcard on the patient’s bedside table, the rebuffed visitor departed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hand flashed out, reaching for the handle—Cate’s pale, slender fingers, outstretched—only to pull away at its molten hot touch. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He glared at the mother in the rafters, who had gone suddenly very pale. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The second, in the turban, had his shirt off, and he was pale except where his sleeves would have ended and the skin was burnt pink. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Their skin turns pale, their limbs stiffen, at last only their eyes live—stubbornly. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light came grey and pale, and they did not see the rising of the sun. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Stars shone pale against bleached-bone heavens, and all the shadows died. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Richard disappeared into the vines and night screech of the jungle, a pale skeleton of a man fading into the blackness. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She nodded and chanted the chorus softly to herself: See a woman pale as snow? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The color in Our Lady of the Fighter Pilots’ shawl was pale blue that changed hues in the flickering of the beeswax candles. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was pale and looked as though he was about to cry. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The air held a damp chill, as if the sun that had given a pale, late-winter brightness to the streets in Newton had been too weak to penetrate the dense branches above the woods road. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I’d slept the clouds had blown away, and now the moon lit the surrounding countryside in pale silver light. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she thought about her father—that strange pale man in the silver-and-black suit. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Burton was short and pale, and his striped black-and-yellow shirt made him look like an unfortunate bumblebee. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

His pale skin glows in the little bit of moonlight, and I’m a bit scandalized to see that he’s naked from the waist up. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was a man, his skin pale and rotting. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The one by the window is a pale butter yellow. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s scrawny and pale, but his shriveled look has faded. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She looked through a glass- windowed door and saw Diana herself, tall and pale, but no longer thin. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

A girl’s face looked up at him, a pretty, pale girl with dark hair. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slim, sad girl who wore a crown of pale blue roses and a white gown spattered with gore could only be Lyanna. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A grisly pale thing with black fingers, it was, that twitched and stirred in its jar as if it were still alive. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Outside, Dill appeared even more wan and pale than usual under the blackening sky. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wide open and a pale blue. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The deep red eyes carved into the pale trunk still watched him, yet somehow he took comfort from that now. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Momma’s letters started off with pale pink envelopes that increased in intensity over the years to a bright fuchsia. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

His cheeks were pale and sunken, and bandages covered his wrists. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Irwin was a full professor at twenty-six and had the pale, hairless skin of a boy genius. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She knew that she was pale, and still shaken, with dark circles under her eyes, but the sun was warm and the leaves moved gently overhead, and Luke beside her lay lazily against the step. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were tall and pale, with white clothing and eerie, sparkling eyes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

At least ten times a day, she’d take the box out, re-arrange the fireworks and look long at the pale red tissue and white corded stem and wonder about how they were made. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hooded man lifted his pale moon face, and Jon slashed at it without hesitation. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Half of something, a quarter of something else, brown skin and black hair like his dead mother, but with weird pale blue eyes like his father. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

After they finished eating they sat outside the tent, under a moon so brilliant that it made the stars pale. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Coraline saw, or imagined she saw, three shapes, each as faint and pale as the moon in the daytime sky. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

There was no distinctive point about her on which he could fasten his attention, and his gaze glided from her pale brown hair to the stumpy outline of her feet beneath the cover. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

All that remained was a band of pale skin where the ring had been. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Enough so I can see the shape of the great aurochs on the pale wall. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

High on his left arm, a tattoo of a red cobra, fanged, coiled, and ready to strike, stood in stark relief to his pale, freckled skin. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had once been tanned dark from the sun, but without a clear day in months, her skin had paled. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

How could he fail to recognize the actor’s familiar, thick black hair, pale complexion, trademark mustache, and striking good looks? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The banker glanced up, to where the ice loomed vast and pale against the sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Socially Mack and the boys were beyond the pale. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dede held up the dainty oil lamp, its pale rose chimney fluted like the petals of a flower. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She warmed the pale white beeswax over a candle, poured it carefully, and watched as the eunuch stamped each letter with the direwolf of House Stark. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A twisted, pale figure writhing in agony, chest bare and hideous. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The King's Tower was before him, with its promise of warmth and a soft bed, yet Tyrion found himself walking past it, toward the vast pale palisade of the Wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The paramedic stared at the door with a face gone pale. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

His face crumbled inward, changing to something pale and wormlike. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Very carefully she began to tie the child’s halo of pale curls. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her face looked pale in the meager firelight. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Speed, strength, beauty, pale skin, eyes that shift color; and then Jacob’s criteria: blood drinkers, enemies of the werewolf, cold-skinned, and immortal. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It looks stubby and waxy like five pale fat worms attached to the palm. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night was not dark enough to hide what lay on the lawn outside: a shapeless mound of ashes, pale gray in the moonlight, gray as moth wings, gray as burnt paper. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We’d have a new apartment with pale cream carpets that never got dirty and modern wallpaper with no flowers. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Lombard had raised a big, pale hand. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It's hard to breathe when all the colors of his face are so rich and intoxicating—pale blue eyes, a honey tan, and dark chocolate hair. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Close up she could see there was a band of paler skin around his forehead, which his cap must have kept shaded from the sun. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was very pale, the creases deeper than ever, and his eyes looked blank and sunken. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glance back guiltily at Mom, who is pale and tired looking, trying to scrape a stain off her Waffle House uniform with her fingernail. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She glanced over his shoulder and caught the eye of a young nobleman in pale gray silk. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Jacob strolled to a nearby driftwood tree that had its roots sticking out like the attenuated legs of a huge, pale spider. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“And who are these sisters? What do they do?” said Alice, her face pale, her eyes blazing. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, room three is decorated in pale blues and seashells, and the window is opened a few inches so the sea air can come in, even in the cold. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He set his two large flat hands on his shrunken belly, and a pale green light came into his eyes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Even hard men like the Second Sons were terrified of mounting the pale mare. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then coming up, close to the stem, Frodo saw two pale eyes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Death, mounted on his pale horse, seemed to ride triumphant; there was but a step between the people in the city and the tomb. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Its pale light cast the shadows of the tall triangular merlons across the frozen ground, a line of sharp black teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Despite his pale and even delicate appearance, especially compared to the tanned and muscular Special Forces captain, there was something undeniably confident, even cocky, about him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

As I help him to sit up, he goes pale and beads of sweat break out on his face. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The bare electric bulb in the corridor illuminated the whole dormitory in a pale creamy glow. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The book Mo was reading that night was bound in pale blue linen. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Kaz’s mind stuttered and reeled, trying to explain what he was seeing as a cluster of mist became a cloak, boots, the pale flash of a face. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Rose, blushing and nervous, is wearing pale blue. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I turned and he was leaning toward me, his pale, glorious face just inches from mine. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

By morning they will be pale and green and their blood congealed and black. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were tall pale folk in linen and samite and tiger fur, every one a lord or lady to her eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His hair was long and burnished gold, and his pale blue eyes glinted like ice beneath a winter sun. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As he did so, his hood fell back, and Harry saw the look of revulsion on Worm- tail’s weak, pale face in the firelight as he carried the creature to the rim of the cauldron. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The dough bubbles, but the top is still pale. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

When Penelope saw the pale, wizened face in the darkness just outside the window, where no face had any business being—why, she recognized it at once! The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I didn’t look pale anymore; my skin had turned a healthy pink because of the oxygen flowing through my body. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He turned as pale himself as he caught him up in his arms and tried to stanch the wound. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped and paled when she saw the kitten suspended from the rope. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kapasi noted that this boy was slightly paler than the other children. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Come evening there were sliced hams, boiled eggs, and roasted larks stuffed with garlic and onions, with pale ales and Myrish fire wines to help in their digestion. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I continued playing but was unable to concentrate because I kept the corner of my eye on his restless hands, the elegant fingertips that danced against the pale blue fabric of his pants. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The path led them into a grey wood of thin, pale birch trees. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She and Akira picked out five apiece, pale greens and yellows and pinks. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The other mother was huge—her head almost brushed the ceiling—and very pale, the color of a spider’s belly. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

His pale white horse had galloped over waters, and thundered over land. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Like the floor,” said Njemile, and Moss looked down and realized that the pale linoleum had chipped away in so many places that it looked like an intentional pattern. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I guess because he’s so pale.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

They were a colorful blur against the pale flesh, a raised ax, a swinging machete. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Strands of hair, pale blond and black, clung to his brow, the rags of his tunic to his back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The edges of the pages were slightly roughened, and the paper was still so pale that every letter stood out clear and black. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

With her light skin, semiblond hair, pale seagull blue eyes, she could easily pass herself off as something other than a woman born and raised in East Harlem. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

When she looked up, his face was pale in the lamplight. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was not suffering yet from dehydration, so the liquid was pale in colour. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A torch had been thrust down into a crevice, its flames flying pale orange ban-ners when the gusts came. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The morning sky was streaked by thin grey clouds, but the pale red line was there behind them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jacobs shouted, his pale face red, his eyes narrowed in rage. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Isabelle Derby sat pale and quiet, her eyes cast down through most of the meal. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has thick eyebrows that don’t stop growing in the middle, and pale skin. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

So Cuckoo did, then, and she came back and she said, “He says he will have the little pale one who sleeps on the bed of the mistress.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It was a splendid fall; the leaves kept their bright burnt color well into November, and the sky turned a pale but pretty blue, like a robin’s egg. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

His palms were turned upside down and they were pale. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He looked slightly paler than usual, and his cold, black eyes glittered strangely. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I found him at his table, looking a little pale, but happy. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mina is fast asleep, and looks a little too pale; her eyes look as though she had been crying. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Its walls were a pale green and it ran the length of the house. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I watch myself, pale and terrified, walking toward one of the doors. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The masked woman had foretold the coming of the pale mare, was she right about the noble Reznak too? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She was pale and leaning on a table with both hands. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Jesper was supposed to wait until three bells,” said the pale boy. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

John Henry’s face went pale, and the hammer was in his hands in a blur. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The pale figure of a woman appeared at the northern gateway. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She looked pale and thin: she said she was not happy. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her face was pale and beaded with sweat. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you want me to get the nurse?” my mother asks, and her glowing face has been replaced by a pale, worried one. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

These pale petals were gathering in the wind like flocking birds— thousands of them, like a spring snowstorm. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The woman pulled back enough for someone’s flashlight to reveal her features—pale, wrinkly skin covered in horrible sores, oozing with pus. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

So the citizens of Oxford read the weather forecasts in the newspaper, and enjoyed the pale sun on their faces, and began to put their sandbags away. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I saw her in the pale light of the lantern on the table. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As they were swept aside the travellers could see, now very close, the pale foam of the River lashing against sharp rocks that were thrust out far into the stream like a ridge of teeth. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her face was pale and as wrinkled as a dhobi’s thumb from being in water for too long. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Help yourself, Tom,” said Hepzibah, “I know how you love my cakes. Now, how are you? You look pale. They overwork you at that shop, I’ve said it a hundred times...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I trudge along the base of the cliffs, watching the horizon pale as the sun rises. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He looks thinner and paler than he did before. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The star ran one pale forefinger up and down the silver chain that went between them, tracing the line of it about her slim wrist, and made no reply. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The world around them had disappeared from view, swallowed up by the night, but not far away a few pale rectangles glowed in the dark. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

‘You speak justly, lord,’ said the pale man sitting upon the steps of the dais. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“These are such lovely colors,” she said, running her hand over the pale lavender one at the top of the stack. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Clevinger was already on the way, half out of his chair with emotion, his eyes moist and his lips quivering and pale. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Looking around, he saw Neville’s pale, round face flat against the floor. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

When the guard brought Branwell into the visitors’ room, he still looked pale, but his glasses were not smudged now, and I could see his eyes. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were a pale green, flecked with gold. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He had a pale blue box of pills, but nobody was sick. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie could still see Kaitlin’s pale face and hear the way she told Z it was all going to be okay, even though her legs were crushed. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t yield much, but sometimes Osh painted a single yellow flower in a pale green marsh, and it was all the better for being just one. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Every one of them was chalky pale, the palest of all the students living in this sunless town. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He had a plain face, beardless and ordinary, notable only for his queer pale eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was gaunt, with limp blond hair and pale eyes deep-sunk in a bony face, and there was a dagger in his hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His fingers were slimy, coated in a pale ooze that was either melted skin or pus. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He blends into the background, the same way his features blend into each other—pale skin and hair and teeth and shirt—all yellowed shades of white. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man in a down jacket is using the paper cutter near the door, trimming a stack of pale blue cards. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

But all they could do was create a pale, crystalline imitation, perfect and cold. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nina’s face was frightened, pale even beneath her powder, but there was nothing Inej could say to reassure her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Standing behind him Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg which had just emerged pale and enormous from the dissolving night. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Presently her half-vision began to show her the pale forms that Mary was seeing in her dreams, and she adjusted her mind to resonate with them, as if she were tuning a string. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sun was down, and a cool pale evening was quietly fading into night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were young and old, fat and thin, dark skinned and pale, surrounded by thick curls or bald scalps....But all of the faces were twisted in terror, and that made them all look alike. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Once, she even thought she saw its pale church tower in a dark fold of the hills, and her heart beat faster though she knew that it couldn't possibly be Capricorn’s church. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Loose strands of black hair whipped around her pale face; there were spots of red on her wind-roughened cheeks. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She had silver eyes and skin as pale as paper, and the contrast with her hair, as dark and glossy as an espresso bean, caused people to describe her as striking, if not pretty. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was gripping a handful of pamphlets, and his gray suit and pale skin made the blood dripping from his head all the more vivid. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When Bast finally turned from the bar, Chronicler’s eyes widened perceptibly, and the color drained from his already pale face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Walls of pale violet, floor of red tiles. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance, Jesper could see the stacks of bills in palest Kerch purple, emblazoned with the three flying fish, row after row of them, bound in paper bands sealed with wax. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When they came into the living room, she looked up from the pile of pale blue fabric in her lap and smiled. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He mixed them together with a long spoon until the mixture was no longer the pale amber color of the whiskey and looked like water instead. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pale mare was inside the city walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But if he noticed he stared at his cousin with a warning in his tight, pale face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The deep red of plomms and the pale sand color of the beach itself, the black of the night sky and the green of the prairie. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The sun was setting, and it was as if someone had taken a brush with pink paint and made a streak across the sky, which was pale blue but getting darker by the minute. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The mother spread her arms in all directions to show how pretty and pale and blue-eyed the girl was. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He looked over at Teresa, about to say something, but stopped when he saw the expression on her pale face—-he’d never seen terror present itself so starkly. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were very pale green, and almost transparent where the sun shone through, he could see all the veins. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She drove an old, pale blue car to school every morning, rain or shine, snow or sleet, hail or wind. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her vision was blurring, but she could make out a pale, shiny scar on Kaz’s neck, right beneath his jaw. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was mean of me to treat her that way, and now she was looking at me, oh so helplessly, with her pale face and beseeching eyes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Turning, he caught sight of his own, pale mirror-reflection, as though in water. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Now, he watched the kid Renault, looking as if he was ready to faint with fright, his face pale and eyes wide with dread, and Archie having fun with him. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another face—pale, spectacled, with a small straw-coloured moustache. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

It’s still dark, but the eastern sky pales, and Veturius speeds his gait. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His hands were pale, with green veins and fingers that were like parasites, and he wore a solid gold ring with a round sunflower opal on his left index finger. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I find my mother sitting on the edge of her bed, still in nightclothes, staring out the window at a pale afternoon. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His eyes were gold instead of green, his face pale and cruel, not at all like Percy’s. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When she saw how pale he was, she pinched his cheek. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Silas produced a grey sweater the color of Bod’s winding sheet, a pair of jeans, underwear, and shoes—pale green sneakers. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She yawned then, and her pale orange mouth opened on a large darkness. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In front of the man is a lanky girl with pale skin and jet-black hair, and in front of the woman... Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He gazed at her, his pale face serious and searching. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mully had not been wrong; the old steward was trembling, his face as pale as the snows outside. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His face is pale blue, his eyelids almost purple, and translucent. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tall, it was, and gaunt and hard as old bones, with flesh pale as milk. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My mother’s face grew pale, and lines of deep concern furrowed her brow. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was an unusual looking white man, his face young, almost unlined, but his hair completely gray and his eyes so pale as to be almost colorless. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Their pale bodies did not seem real but were like costumes they were wearing as they played the part of her persecutors. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Their pale eyes no longer appeared to blur into their even paler skin. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hand squeezes the edge of the table, the knuckles pale. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When she woke, the pale light of morning was slanting through her window, yet she felt as sick and achy as if she had not slept at all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She came back a few minutes later, looking pale. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He has a hunted look to him: he’s shaken, pale, his skin slick with sweat. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would bend, and they would put out their small pale fingers and bounce them off my kinky curls. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about the pictures I’ve seen online, of people with vitiligo who have lost all their color, who turn the most delicate shades of pale. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Stella first poured the cold water on the wound, watching as the oozing blood turned pale pink. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Still, it is strange to see his pale, waxy skin, and his limbs stiff with death. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Scarlett’s bright clothes were covered in grime and cobwebs, and her dark face and hands were pale with dust. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Between that, studying for her classes, and the unusually long, wet winter, she had grown wan and pale and sometimes depressed, so she luxuriated in the fresh air and bright sunlight on the ferry. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His third night on the isle lightened to a calm, pale sunrise. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Waving, too, were the wider expanses of pale green cressweed; but these rippled with the current, lightly and quickly. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, the physical strength the work required paled beside the dexterity needed to rethread a shuttle quickly, or, heaven help her, tie one of those infernal weaver’s knots. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

To her left, at the foot of the steps, stood two drum-shaped iron braziers, rusty brown, with wood heaped up in them: pale, freshly cut firewood, log upon log. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His shoulder patch was a silhouette of Abraham Lincoln’s profile on a field of pale green. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Golds, light yellows deepening to vibrant orange, reds from the palest pink to the darkest crimson, greens, all shades, threaded in their intricate patterns, told the history of the world and its Rum. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The liquid was pale green, the color of Japanese green tea. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad pours pale batter over our waffle iron. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the heavy drapes and let the pale morning sun into the room. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was surprised to see a “pale and rangy fellow,” a blan like her, appearing totally at ease in a town where white people were not common. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It made her seem plainer, and her face was made up in pale colors that weren’t flattering either. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It also didn’t help that he could see how pale and drawn Emma’s and Finn’s faces were, or how they were weaving and stumbling just as badly as Chess. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His pale hands shook, and the almanac he held looked like a puppet dancing without strings. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Its pale yellow curtain flapped in the wind as if a ghost were caught in it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He left his clothes on the blueberry bushes and moved to the edge where his pale toes clenched the rock. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Presently he came back, and bending looked at Frodo’s face, pale beneath him in the dusk. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It’s true thatI have pale patches on my face and neck and elbows and toes. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She is white, and the black sweater she is wearing makes her skin look pale and washed-out. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His fingers are long and pale and stretched out across the keys. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

His skin is paler, and there’s a rash on his arms that’s beginning to peel. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He turned pale and hastily folded up his magazine. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The shadows of her thought, dull and heavy, moved across her pale thin face. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She might like that, but it would pale before the diamond ring Reba had stuck down in her dress. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of the pale sky of a Würzburg summer morning, the white blossoms on the orange trees in the gardens. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the cave again, I listened to my mother move back and forth, a pale shape driven by restlessness and rage at the restlessness and rage she felt in me and could not cure. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he did nothing except lie awake in the dark, thinking of her body there in the funeral home, not her anymore, but a thing suddenly, cold and pale. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew too well. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It is made of a pale metal that I saw often in Erudite headquarters but have never seen anywhere else. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then they get pale and they stop moving. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t believe that the sweater, brown with bands of pale red and green highlights, cost half as much as the sleeping bag, which was threadbare and patched. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The children couldn’t see it, but Tialys and Salmakia, flying above, watched the little pale figures all moving with an effect that looked like the migration of immense flocks of birds or herds of reindeer. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She touched his wound with a soft, pale hand. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I longed to speak, but could summon only words of paltry thanks and pale affection, so I left them unsaid. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She pulled off her clothes and danced desperately, her thin limbs pale and shaking, her movements pathetic and jerky. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I could see his hand on his left leg was clenched into a fist, tendons standing out under his pale skin. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He himself stood there bare-chested, his skin as pale as the moon, which was hanging in the sky right above Elinor’s house as if it, too, had turned up especially for Dustfinger’s show. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A number of well-dressed men and women were gathered in groups, some beside a grand piano, the others lounging in the pale beige upholstery of the blond wood chairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom’s face turns pale when she sees the pisa y corre getting farther and farther away from me. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He wrenches my head back, and I stare into his pale yellow eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His lips were so pale they were almost white, and his tongue seemed to flop around uselessly in his mouth as he spoke, as if it kept getting in the way. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Did the baby’s pale complexion confirm his doubts? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He saw a hand and wrist rip loose, pale fingers wriggling, the sleeve faded black roughspun. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Dad’s face went from brown to pale to green in less than a tenth of a second. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The man in the pale suit was bigger standing than he had seemed sitting on the plane beside Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Pinmei began to shake her head in protest, but the woman’s eyes were weighted with so much worry that Pinmei found her own heart pale. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Blood on his face, hair pale with the dust of collapsing ruins, he lifted his head. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But the helm of her secrecy had fallen from her, and her bright hair, released from its bonds, gleamed with pale gold upon her shoulders. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then she saw the pale crescent moon, floating high above the grass, and it came to her that this was no more than her moon blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They sat in the living room, faces pale and hands nervous and mouths tight. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was pale and looked like he was 285 years old, with the grief of the whole world etched on his face. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sound reminded Finn of an earlier time, a time when another car was jerking left and right, Roza’s pale hands slapping at the back window. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was as tall and thin as his master was short and round, with a thatch of close-cropped ginger hair on top of a face that was so pale it was almost paper white. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

There was just a touch of colour in it, a pale sea-green, soft and shimmering and very beautiful. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He thinks,” said the landlord, a weakly meditative man with a pale eye, who seemed to rely greatly on his Jack,—“he thinks they was, what they wasn’t.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin was so pale, he could see every vein in her body. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers were well manicured, the nails painted pale pink with white tips. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My father came in a few minutes after supper, looking pale and worn. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Doha could see how pale his aunt was as she clung tightly to her husband. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You look pale. How much you must have gone through!” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

His knights pulled him out before he drowned, but not before his lips turned blue and his skin as pale as milk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The teacher, Sister Mary Joseph, has a sweet face with pale whiskers and watery blue eyes as if she is always in tears. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Lev looks at me close, his eyelids puffy and red, his pale lashes disappearing around hazel pools. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was a pale thin fellow with pale thin yellow hair and a pale thin personality. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Underground, pale seeds roll over in their sleep. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The coffee was a pale gray and sweet with condensed milk. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In just a little while the trees would be putting out their baby leaves, all rosy and yellow and pale green, and there would be wild flowers and birds in the woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biff’s new growth of beard was blue against the pale skin of his face and his voice sounded tired. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Scottie nodded, face pale, jaw set, eyes alight. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I flung off my cape, showing off my pale arms and bare neck. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur looked on, very pale but silent; when the lid was removed he stepped forward. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He was sitting nearby, his hand held loosely on his knee and still slowly dripping blood, his face scorched by the sun and pale under the burning. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good morning. You look like pale blue sin,” he said. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Slowly Bat Lady raised a hand so pale it was more vein- blue than white, and pointed a shaky, bony finger in my direction. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

They were two girls, one a porcelain-colored blonde, the other also pale, with light brown hair. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Osha gazed up at the weirwood, at the red face carved in the pale trunk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"I don't know what to do. It's like he's scared of us," Kim said, her face pale. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Her face was pale and plain, never a single drop of makeup. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Oh, Rocket Boys, oh, Rocket Boys, how sweet thy missile’s delight against the pale blue sky. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two or three small children of various sizes, all pale, with smudgy faces and bare smudgy knees, wobbled along in the shadow of her skirts. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth stands in the corner, elbows pressed to her sides, looking as aghast as I feel and paler than usual. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his sleek silver furs, and he looked pale and agitated. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They turned their eyes upward again, for the fight was coming lower, and the firelight glaring up showed a swift-rushing swirl of black silk, pale limbs, green pine needles, gray-brown scabby leather. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the headsman looked at her, his pale colorless eyes seemed to strip the clothes away from her, and then the skin, leaving her soul naked before him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As her eyes moved along, she saw that out of the pale sea, near the grazing land, rose other land, and on this land appeared men. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thrust shoved them sideways, through a curtain of pale grey moss. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I smell it and imagine a pale pink center, the seeds tightly embedded in the flesh. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“With my paint box at home, I can make every color imaginable. Pink. As pale as a baby’s skin. Or as deep as rhubarb. Green like spring grass. Blue that shimmers like ice on water.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The star stroked the unicorn's wet neck and spoke softly to the animal, but it made no move, stood there frozen in the light of the inn like a pale ghost. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was so pale that he seemed to emit a pearly glow. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

On her shoulder, pale Viserion flapped wings the color of cream, stirring the air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had a fleeting vision of a pale blue envelope with a Yale crest on the back flap. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Devan looked as pale as Ghost, his face damp with perspiration. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Gather up from the mud the pieces of burned, striped cloth, the shreds of his pajamas, then bring him down, the poor pale boy, and make a decent burial. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I saw her grow paler and more asthmatic, with dark rings under her eyes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was pale and full of strain, and I wanted to take his suffering from him. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

But it was a magnificent affair, and the stuff that it was made of shimmered like silk in the pale light. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

All three of them were puffy-eyed and pale because they had been talking late into the night about Mr. Crouch. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

You can imagine what it looked like, against a pale blue satin crinoline, or whatever the dress was. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She turned a little pale and, without a word, handed the paper to Ruthanne. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Finally Griff looked up from the parchment, and those pale eyes narrowed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The fish, the pale silver color of the moon, circled in the bowl. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

When the footprints were covered, the goose turned to herd the pale daemons together. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They watched the pale rings of light round his lanterns as they dwindled into the foggy night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The train was curving the mountain, the engine loping like a great black hound, parallel with the last careening cars, panting forth its pale white vapor as it hurled us ever higher. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pointed to the first few cabins, and Annabeth turned pale. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

His face is lean, intelligent, suddenly handsome, the bones more prominent, the pale gold skin clean-shaven and clear. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Already the eastward sky was turning pale; the stars were fading, and a grey light was slowly growing. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I saw the marks on Minerva’s throat; fingerprints sure as day on Mate’s pale neck. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A glimpse, a pale shimmer on the air; a glow, aurora, dance of electrons, then a face again, faces. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if she’s heard my thoughts, her eyes meet mine, that familiar pale blue offering me solace, even as she lifts the ax. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Milo turned livid with indignation, his slim long nose flickering spasmodically between his black eyebrows and his unbalanced orange-brown mustache like the pale, thin flame of a single candle. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Despite the growing darkness, I could see my father turn pale. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face paled a few shades and he leaned back against the pillows, releasing several quick shallow breaths. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The sun grew misty as the day grew old, until it gleamed in a pale sky like a high white pearl. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Malcolm saw now that she didn’t mean it literally, but the poor old lady was easily startled, and now she sat down and breathed quickly, her face pale. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The air became colder still and everything became paler and paler until soon there was nothing but grey and white all around them. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There she stood, pale and lost, not even noticing the whirlwind around her. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She bobbed up to the surface, limp, her body still pulled downstream, her face pale and her eyes closed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Stewed something under pale gravy with a side of pockmarked Jell-O. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The new carrots, tender and pale, won’t be ready for weeks. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’d tied his shoelaces up high on the bars, but I guess not high enough to kill him, so he’s there all pale going gaagaa-gaaghh.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have pale blue eyes that sometimes darken to greenish blue. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I look at my pale fingers next to his. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She marveled at the people who lived there—people with dark and pale and even honey-colored skins. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slughorn turned paler than ever; his shiny forehead gleamed with sweat. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Gollum blinked, hooding the malice of his eyes with their heavy pale lids. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

His angular face is pale, and purple shadows darken his eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

This man was wearing an immaculate white suit, a pale blue shirt and a yellow satin tie with a bright stickpin. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

And to the east of us, behind the river, a rising rumple of dark green hills folded on each other like a great old tablecloth, receding to pale hazy blue. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were little flowers she did not recognize, white and palest blue; and endless, tangled vines; and here and there a fallen log, half rotted but soft with patches of sweet green-velvet moss. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around, the bruise on her temple a sharp contrast against her pale skin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He has pale skin and a face infested with fight scars, but he somehow still manages to be handsome. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then she looked around the room, and seeing where she was, shuddered; she gave a loud cry, and put her poor thin hands before her pale face. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Artemis’s pale eyes made Leo feel like he was a deer carcass about to be gutted. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Her wrinkly, pale skin blended with her short gray hair, and her dark blue eyes sparkled when she talked. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

A stream of pale ash-colored syrup gushed out from the mills, bubbling white with foam. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the morning the room is pale yellow. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I could picture the bored look on his pale splotchy face. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Next to him was a young man she had never seen before, pale as the moon, his shirt stained with blood and his eyes drunk with love. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d gone pale, though she couldn’t know that, but she did know that she felt faint. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kissed her again, this time my lips on the pale soft hairs of her neck, and she craned so that the white skin inched up past the cover of her shirt fabric. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For what seemed an eternity now, he had watched Sticky alternately frown with effort and smile with relief, his tea-colored skin going almost as pale as honey, and perspiration trickling down his cheeks like tears. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But Theon Greyjoy saw a look in his pale eyes that he had never seen before—an uneasiness, even a hint of fear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had a swoosh of black hair and a thin, pale face. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her Attendant's formal dress is a pale pink that compliments her golden skin perfectly and falls to her knees; the undertrousers are a darker pink, and the stockings and boots are cream. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The dogs would crawl from their baskets, yawn and stretch themselves, wander out on to the terrace and blink at the first struggles of the pale sun coming through the mist. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were darkly shadowed, traces of green veins crawled just underneath her pale skin, and Olanna wondered if she was sick. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A layer of pale clouds covers the sun, making the daylight hazy and dull. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The world she was walking through was a pale nothingness, like a blank sheet of paper or an enormous, empty white room. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

And the pale skin is an added bonus. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that long night, until the pale winter sun rose, Nat tossed and turned and hunted for an answer. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

From under her cap sprang white curls like sprigs of pale moss. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But he is black-haired and gold-skinned and though his eyes are the same pale gray as the Commandant’s, there is no trace there of the gimlet flatness that defines most Masks. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Only an occasional whiff of kindness, like a pale flower wilting in an alley, softened his pain. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He would have liked to say something about solitude, about night, about the mesa lying pale under the moon, about the precipice, the plunge into shadowy darkness, about death. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pale sky looked vast and you could see it reflected every so often in the patches of water breaking up the land. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Hedge had taken one look at the thing, turned pale, and announced that he was going to his room to console himself with Chuck Norris videos. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He had narrow shoulders and a hint of dark circles around his pale hazel eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

All his life seemed pale and distant compared to what he was experiencing now. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He looked thinner and' paler than he had in the Iris-messages. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Morrie’s mouth was open, and his skin was pale and tight against his cheekbones. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His cough gets worse; he is pale and very thin, even though he has a tremendous appetite and eats like a wolf, Jo thinks. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Her whole dress is pale blue tulle, light as air, with straps crossed neatly between her shoulder blades. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Tall pines pierced a pale morning sky, and a bunch of crows argued noisily in the top branches. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She is wearing her American-made flannel nightgown with the pale blue roses. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her pale skin was the color of beach sand. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newborn leaf clusters on the surrounding trees had a look of pale green popcorn. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

We put them into the collecting bottles filled with pale alcohol. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He watched as Mrs. Jeong flung her body over her daughter’s, pushing Mija’s pale hand over the side of the table, where it hung limply. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

In the early morning, when Burnham conducted his inspections, the buildings were a pale blue and seemed to float on a ghostly cushion of ground mist. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He watched his parents’ faces pale as they all imagined the falling bombs. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I even recognized the ring on her finger, silver set with a pale blue stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His legs were pale, and his soft-soled slippers were worn nearly through. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Isabella’s T-shirt is a swirl of peach and rose with a hint of pale blue. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

When the eggplants appeared in August they were pale purple, a strange and eerie shade. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring there would be pale blue violets and primroses, goldilocks, wood anemones, and white Stellaria. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white raven took to the air, its pale wings slapping him about the head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Both the men and women were taller than pretty standard, and more powerfully built, their eyes as pale as an ugly’s. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Her pale face was sallow and deeply lined, her blue eyes watery and narrowed. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wide and owlish, his lips working like pale grubs. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Small like Elizabeth but with a very pale complexion, her wise eyes peered through thick-lensed horn-rimmed glasses. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flower now bloomed on the side of the bush facing the water, the first to bloom of hundreds of buds that studded the tree like pale gems. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A pale blue light shone high above him. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

When he opened his mouth to speak, his lies turned to pale grey moths and took wing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His hair was the same shade as mine—deep brown, nearly black—but where my eyes were pale green, his were dark enough to burn from a distance. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She was tall and pale, with short blond hair and earrings up and down both of her ears. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The bottom was of a pale, creamy stone over which undulating white-edged rectangles of refracted sunlight divided and overlapped. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She looks pale, still processing the fact that our debts have been erased in the blink of an eye. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And even that pales in comparison with Rue’s life. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And look at that color. Not so much as a pale whisker, that’s why he’s worth twenty if he’s worth a single shim.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’d never seen him dress in black before, and, with the contrast against his pale skin, his beauty was absolutely surreal. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I know all that,” Clevinger assured him, his gaunt face pale and his agitated brown eyes swimming in sincerity. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The next room is twice as big as the first one, and it, too, is blue-lit, but paler. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Solemn, humorless despite the slightly ironic smile, he suddenly cut deep—yet with the same mildness, the same almost inhuman indifference except for the pale flash of fire in his eyes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him, he watching me with his cold, pale eyes. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to look at the pale boy-man who had called him “Daddy.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he arrived it was nearly six o’clock, and the sun was setting full and warm, and the red light streamed in through the window and gave more colour to the pale cheeks. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Finally, they settle on a strapless pale yellow gown, a hand-me-down from a glamorous aunt who used to be a beauty queen before she married and had kids. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Through a break in the clouds of Titan, you might glimpse Saturn and its rings, their pale yellow color diffused by the intervening atmosphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They arrived, with James Vincent alive but very pale, and both men considerably shaken, at Dona Luz headquarters about an hour later. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the only sound was the wind in the fruit trees, and the only creatures in the gardens were a few pale moths. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mom’s already really pale, but she kind of looked like a ghost then. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He always slept better with the great white wolf beside him,- there was comfort in the smell erf him, and welcome warmth in that shaggy pale fur. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Detective Inspector Gaskill’s up there, looking pale and gaunt and chastened. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her head looked small, precise, with pale wavy hair and closed eyes in purplish skin. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They suffered the rebukes of their circle and in midnight whispers characterized their offspring as the union of an African goddess and a pale mortal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The ghosts clambered out of the earth, pale forms paler still in the midday light. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Liana sat next to me, her eyes round, her freckles sharp against her pale skin. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Phil heard about the time my car seat fell out of the moving car, his face paled. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

His pale blue eyes flicked over Alfred's face and body. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can just see the strange letters, inscribed on the page in pale brown ink. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He went pale and he fainted right away at the table. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

His face was pale and he shook as from the cold, though it was July. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Where his are the color of a kinda-old penny, hers, though brown-spotted, are so pale he can see the blue of her veins. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The moon is high tonight and casts a pale silver over the landscape, painting it in shadows and light. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The other had on stylish pale blue pumps. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hundreds of faces staring at them looked like pale lanterns in the flickering candlelight. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The riders were as pale as the fairy woman on the frontispiece, and their faces were hollow skulls, their mouths gaping open. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meadow, so spectacular to me at first, paled next to his magnificence. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They were flagging in the rays of the bright sun, winter sun shining in a pale cool sky though it was; their heads were down and their tongues lolling out. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

His flesh is very pale in the sunlight and he no longer looks strong and stocky. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Down the face of a precipice, sheer and almost smooth it seemed in the pale moonlight, a small black shape was moving with its thin limbs splayed out. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She turned as the auto came up behind her, and I saw that her face was thin and pale against the black of her mourning dress. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Her shoes were on the floor—pale pink vinyl stilettos. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

All light went out of them, and they stared bleak and pale for a moment into the clear unwavering eyes of the man of Gondor. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

My skin has grown pale and smooth from staying inside most of the day. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tall windows were framed by pale yellow drapes, pulled back now so that sunshine flooded the chamber, throwing soft spotlights onto the blue carpet. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Grampa’s pale face turned pink, and he put both hands flat on the table to keep them steady. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

They probably don’t really like pale skin but they certainly like walking into a store without some security dude following them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then, just as she was turning to leave, Jinny happened to notice a slip of white paper sticking up from the side of the couch frame, pale in the dim room. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I don’t turn on the lights in the bathroom because I know they will be pale and bright, just like the lights in the Erudite compound. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A pale gray nothingness that is all my future holds. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Her face puckered up and quivered like a pale jelly. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

And unfortunately, he looked much younger with his curly red hair, smooth pale skin, and the splash of orange freckles across his nose. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit with my bow loaded, watching the jungle, which is ghostly pale and green in the moonlight. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was growing pale and there was a faint light in the east, but a strong wind began to blow. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer could just see pale objects floating on the surface, starting to sink. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was pale, and his eyes were tired and preoccupied, but there was nothing in his expression that gave me any indication what he might be thinking. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then, with a click the bathroom door opened and, very pale, the Savage emerged. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a pale moon that allowed me to make out in the distance the outlines of a wretched slum, with houses made of cardboard, planks, and corrugated metal. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pansy Parkinson in very frilly robes of pale pink was clutching Malfoy’s arm. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The pale man in the bed smiled faintly as the leeches nursed of his blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Before me lies the oncoming night and the pale gleaming field. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put on a clean blue shirt and overalls washed until they were soft and pale blue and lighter blue at the knees where the wear came. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed the stop button, reached into the pocket of his jeans, and pulled out a pale orange tablet. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Not that anybody can tell I am one, with this blond hair and pale skin of mine. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There far away there was a pale green glimmer that Merry guessed to be a glimpse of the plains of Rohan. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

His pale eyes looked briefly at the young woman, and then back to Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A pale mauve abba such as you buy in the East.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jomo placed the watering can aside and began to pick the umbrella tree fruit; they had fallen during the previous night, and lay, oval and pale yellow, on the lawn. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His pale green eyes meet mine, careful and wary. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Lettie, half asleep, sang, “Once I hit the tracks, my burdens at my back, I hopped that train in the pale moonlight.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

His finger trailed lower, following the pale, knotty line to where it hooked under his chin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We look at each other in the momentary flashes of light, and with pale faces and pressed lips shake our heads. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the creamy petals of orchids reflected the pale glow of twilight, and a friendly fountain gurgled. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He halted and held up a long pale sword. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Anyone ever go splat?” some pale bozo with a neon drink asks the people running the ride, and then he laughs with his bozo friends. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Matted dark hair hung down from his filthy head, framing a pale, scratched face that shone with sweat. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The pale, miserable boy still made no effort to resist, letting them drag him across the dusty stone of the courtyard. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Sophie saw a flash of pale red go darting towards the giant’s face. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Besides, she was starting to look noticeably affected—drained and pale, and she even mentioned the headaches.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But Britten was jotting something on a pad, his face pale and hard in the yellow glare of the suspended electric bulb. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ice, under the pale, strong sun, melted slowly on the branches and the trunks of trees. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She gasped as Penelope’s skin grew paler, and her features changed so that when Ophie next blinked, Penelope was gone and there in her place was Clara. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Behind him, the sun was starting to set over Village, and the light that reached down through Forest was pinkish and pale. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

In an instant, he turned pale—pale with anxiety for Franny’s condition, and pale, presumably, because failure had suddenly filled the room with its invariably sickening smell. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

His face was calm, the skin pale; his mouth was straight, neither smiling nor disapproving. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Its pale light filtered through the waving foliage to create the beautiful but strange effect of a shimmering, swaying carpet on the woodland floor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The light had faded and faded, sucking the colour out of the trees and bushes, until everything around them looked pale brown, like an old photograph. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He got up, dressed in the pale dawn light, left the dormitory without waking Ron, and went back down to the deserted common room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Her pale, fine skin was creased like cream on cooling milk and dusted with tiny red moles. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes were watering so badly from the dust that I couldn’t see the clammy, pale faces around me, let alone the faces of the soldiers who stood just beyond the ring of lights, watching. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The broad, circular table was laid with a cloth of pale gold silk printed with twining crimson and green flowers, and there were eight courses. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He picked his way about the farm carts, the piles of whitish green cabbages, baskets of yellow corn, rows of plump, pale, plucked turkeys, orange pumpkins, country cheeses—big as a baby’s head. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair color darkens to a pale gold the color of spintria coins. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She was in an oxygen mask, unconscious, and I'd never seen her so pale. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” she said, but there was a look of dismay on her small pale face. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It hit the head of a girl with sparkling pink barrettes in her pale yellow hair. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

A few guards fly up into the air on pale green wings, blades drawn. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He wore a pale blue, long-sleeved shirt and faded blue jeans. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

His skin was less pale, I decided — flushed from the snow fight maybe — the circles under his eyes much less noticeable. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her shadow was a dark outline against the pale yellow curtain. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her complexion, pale with nausea at first, grows less so until there it is: a glow. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was pale blue silk with tiny pink flowers, ankle length and sleeveless, with a low, scooped neck. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Jethro was shaking inside when he walked out of the store into the pale sunlight. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

First he spotted the T-shaped shadow of the osprey crossing the pale green water beneath him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fires of Castle Black were hidden behind a hill, but the Wall was there, pale beneath the moon, vast and cold, running from horizon to horizon. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Its grass was ragged and brown, and the chalked yard lines had faded to a pale yellow. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The skin is paler than either Ashima’s or his own, translucent enough to show slim green veins at the temples. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She followed him, uncomplaining, for there was no other choice, but she was pale and frightened. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She's on her back with a pair of pale green tubes running from a clip under her nose to a panel on the wall. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dede supposes that the Tigers took one look at the bespectacled, pale young man and decided he wouldn’t be much competition. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

An ombré ball gown, its color deepening from white near my throat, through palest blue to deepest indigo at my feet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Cloud Pond was a couple of hundred acres of exquisitely peaceful water surrounded by dark coniferous forest, the treetops pointy black silhouettes against a pale blue evening sky. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was pale, and there were shadows under his eyes, but he did not say anything. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dari stood behind Joe, gripping his hair with one hand, face pale with horror. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You’ll work with Nigel today, he’s our youngest,” he said, gesturing towards a man with a pale doughy body, spiky dark hair, and an almost cherubic face. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

For the first time, her eyes met Mr. Kapasi’s in the rearview mirror: pale, a bit small, their gaze fixed but drowsy. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She looked at her watch, then glanced at Lily, who seemed a bit pale with fear. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

At dinner he meets her father, a tall, good-looking man with luxuriant white hair, Maxine’s pale green-gray eyes, thin rectangular glasses perched halfway down his nose. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Julia had turned a shade paler, so that her freckles were showing, but she faced O’Brien boldly. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

"A city pale as die moon and lovely as a maid. An hour's ride, no more." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Beneath the coverlet, his legs were pale, soft, ghastly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wasn't paying attention to anything else—just trying to set the tableaux—and when Javi finally shuffled into position, the whole moon glowed behind him, casting a pale corona around his head. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Below the glass counter at his waist were trays of more plump samosas, and what looked like pale, diamond-shaped pieces of fudge covered with foil, and some bright orange pastries floating in syrup. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

If there was a ghost down here, he felt sure, it could be only a sad, pale creature, nothing to be frightened of. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Matt saw Sister Inez go pale, but she didn’t back down. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the waterfalls might have been curtains of pale silk hung from the cliff tops, too numerous to count. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She thought of Lonnie and Kelly and Barbara, her friends, just starting to streak their lips with pale lipstick for special events. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose I had Father Issues too, though they paled in comparison. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She imagines her granddaughter pale, gliding through paleness, malnourished and cold without the food of scarlets and greens. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are red, her face pale, scrubbed, devoid of makeup. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The burly fellow had pale hairs in his red head now. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The webworms seemed to mirror me, floating in their own balloons of gauze in the pale turquoise sky. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Her voice and her needles fell silent, and she glanced up at Bran with pale, filmy eyes and asked, "So, child. This is the sort of story you like?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When we arrived at the PPG building we took the elevator up about fifty floors and by then Mom looked pale. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the surface, he was one of those pale, ingratiating kind of men who tiptoed through life on small, quick feet. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man wore a dark hat, and jeans and long jacket washed palest blue with lighter places at knees and elbows. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She waited in the yard, her face pale, for five minutes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pale young gentleman and I stood contemplating one another in Barnard’s Inn, until we both burst out laughing. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He photographs the narrow sidewalks, the dark cobblestone streets, the mansard roofs, the ancient, shuttered buildings of pale beige stone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So she just looked at his pale form instead, and the ghost saw the passion and brilliance in her eyes, and took strength from it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The woman had short gray hair and wore a pale pink blouse. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

His axe was shivering her shield, cracking the wood on the downswing, tearing off long pale splinters when he wrenched it back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I used to tell him he was so pale he looked like a marshmallow. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Slowly the dawn grew to a pale light, diffused and shadowless. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He gazed down at her, his pale red eyes vaguely curious. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Above, the heavens glow, the sky pale with starlight. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He sat with his shoulders slumped, his hands pressed between his knees, his tears streaming steadily down his pale, soft cheeks. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was a long time since Meggie had seen the sea, and then it had been a cold sea, slate gray and pale from the wind. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then there’s me, white bread and pale as the moon. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was swollen, obsessed, and pale with a need for vengeance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched the pushed-up part, brushed away the dirt, and discovered a pale green loop. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment he thought she’d drowned the girl, but then he saw a flash of pale clothing on the rocks at the base of the island. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She noticed immediately that they were now in an altogether paler country. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You should have retired, Ishtar," says Nergal as he crawls over a mound of pale corpses sniffing for juicy morsels. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her slender fingers brushed her cheek, where the pale smooth skin was already reddening. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They morph into a tangle of pale arms and legs. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The creature’s twiglike hands moved to its face and pushed the pale clay about, making something like a nose. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Come and fight,” said the pale young gentleman. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The memory is mostly shadows now—my father’s pale hands hanging from silver handcuffs. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I imagined her dress to be a pale, listless yellow from too many washings. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Black gave a shudder, rolled over, and lay motionless on the ground, pale as death. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Michelangelo peered down from his massive, ruddy, whiskered face onto the pale Scotsman. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Their eyes met over the basin, each pale face lit with that strange, green light. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

His right eye is slightly paler than his left. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She stared out the window and watched the dusk turn the white of the neighbor’s house pale purple, then gray. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our baby brother, Roman, was born pale as dust. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The walls are painted pale cream, the carpet is light blue, and sitting in the middle is a black Steinway baby grand piano. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Still, he eats the paint and plaster until a white hole grows where pale green paint used to be. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I watch the light leave Will’s eyes, which are pale green, like celery. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Eyes pale as sea foam watched Theon from under those shaggy white eyebrows. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The bird bobbed its pale head up and down, as if it were bowing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The last had furry wings, and her body was coated with pale blue fuzz. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Her face was pale, her eyes as sad as when she looked at the ocean. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The corners of his pale lips turn up, and the helmet nods up and down again. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then he saw two dark figures, Frodo and a man, framed against the archway, which was now filled with a pale white light. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She had a slight figure, a pale, gentle face, and fair hair. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The pale light of the lamp inside ran past the woman, over the edge of the porch, and picked out the figure of the boy on his hands and knees. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very shortly after she opened her eyes in all their softness, and putting out her poor, pale, thin hand, took Van Helsing’s great brown one; drawing it to her, she kissed it. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Finally the woman came into the dining room followed by a pale young man who sat down and stared at the food. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was bellowing into the elf’s pale face. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Now it was soft, and dirt had settled into the notches where the pale straw fibers crossed each other, especially in the crown. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Her hair was the pale blond of a porcelain doll. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Madame Duboise’s pale green face and flowing rose petal locks suddenly appear on the blank page. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The sky, in that one place, grew slowly and steadily paler. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

A giant copper kettle—often about four feet across and three feet deep—waited for the pale river. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The second guard, a slender, frail-looking young man, was deathly pale. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Up close, Michael Nelson has pale skin and hair the color of mine, sandy brown, definitely not Filipino. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Crayons wouldn’t do, of course, but with paints you could put one thin color on top of another so that you would begin to see a pale figure moving from deep inside the paper. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the pale moonlight I see Katherine's eyes widen as she takes him in. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She looked at them all and they were just sleeping humans, so vulnerable with their slack mouths and their long pale toes poking out from under the covers. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His skin was much paler than the other two men’s, almost sal­low, and a crop of tiny sweat beads gleamed on his forehead just below the edge of his black turban. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Big,” said Lyra’s muffled voice, “and ever so strong, and pale eyes...” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dug the tip of the knife into the wood, scoring it, chipping away at the curves of the letters, until the pale wood beneath showed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Bruce was a large man with a bald head that shone in the dull light, his face pale and scruffy with a few days’ worth of beard. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, like today, it’s still a shock to see myself, the splashes of pale across my face. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She held the ring up to the pale light and it glimmered with a slow, white, fairy’s fire, and she knew that it was full of magic. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The burly fellow took the other’s hand again, the pale one in the homy sexton’s. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed it all, heated it on the stove, and before I knew it, I had made a pot of pale gray mush. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I must have looked pale, too, for I found Horatio at my side, supporting my arm. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The leader of the pale warriors barked orders to someone in a colorful uniform at a gate. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was pale, with a few salmon clouds of evening streaking to the west. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A pale green curtain of branches just brushed the grasses and threw a filigree of shadows, as delicate as the wrought silver, on the child’s face. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I faced Mecca with the help of a line I scratched into the pale yellow ground and carefully kept up. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin is extremely pale, like a body under a bathing suit, but covered with freckles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dryver is the perfect Dolly, and it was impossible for Lucy with her thick, pale legs and flat hair not to look sad in comparison. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They were thin, and pale, and quite pretty, and had black button eyes. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

His pale blue eyes stared at everything that went past, taking in the docks. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She looks up at me, her throat elongated and pale. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I’ve ever seen his face look so pale. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

His hair was the pale, nearly translucent color of spun silk. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nina placed one hand on Kaz’s pale chest, focusing on his heart and forcing it to contract. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In his dawn tours, Burnham faced a hard pale world. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The bard’s features were pale; he appeared half dazed by fatigue and suffering. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The cover is a pale blue, color a the sky. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her mother—a pale, gaunt woman, full of resignation and sorrow—began obsessively talking about the Witch. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There were no sidewalks, only wide, flat shale steppingstones arranged in the same curving path from the pale concrete driveways to the whitewashed porch steps. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He looked at Kate’s face, still and pale, the eyes looking straight ahead. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of her seemed unalive, like a pale wax model of my mother: the woman who could not fight fire with fire, even to save her children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore baggy red gym shorts and a sleeveless mesh jersey that exposed a pale kettle-sized belly. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was very pale, with shadows around her eyes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the thing that had really stood out to him was her skin: pale, white as pearls. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Scheer’s face was handsome, pale, with an Asiatic cast to his gray eyes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She digs into her pale pink pocket and replaces my saturated tissue with a new one. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The face was pinched and pale and angry. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"I have to bring m'lord water for his basin. He's in his bedchamber being leeched. Not the regular black leeches but the big pale ones." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her light brown hair was always pulled back into a thin ponytail, and her pale blue eyes hardly ever connected with anyone else’s. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

She saw her dad come into the room carrying some clothes, and he looked so pale that Ivy’s stomach jumbled up even more. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

True, his nose is long but not so long, his hair dark but surely not so dark, his skin pale but certainly not so pale. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were walking uphill from the dock, some moving slowly and painfully, all of them pale and gray. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was pale blue felt with a wide rolled-up brim that went out from her face at a slant. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was pale silver in this light, curled and tangled in its usual way. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They were still under the white plum tree and their faces were touching except for a pale thin ray of moonlight between. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

As Frodo drew near he threw back his hood, showing a shaggy head of dark hair flecked with grey, and in a pale stern face a pair of keen grey eyes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Henry’s face was pale and serene through the haze of his cigarette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His favorite poems were those that described the countryside, poems about being out early when the morning light is thin and pale, and about hearing the birds’ songs. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had only one storey, but it had the same narrow windows, and it was built of ugly pale bricks, badly laid. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

A red spot burned in each pale cheek, as if she had been slapped. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She brushed it forward and stared at her pale, freckled face in the mirror before combing it back into its regular part down the middle. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He’s slouched down in the chair wearing the pale blue button-down and khakis he wore to school today. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

With a square of waxy bakery paper, the boy pulled out a concha frosted with pale yellow sugar and placed it on a plate in front of me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing a pale orange crop top and a leather miniskirt, and the bulk of her hair is swept to one side. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the waiter appears, setting a pale pink mixed drink in front of Ben. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I look into my mother’s eyes, which are pale green and framed by a dark smudge of eyelashes. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She didn’t seem hurt, but it was hard to tell by the pale moonlight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were so many of those pale elm petals in the canals, it was ridiculous. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was pale, her lips and fingertips blue. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pardon me,” murmured the Ladybug, turning a trifle pale, “but am I wrong in thinking that we seem to be bobbing up and down?” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Before he could even climb down from his horse, Frey was there, even more pale and even more wan than when he had left him. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the moonlight, Sophie caught a glimpse of an enormous long pale wrinkly face with the most enormous ears. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few feet above him, pale yellow sunlight shone through a grating; the feeble beam ended abruptly on a wall of rough, damp stone. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

They are white and pale blue and dull green, and they draw me to them by some strange magnetism. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of snakes, coiled and twitching on the smooth pale rocks. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

His face was paler than it had been the last time Alex saw it, and the pain of two bullet wounds was drawn all over it, but—impossibly—it was Herod Sayle. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He had taken that tree, and that tree, and that rock as markers of the path...but there was no path, only the mirk, and the twilight, and the pale trees. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Customs officer was pale, even paler than Mom, with green eyes, auburn hair, and a five o’clock shadow. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There’s no way he could look paler, but his lips are unusually violet, and he looks like he might pass out. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was pale as though he had not slept, and his eyes had the look of a weary buzzard’s. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Baba’s face is pale and ghostly under the streetlight, his eyes red and watery. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even their skin was paler, their hair more white than yellow. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly he looked paler; his skin still had that grayish tinge, probably because he so rarely saw daylight these days. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

His hair was greasy and matted to his forehead, and up close he looked pale, almost translucent. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“If you’re going to leave a note it should at least tell me what—” Bast’s eyes widened as he saw Kote in the light of the inn, pale and streaked with blood and dirt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But the lecture and this small sampling paled in comparison to the main event of our chemical-agents education—the practical class. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened her robe and drew out a pale, heavy breast, tipped with red. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His skin is pale, and the tip of his ear turns red as he tries to tuck his hair behind it again. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He turned and saw a pale, bearded man approaching them on foot. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nita gave Tool a dirty look, but her knuckles were pale as she clenched her fists. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Mendozas left immediately after Maria, pale and miserable, emerged from El Patron’s apartment. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there pendulous clumps of green mistletoe leaves and pale white berries hung from the oak, seeming even more insignificant when seen next to the grandeur of the oak. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She was looking thin and pale and weak; but her eyes were pure and glowed with fervour. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The three boys, pale as ghosts, followed him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

A pale daymoon hung hugely in the sky and went where they went. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face turned even paler than marble and her eyes were stretched so wide I could see the whites all around them. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Mother Fletcher sat upright in the white-sheeted bed, her pale green housecoat pinned at the neck. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was taller than when he had left, paler and bonier, and he showed the first symptoms of resistance to nostalgia. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

On my way out I might stop by the terraria to look at some shiny frogs glazed bright, bright green, or yellow and deep blue, or brown and pale green. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted up a broken leaf for them to see, a large pale leaf of golden hue, now fading and turning brown. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was only with the arrival of pale dawn that he stopped, slumping down under some bushes. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Now she’ll be safe, he thought, and a second later he saw the pale gleam of the window deep behind the bushes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A blanket of pale mist still clung to the surface of the water, the murky green current swirling past underneath. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The mmuo themselves might even laugh at the sight of a pale stranger scribbling in a notebook. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As he spoke, Bast’s eyes grew paler, until they were the pure blue of a clear noontime sky. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Next to her stands a smaller girl with pale skin and a smattering of freckles, her hair in pigtails. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Hazel stared at the girl and her pale, proud parents, stared so long that Susan noticed. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leaves dripped onto the wet grass, but the rain had stopped and a pale sun had risen. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He looked back up the stairs and raised his head, letting the raindrops splash on his pale, wrinkled skin. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Ashton’s neck was back to its pale skinny self. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The team exited from the hot zone in pairs, and stood around on the grass in their civilian clothes, looking pale, weak, and thoughtful. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Huddled beneath her ermine mantle and surrounded by her ladies, serving girls, and knights, the southron queen seemed a frail, pale, shrunken thing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His face was pale but very nearly expressionless. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The Huntsman regarded her pale cheeks and wide, dark eyes, and said as kindly as he could, “If you were already sensitive, then yes, her medallion may have enabled you to see more of her.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

My dad is standing there, pale as milk. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She cradled its head with her pale hands. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Dense thickets of halfdrowned trees pressed close around them, branches dripping with curtains of pale fungus. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Now, sucking all the night into his open mouth, and blowing it out pale, with all the blackness left heavily inside himself, he set out in a steady jogging pace. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

One veil was a pale blue, and its puddle of light was turned into blue shadow. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

His grandmother points to a neighbor with pale, scaly skin who has sniffed glue for a decade. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Her long, pale blond hair was pulled up into a twist, with a strand of hair falling down each side of her face. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was pale, almost calm, but he was biting his lips as he stood in the shadow of the gallows. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bolton’s pale eyes looked empty in the moonlight, as if there were no one behind them at all. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was as tall as Father, but paler, and there was a scar by his right temple that he had gotten in a sword fight. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed tired and pale after the ride up the mountain, but now that we were here, we both looked at the scenery for the first time. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crimson at the horizon, the last of the sunset faded, dirough orange, upwards into yellow and a pale watery green. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Balder was pale; his skin was the color of the world on a gray day, when there is no sun. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Adam looked down at her hand and saw it wrinkled as a pale monkey’s paw. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rubio is even paler than usual, and Feathers’ forehead ripples as much as the Prawn’s. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The portrait, in the style of Gainsborough, showed an aristocratic family—parents, two teenage girls and an infant, all thin-lipped, and pale as ghouls—posed before a vaguely Tuscan landscape. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A pale young man made his way forward, very nervously. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

When she woke, later in the night, aware of a lost warmth, she saw him crouched at the open window, looking out over the pale fields and the tall, dark trees below. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did she notice their impeccable suits, one the light blue of a globe’s watery portions, the other the pale lavender of French pastilles? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was made of wood and had been scrubbed to a pale, smooth finish. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

At twilight the sky turns a pale but intense blue, and the trees on the lawn and the shapes of the neighboring houses become silhouettes, solidly black. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The entire Columbian Guard seemed to be present, their pale blue uniforms standing out like crocuses against black loam. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But instead his walls were this pale blue, and his bedspread was white-and-yellow striped. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The front door opened, and a woman, pale and thin, gave Seven a small smile. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

On his belly, clawing at the snow, he glimpsed the trees above, pale and snow-cloaked, the orange glow between. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Their pale glow illuminates more of the room's wonders. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They were all pale and sick with the implications. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When he returned he would bring back gifts: slippery, shiny silks, or thick woolen tweeds, or toy dolls made of pale, cold porcelain. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up at the unicorn, at the merman with the pale green face, and at the lion, the winged lion. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I swung around and stood face to face with a little old lady in a pale blue sunbonnet and a loose brown dress. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had pale eyebrows and a ton of black hair, with a big wine stain covering the skin around his right eye and beyond, like a pirate’s patch. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The peel falls from her large knuckly hands in a long pale spiral. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The blue of the sky was pale and it occurred to me that maybe everybody had fled the city and its heat. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Thing is, each time you say it, the word hurts African Americans,” a pale, shaggy-haired boy in front said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The giant’s golden skin paled as if it were turning to brass. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Hooper stood above him, his eyes flicking about nervously, his face as pale as his limbs in the dim light. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The last time he had seen her, just before they left port, her eyes had been raw from crying, two ghastly red holes in a wan, pale face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She wore a gown of pale purple silk and a moonstone hair net that had Jjeen a gift from Joffrey. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The thin rivulet of a tear fell quietly down her pale cheekbone, disappearing into the darkness. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was bathed in a pale blue light. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Even across the length of the crowded hall, Viserys should have been conspicuous with his pale skin, silvery hair, and beggar's rags, but she did not see him anywhere. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At the right-hand corner the green cathedral spire ascends into the pale blue sky of the evening. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moonlight played on the glass as I poured out a little into each of our cups, and I liked the way the reflections wrapped around our hands, too, like a long, pale scarf. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Farid felt Silvertongue tensing every muscle—as if he wanted to run to his daughter, who looked almost as pale as her dress. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

One wall was dark blue, another pale yellow, and then two white ones. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Look what I have for you,” and she held up a pale green silk dress lined in wool. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace and Cordelia and Carol hang around the edges of my life, enticing, jeering, growing paler and paler every day, less and less substantial. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They fanned their wings in slow motion as they made their way up her long, pale dress from the hem up to her neckline, forming an intricate floral pattern. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Stella could scarcely take her eyes off Paulette’s dress—it was a pale lavender, and clearly store-bought. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She wore a black dress, black hat, and black cape and looked pale and sad. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Dawn’s pale light now reflected on its smooth surface like glass, so perfectly still she almost felt bad for touching it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Painted pale green with shuttered windows and a very small sign. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The sand was washed pale and smooth by rainwater and wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My hands twisted against the pale bed sheets. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It might have held a presence medieval; and, reaching to the desk for pencil and paper, I sketched in fancy with an absent mind a profile, pale and aquiline. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

His face was smooth and pale, the color of milky tea. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Are you all right, daughter? You seem so thin. And pale. Do you feel sick?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her appearance is different again—pale white as a snowflake, with hair almost a mirroring shade, and bright blue eyes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

At the top of sheets of scratchy pale yellow paper he writes out his pet name again and again, and the alphabet in capitals and lowercase. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The leap had shattered one of his legs, and a jagged piece of pale bone jutted out through the rotted cloth of his breeches and the grey meat beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He remembered walls of pale red stone festooned with patches of nitre, a grey door of splintered wood, four inches thick and studded with iron. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And eventually the dark peeled back layer by layer, and with imperceptible gradations the sky feathered to a delicate pale blue. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Step by step, the dull light of the fading sun was replaced with the pale silver of moonlight. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The mists were rolling back from the valley, and a pale sun was lighting the sky when the old dog came through the windbreak of tall Norway pines and down outside the farmhouse door. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two moonstones looked up at him in the light of his small hand-held fire; two pale moonstones buried in a creek of clear water over which the life of the world ran, not touching them. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks like a walking skeleton, sun bleached and pale, and I involuntarily shrink back from him when he reaches a hand out to guide me toward the back of the building. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“That pale lady dresses funny,” said one boy. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were pale, her complexion sallow, and her teeth crooked, but she was extremely healthy and never complained during her pregnancy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bloodblooms had sprouted from their gaping wounds, pale flowers with petals plump and moist as a woman’s lips. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His face looked pale, as if he was just as distressed as Emma at the idea of guns. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was pale, his complexion like the underbelly of a fish, and he wore black-rimmed glasses. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gotcha!” yelled Ron, pulling a second pod from the stump just as Hermione managed to burst the first one open, so that the bowl was full of tubers wriggling like pale green worms. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The god was horrorstruck to see the blood gush forth and the lad, deathly pale, fall to the ground. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up at them, and a faint light of cunning and eagerness flickered for a second in his pale blinking eyes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Angeline Fowl sat hunched on the bed, her pale limbs glowing white in the gloom. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

My path took me beneath a row of apple trees, full-blown and luminous, shivering in the twilight like an avenue of pale umbrellas. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was Faith Taylor, as in the Faith Taylor, looking all weepy and gorgeous, the only mourner whose honeyed brown skin hadn’t paled under the harsh lights. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Unlike the ghosts around them, Peeves the Poltergeist was the very reverse of pale and transparent. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Jaimito was now lifting up her hair for access to the pale, hidden parts of her neck. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glance back to see the pale boy above us, the lovely Colt in his hand pointed straight at my head. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She tore open her blouse so the pale yellow buttons went flying like popped corn. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where the repulsive scar had been there was now a smooth, pale patch of skin. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The edge of the sky turned gray, and then pale orange, and then deep fiery crimson. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers were so pale, it was hard to believe Hazel and he shared the same godly father. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He’s pale—not sickly, but like he doesn’t get out in the sun much. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I looked at Abby with her wild hair and the spread of pale freckles across her nose and cheeks. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She rifles through her closet: the turquoise silk blouse with red buttons, the pale pink flowered dress with a ruffled hem. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then the candy lady, who is gray-haired and never smiles, disappears into another room and returns a few minutes later with a wafer cone, pale yellow lemon-chiffon ice cream dripping from it. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Those kinds of—of pale imitations aren’t the same as truly bringing someone back to life.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

On the walls to either side, pale sharks prowled painted blue-green depths, whilst eels and octopods slithered amongst rocks and sunken ships. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One hand held a pale blue shawl tight around her chest, and the other held a book, which she used to beckon him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

His skin was pale and his blond hair looked almost gray, as if he’d aged ten years in just a few months. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

"Ghost, come," he called, and the direwolf followed, a pale shadow moving through the night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her skin was pale and translucent and her mouth was tender. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

No waves would come to ruffle this dream water, and no bulk of cloud, wind-driven from the west, obscure the clarity of this pale sky. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She brushes her pale, sickly hands over my forehead. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He looks even paler than he did the last time I saw him, and the dark circles under his eyes are pronounced, like bruises. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was a pale green light, the kind you see from one of those snap-activated glow sticks; it lit the stairwell, and then everything was suddenly dark again. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Tully marriage was his notion, never doubt it, he—” She broke off as Roose Bolton rose to his feet, pale eyes shining in the torchlight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the light coming through the side window, die pale green fight from the water, he saw die pilot’s head only it wasn’t the pilot’s head any longer. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second Maddy knows that this pale half life is not really living. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is roots sucking deep at the earth, and the pale, sightless creatures that live below the ground. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

My Tris should look pale and small—she is pale and small, after all—but instead the room is full of her. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The woman’s pale gaze flicked past him to the crate where he and Sefia had been hiding. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In a windowless room draped in black and crimson, Matthias listened silently to the strange words coming out of the pale, freakish boy’s mouth. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Larson smiled, and his pale eyebrows went up as he said, “The heart of the newspaper? I didn’t know newspapers had hearts.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Draco Malfoy didn’t go red, but a pink tinge appeared in his pale cheeks. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He wondered if they had blundered into a nest of milk snakes or giant grave worms, soft and pale and squishy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even the whites are not white, but a pale cream color. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pommel was a hunk of pale stone weighted with lead to balance the long blade. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the weeks that followed he did seem to be getting paler and thinner, but it didn’t look as though he’d cracked yet. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

But everything that had happened before paled in comparison to this because there was so much more to lose now: Flora and her round and lovable head. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have his straw-yellow hair or his white skin, yet my coloring looked too pale, like something that was once darker and had faded in the sun. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face was pale and drawn, her eyes a bit sunken. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were pale blue, and her hair would be a darkish blond once it was washed; because she was filthy, and she smelled as if she hadn’t bathed for days. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a lovely pale red-and-mauve design: “Ice cream!” the chimp artist had signed as she handed it to her human teacher. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They emerge through the air-lock door, pale, shaken, tentative, trembling, angry with the Army, angry with themselves. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if she senses my weakness, Helene grits her teeth and drives me back, her pale eyes glacial, daring me to challenge her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She does look pale, and she does have a note from her mom. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her skin is pale yellow, her teeth rotten or missing. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Subtle: just browns and yellows and hints of pale blue, but stitched with an attention to detail good enough for the king himself. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Beneath the furs he was naked and feverish, his pale puffy flesh covered with weeping sores and scabs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had small teeth set in vast expanses of gum; those round ears; and delicate, almost maidenly skin that tended to flush and pale with the waxing and waning of his digestive problems. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she set down the teacup she noticed something on her right hand, and she turned her palm up to the sunlight and saw a pale, circular scar. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a pale green curtain, die same color as my gown, that could be pulled across the table, dividing my upper and lower halves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Ahead he glimpsed a pale white trunk that could only be a weirwood, crowned with a head of dark red leaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bigger saw Mr. Dalton’s white hair glisten like molten silver from the pale sheen of the fire. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ghost girl spoke, but in her thin, pale voice, it was only a whisper. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Along the borders of the rich lady’s sari were embroidered flurries of blossoms in pale yellows and pinks twined with green leaves. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You pale grub! You lightless lightning bug! The cauldron of Arawn’s Cauldron-Born!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her face was pale now, her eyes wide. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were a paler blue than her skin, and it seemed to him that she was trying to fathom him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It had a pale yellow glass hood over it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this was now and not any other time, and on the high soft bed lay a large, pale woman, waiting for the midwife and getting Beetle instead. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two servants went ahead to light their way, carrying ornate oil lanterns with panes of pale blue glass, while a dozen strong men hoisted the poles to their shoulders. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I could see one of his pale hands against the cobblestones, but it was empty. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Singer’s hands talked desperately and his narrow face was very pale. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Returning to his desk, Mr. Curtain produced two white tunics, two pale blue sashes, and two pairs of striped trousers. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

A great many were yellow: pale yellow, brownish yellow, sandy yellow, dirty yellow, and they had green shutters and red-brown roofs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Ah! I may mention without indiscretion, I hope, that I noticed the colour of your dressing gown on the way from Aleppo to Stamboul. A pale mauve, I believe.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her paper-thin skin, so pale he wonders if they need to attach a bag of blood to one of those poles and give her a refill. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Silly was pale, with kind of messy pale hair and pale eyes. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“If I’d of had the foggiest idea,” she said very steadily, holding her pale, weeping eyes on me, “just the foggiest idea. We brought all the wrong things.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven gave her the side-eye, taking in her straight, short black hair and bangs, her round, pale face and flush red lips. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Out in the sunlight the air was balmy, and through skies of palest sapphire sailed clouds of gossamer silk. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He could see pale carpeting on the floor. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Scorched curtains and soot fanned across the ceiling and cardboard peeling off the window and the very first pale light of predawn leaking through. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I turned and saw, in the pale glow of the marina lights, a thick greasy arm around my little sister’s neck. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The skin under my fingernails had been pale blue all week. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like a shivering ghost, deathly pale, lips tinged blue. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Her room is painted pale yellow and also has lots of cool African decorations. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

And for once, there was indecision scrawled across his pale features. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

This woman’s skin is shimmering and pale, her long black hair is tied with dozens of silver ribbons that fall over her shoulders. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Only a few ropes of pale tendon still attached the head to the neck. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His father’s pale bare head bobbed above the crowds of laborers, an apparition of evil with his red dragon tattoos running up his arms and curling about his neck. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

His face paled as he thought of Adaon’s brooch and his hand went protectively to it. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The wisps of vapor had thickened into a dense mist that generated a pale light. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The direwolf’s pale yellow eyes drank in the sights around them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Octavian stood to one side, thin and pale, his eyes red-rimmed from sleeplessness or anger, a string of sacrificial stuffed animals around his waist. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She saw a world of gray, of pale grays and dark grays and blacks, where fog drifts wandered like wraiths. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The pent waters spread out into a long oval lake, pale Nen Hithoel, fenced by steep grey hills whose sides were clad with trees, but their heads were bare, cold-gleaming in the sunlight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

His eyes were curiously pale, almost without color, and his look disturbing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He looks pale and wan, but healthy enough. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Rab had gone into one of the many stalls and backed out a tall, slender horse, so pale he was almost white, but flecked all over with tiny brown marks. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

First stars appeared in darkening skies still pale and the earth’s heat escaped upward. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In two years’ time, my scar became pale and shiny and I had no memory of my mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The window revealed the afternoon sky, slightly pale, but still lovely. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The mist rose from her pale flesh, and for a moment it seemed as if pale, sorcerous flames were playing about her fingers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ned Stark reached out his hand to grasp the flowery crown, but beneath the pale blue petals the thorns lay hidden. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The shadow of night rose, dividing the eastern sky into pale blue above and gray below, with a rosy border where the sunlight still shone on a haze of dust in the air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at our hands, her smooth one, the nails pale moons, mine with its uttered cuticles, its skin of incipient toad. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His pale skin looked as green as the poison from the chalice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She looked small and pale, a little greasy. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Each pocket of foam glowed pale in the moonlight as it surfaced, before the water’s bulk swallowed it back down. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I couldn't take my eyes off the pale, stubby white fingers traveling back and forth from the poet's salad bowl to the poet's mouth with one dripping lettuce leaf after another. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Harry’s stomach lurched with nerves and Ron, he saw, looked pale under his freckles. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He was tall and thin with a sharp face as pale as the crescent moon. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jackie first, my sister says, our freshly washed hair damp and spiraling over toweled shoulders and pale cotton nightgowns. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Nina saw the pale searchlights sweeping across the sky, hunting for the German aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was a calm cloudless night, and a pale sliver of moon peeked over the rooftops. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tracing with her finger the white and pink-tinged clouds against pale skies of gray or green, Kira wished again for blue. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pale face flared in the darkness as the ray of a flashlight caught and held it for a moment. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stars still shone and the day had drawn only a pale wash of light in the lower sky to the east. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I believe in my little brother's pale skin and my own dark brown. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The sky was painted pale blue and pink—the same color as the lake and the peach trees along its shore. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He cried out; and sat up, staring in bewilderment at all the faces round him, pale in the moonlight. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They passed close to a solitary mukonde tree, which raised many pale, leafless branches against the dark sky. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fish had turned silver from his original purple and silver, and the stripes showed the same pale violet colour as his tail. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, enemy snipers call for star shells so the landscape's lit pale like fridgelight. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Now he rode at the front of the cavalcade, with pale cheeks, and Wart wished there was something he could do to calm him down. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took white powder from the girl’s beaded bag and did her best to pale her skin. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“This,” Henry nodded at the crowd of pale men, “is our side.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z