All 5 Uses of
ashen
in
Catch-22
- Milo let out a long, melancholy wail and staggered back, beads of perspiration popping out suddenly all over his ashen face.†
Chpt 7
- Major Danby stood barring the door, waving everyone else away in ashen silence.†
Chpt 13 *
- Lieutenant Scheisskopf's wife had turned ashen in disbelief and was ogling him with alarm.†
Chpt 18
- Nurse Duckett shrieked and jumped into the air a mile, but it wasn't high enough, and she squirmed and vaulted and seesawed back and forth on her divine fulcrum for almost a full fifteen seconds before she wiggled free finally and retreated frantically into the aisle with an ashen, trembling face.†
Chpt 27
- Yossarian swore at Milo and held two aspirins out to ashen lips unable to receive them.†
Chpt 41
Definition:
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(ashen as in: ashen face) very pale - often due to illness or fear