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ashen as in:  ashen face

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  • I found the Nguyens behind the counter, all the way against the wall, faces ashen, Mr. Nguyen's arms wrapped around his wife.   (source)
  • A moment ago her face had been ashen gray, now it was scarlet.   (source)
  • The faces of the others were set, and Harker's grew ashen grey.   (source)
  • He raised his hand and pointed to the bed, and his iron face was drawn and ashen white.   (source)
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  • Three examples, if nothing else, will give you the ashen taste in your mouth that defined my existence during that year.†   (source)
  • And there, the ashen hair and hazel eyes of the boy from District 9 who died as we struggled for the backpack!†   (source)
  • Other than the patches of early snow scattered over the ground like hopscotch squares, every inch of the camp was an ashen, otherworldly gray, reminding one POW of the moon.†   (source)
  • At the same time, the larger funnel changed from ashen to ghostly white, towering palely over the cove, lunging and retreating.†   (source)
  • She says it like she expects him to relent, but her wide eyes and ashen face suggest otherwise.†   (source)
  • The boys turned frail, their skin ashen and their cheeks sinking, as their bodies burned up under the infection.†   (source)
  • From Langdon's ashen expression, Fache sensed the news was bad.†   (source)
  • Pettigrew was muttering distractedly; Harry caught words like "far-fetched" and "lunacy," but he couldn't help paying more attention to the ashen color of Pettigrew's face and the way his eyes continued to dart toward the windows and door.†   (source)
  • When she saw me approaching the group, her face went "ashen."†   (source)
  • Then he just sat there holding the binoculars and watching the ashen daylight congeal over the land.†   (source)
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  • Every six or seven days, the same two pallid casualty assistance officers enter the refectory, and four hundred faces go ashen from the effort of not turning to watch.†   (source)
  • Edwin glanced down at the bloody red gashes surrounded by puffy ashen skin and whistled low.†   (source)
  • The father went ashen.†   (source)
  • I flashed to my grandfather's ashen face, his lips just barely moving, uttering those very words.†   (source)
  • Above, a low ashen sky loomed over the plantation, if not over the entire state of Louisiana.†   (source)
  • Her face was ashen, her lips peeling.†   (source)
  • Eleanor paled from pale to ashen.†   (source)
  • Outside, the fog was thick, not a breath of wind, streetlights burning through with a diffuse, haggard, ashen stillness, softened and blurred to haze.†   (source)
  • Her face was ashen.†   (source)
  • I look down and take inventory, and then brush off with my hands the ashen residue left from the fallen beast.†   (source)
  • As Eddie bent down beside him, the kid looked up with dull eyes, ashen and powdery, not quite in register.†   (source)
  • It looked alarming, with sharp ashen-gray spikes, a gate made of spearheads just waiting to impale anyone who tried to clamber over.†   (source)
  • His face was ashen.†   (source)
  • Her skin was ashen; I found her pulse: sixty beats per minute.†   (source)
  • His face went from its livid red to an ashen white more quickly than I would have believed possible.†   (source)
  • Mama looked ashen.†   (source)
  • Face ashen, eyes wide, I sat like a bird locked in the eyes of a snake.†   (source)
  • Mommy sat by him in silence, her face ashen.†   (source)
  • He concentrated on the larger shape as it came closer, trying to make sense of what he was seeing, but it was only when the figure dropped onto the roof that he realized he was looking at an ashen-faced woman dressed entirely in black, wearing a long cloak of crow's wings.†   (source)
  • Burned ashen ground that had been drenched by the rains that preceded the fire.†   (source)
  • As she held the phone to her ear, she stood motionless and silent and her face grew ashen and drawn.†   (source)
  • Deborah gasped, her face suddenly ashen.†   (source)
  • Sorrow sharpened her ashen beauty, sorrow bent her narrow back.†   (source)
  • The lieutenant at the wheel was ashen.†   (source)
  • He was ashen, his eyes downcast as if hiding something.†   (source)
  • In accordance with his instructions, his ashen body was mingled with others in the communal cemetery and was not seen by anyone who loved him.†   (source)
  • Frode's face was ashen, and he looked as if he had had a cruel awakening.†   (source)
  • But in the dim, flickering light I saw the ashen pallor of death on her face.†   (source)
  • He stares at my mother, whose face is ashen and pale as she stares at the portscreen.†   (source)
  • Elliot's body lay a few feet away, his mouth parted, his skin ashen.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were half-lidded, and her pretty olive complexion was ashen.†   (source)
  • Rob, ashen-faced, announced that he and Mike Groom would hurry to Base Camp at dawn to coordinate Tenzing's rescue.†   (source)
  • Chubs was next to her, his face ashen.†   (source)
  • His eyes were closed, his face was an ashen colour, and there were beads of sweat on his forehead.†   (source)
  • Haunted, ashen, lost.†   (source)
  • Chase held my hand as we watched them reappear, one by one, ashen as ghosts.†   (source)
  • It was fluid loss from sweating, and his face was ashen.†   (source)
  • When we asked her if she would be willing to return to Kuala Lumpur and help us find the brothel, she turned ashen.†   (source)
  • But at this moment, with Sister Mary Joseph Praise's lips ashen, her breathing shallow, her eyes seeing past him, her unrelenting bleeding, and then with Matron having passed the baton to him, Stone was speechless.†   (source)
  • With these few mouthfuls of hot water, I had probably given him more satisfaction than during my entire childhood ... He was lying on the boards, ashen, his lips pale and dry, shivering.†   (source)
  • Canaan Baptist Church, a brooding, ashen giant, sat in the middle of a block of rundown private homes.†   (source)
  • The Count's frozen face was petrified and ashen and the blood still poured down the parallel cuts.†   (source)
  • Cedric looks ashen.†   (source)
  • Maybe Malachi was wrong," Isabelle suggested, after a quick look at Jace's ashen face.†   (source)
  • Naked and ashen, he leaped from the bed, and with a flying tackle, grabbed his wife around the waist, and they hit the floor.†   (source)
  • Near the end of the second night, Helgrind had appeared in the distance: a mass of splintered columns, vague and ominous in the ashen light that precedes dawn.†   (source)
  • Marlena is ashen.†   (source)
  • "You're fine, you're fine," I said, sliding around to her other side, by Cameron who was looking kind of ashen.†   (source)
  • Milo let out a long, melancholy wail and staggered back, beads of perspiration popping out suddenly all over his ashen face.†   (source)
  • At first they were hard to see, tangled as they were with debris and as gray as the ashen mud.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bonn looked positively ashen.†   (source)
  • One charred corpse, outside the ashen shell of Mother's sept, sat with his arms drawn up and his hands balled into hard black fists, as if to punch anyone who dared approach him.†   (source)
  • She shook her head, ashen faced.†   (source)
  • The world is grey, the mountains old, The forge's fire is ashen-cold No harp is wrung, no hammer falls: The darkness dwells in Durin's halls The shadow lies upon his tomb In Moria, in Khazad-dum.†   (source)
  • But what most astonished us both was the ashen quality of her facial skin.†   (source)
  • Martyn's face was ashen.†   (source)
  • From where I sit on the field, he's a bizarre specter, so frail and ashen.†   (source)
  • Villiers' stunning wife got out first, extending her hand for Jacqueline Lavier, who emerged, ashen, on the pavement.†   (source)
  • "They camped here last night," he says, pointing at the ashen remains of a campfire.†   (source)
  • The mashed potatoes she whipped up from water and ashen powder, the chicken legs she shook in bags of spicy bread crumbs then baked at 350 degrees, the frozen carrots she boiled and served with imitation butter.†   (source)
  • We saw that our faces were ashen, entirely drained of all the hot and imperfect colors that show life.†   (source)
  • But when he turned and saw her ashen face on the stairs, he knew.†   (source)
  • She came in all ashen-faced and swollen-eyed this morning.†   (source)
  • Striving to block out the voices of the raucous group, Joe searched his ashen eyes in the mirror, wondering what his motives had been when he sent the boy to scope out the men in the Hawaiian shirts.†   (source)
  • My father was sitting at the table, his face ashen, his cheeks hollow, his eyes red, looking as he had when he had visited me in the hospital.†   (source)
  • I walk to the small, windowless office where Eduardo and Helda were found, half expecting to see the ashen outline of their bodies, but nothing is there.†   (source)
  • Slowly, one by one, the flames gave up their colour and dropped, until at last there were none left-only a glowing heap, ashen-edged.†   (source)
  • Carter's face turned ashen.†   (source)
  • The nails were white, the face ashen, and the eyes fixed on his face.†   (source)
  • Somewhere near Fort Lee, I caught a reflected glimpse of my ashen, unhappy face superimposed against a panorama of filling stations and drive-ins and tried to close my eyes and mind to the horror of existence.†   (source)
  • For all his pot belly and his ashen skin, he throws on his bikini and parades himself at the edge of the pool.†   (source)
  • There was some blood on his sleeve by then, but he smiled constantly, and the warriors behind the warriors he killed were ashen.†   (source)
  • During this, MORE'S face goes ashen and his hand creeps up to his throat in an unconscious gesture of fear and protection†   (source)
  • If everything could just have stopped then, before she had to lean back, kneeling in the sand, and look at his ashen face, the mud crusting him.†   (source)
  • Her face turns ashen and she seems to have ceased breathing.†   (source)
  • Fernando stares at Christina, his face ashen.†   (source)
  • Both are small in stature with ashen skin and black hair.†   (source)
  • But in what seemed like one second he was back again, looking ashen.†   (source)
  • It grew taller, it stretched its ashen limbs.†   (source)
  • Courtney gasped, her face suddenly ashen.†   (source)
  • Peter was ashen as the task bar inched forward.†   (source)
  • Ben's face turned from shocked to ashen as he looked at me.†   (source)
  • His eyes are closed, his face is ashen gray, and his lips are blue from the cold.†   (source)
  • Sacha's complexion was ashen but for the bruised blotches on her jaw.†   (source)
  • He remained on the ground, trembling and ashen-faced, his mouth shut very tight.†   (source)
  • There was a moon somewhere beyond the ashen overcast and they could just make out the trees.†   (source)
  • That is why the Tehlin priests wear robes of ashen grey.†   (source)
  • It took two days to cross that ashen scabland.†   (source)
  • To the right and left, Dany glimpsed places where the grass was burned and ashen.†   (source)
  • Simon was ashen, but before Clary could reassure him, the front door banged open.†   (source)
  • "Two tickets to Paris," said Holland, his face ashen.†   (source)
  • The doctors looked ashen as they began to carry her out of the house.†   (source)
  • His face was ashen and his eyes were red, but he wasn't cut or bruised.†   (source)
  • Might have stopped, had I noticed how her face had turned ashen.†   (source)
  • Katarina was ashen-faced, clutching the reins as she stared at the broken malakhim.†   (source)
  • He wore a lint-colored suit that matched his gray hair and his ashen face.†   (source)
  • Jacob asked anxiously, touching my ashen cheek.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Scheisskopf's wife had turned ashen in disbelief and was ogling him with alarm.†   (source)
  • His cheeks were sunken, his eyes were red, and his face was ashen.†   (source)
  • When John received a telegraph late that evening, he came to our rooms somewhat ashen.†   (source)
  • His reddish-blond payers dangled from the edge of the gurney; his face was ashen.†   (source)
  • Livvy was ashen; Ty was clutching her shirt with a death grip.†   (source)
  • "I thought—" Chubs was the one to answer, his face ashen.†   (source)
  • "What I'm claiming," Jenks said, ashen faced, "is that I'm being set up."†   (source)
  • In winter his mother put Jergens Lotion on his face to keep the skin from becoming ashen.†   (source)
  • Oreale expunged a lungful of air, his face ashen as he stared at the weapon.†   (source)
  • He slid his hand along the smooth ashen shaft of his axe and wondered if that day was drawing nigh.†   (source)
  • Startled, Havilland looked up as Edward McAllister, his face ashen, walked rapidly into the room.†   (source)
  • And then Mike stumbled out of the bathroom, his face ashen and covered in sweat.†   (source)
  • You're joking," said Miss Boon, looking ashen-faced.†   (source)
  • His eyes lit up, a smile, like a grimace, illuminated his ashen face.†   (source)
  • His ashen pallor was his own, the result of substantial loss of blood.†   (source)
  • Major Danby stood barring the door, waving everyone else away in ashen silence.†   (source)
  • Lizzie was looking straight at me, her face ashen.†   (source)
  • Yossarian swore at Milo and held two aspirins out to ashen lips unable to receive them.†   (source)
  • His face was red again now, the ashen look gone completely.†   (source)
  • Ron was still ashen-faced and silent.†   (source)
  • His face was ashen.†   (source)
  • Entering the common room, Harry looked around, and to his surprise he saw Ron sitting ashen-faced in a distant corner.†   (source)
  • He could feel his face had gone ashen.†   (source)
  • Around the end of February an old woman with an ashen look arrived in Macondo riding a donkey loaded down with brooms.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza never found relief from her last memory of her aunt on the afternoon when she said goodbye in the doorway, burning with fever inside her brown habit, bony and ashen, and then disappeared into the drizzle in the little park, carrying all that she owned in life: her spinster's sleeping mat and enough money for a month, wrapped in a handkerchief that she clutched in her fist.†   (source)
  • Lena's face was ashen.†   (source)
  • The boy from District 1, Cato and the girl from District 2, and a scrawny, ashen-skinned boy who must be from District 3.†   (source)
  • She looks ashen.†   (source)
  • Petchkin was ashen.†   (source)
  • Her skin was ashen.†   (source)
  • His dreams ended as he faced that ashen, foamy, dirty sea, which had not merited the risks and sacrifices of the adventure.†   (source)
  • So the Shadow went to his master and reached out to him with ashen hands.... How soundlessly it moved, that terrible, gigantic figure!†   (source)
  • At the end of three months his hair was ashen, his old waxed mustache poured down beside his colorless lips, but, on the other hand, his eyes were once more the burning coals that had startled those who had seen him born and that in other days had made chairs rock with a simple glance.†   (source)
  • I can still see her plumpish hands folded on the table, though, and the disturbing shade of her nail polish: an ashen, silvery color, something between lavender and blue.†   (source)
  • A vast low swale where ferns and hydrangeas and wild orchids lived on in ashen effigies which the wind had not yet reached.†   (source)
  • But just as one of them was stretching out his claws, the one with eyes as big as saucers, a new figure came out of the gray void, hissing like a flame, ashen-gray and faceless, seized the Wild Thing, and tore it into scraps of paper.†   (source)
  • He trailed off, his face ashen.†   (source)
  • I felt ashen and woozy.†   (source)
  • Unsupported in the ashen air.†   (source)
  • "We have met before," the Dornish prince said lightly to Tyrion as they rode side by side along the kingsroad, past ashen fields and the skeletons of trees.†   (source)
  • I thought she was going to say something again, maybe O-ppah, how a girl would address her older brother or other male, but she just gazed at me instead, ashen-faced, as if in wonder whether I had uttered the words to her at all.†   (source)
  • She looks ashen and exhausted.†   (source)
  • The line broke into pieces then, with the Blackthorn children swarming Helen; Julian standing a little aside, his face blank and ashen, his free hand stroking Tavvy's curls.†   (source)
  • Ashen and spent, Pollard said that the rail had been slow, and that he had been unable to get outside without fouling Rosemont.†   (source)
  • They picked their way across the ashen wasteland as red lightning flashed overhead in the poisonous clouds.†   (source)
  • The consummate diplomat's face became suddenly ashen; his thin, usually tight lips were now parted, his dark brows arched, his eyes wide and hollow.†   (source)
  • Gunnar Björck, assistant chief of the immigration division of the Security Police, now on sick leave, sat ashen and ghostlike in the kitchen with its lovely view of Jungfrufjärden.†   (source)
  • Her face was ashen gray.†   (source)
  • Her face was ashen and grave.†   (source)
  • When the wash started angling too far toward the north, Melanie suggested that we forget the flat, ashen path and take the direct line to the third landmark, the eastern spur of rock that seemed to point, fingerlike, toward the cloudless sky.†   (source)
  • By the time Brienne and her companions were ferried over from the Quiet Isle, the survivors had fled and the dead had been given to the ground, but the corpse of the town itself remained, ashen and unburied.†   (source)
  • But when he came back late at night, the magic had all but abandoned his face and his step, the aura was gone, the lilt, and I could smell the animal of him as he walked past my bedroom door in the short hall, the stink of sweat and ruined vegetables and the ashen city penetrating me like an epochal sickness.†   (source)
  • Jocelyn was ashen.†   (source)
  • The ashen buildings were beginning to fade against the gentle blanketing of the furry gray snow coming from the darkening sky.†   (source)
  • Richter looked ashen.†   (source)
  • Her face was ashen.†   (source)
  • Her cheeks were ashen.†   (source)
  • As we walked across the dirt landing strip to await a second flight into Kathmandu, Stuart, Caroline, and I were approached by three ashen-faced Japanese men.†   (source)
  • I say mercifully because it was never my nature to harbor such thoughts, which have always been near-caustic to me, but in respect to the doctor a vital, searing charge was propelling me, an ashen, bitter hate whose taste I no longer abhorred.†   (source)
  • His mouth was set in its habitual glower, the corners bent downward in perfect convexity, and his ashen head blended seamlessly into the white clouds overhead.†   (source)
  • He gazed across the ashen plains.†   (source)
  • Shiva was ashen, silent.†   (source)
  • Trainer George Mohr remembered that Woolf sometimes rode while appearing strangely ashen, while Woolf's friend Sonny Greenberg recalled incidents in which he found the rider slumped in the jockeys' room, too ill to speak.†   (source)
  • The man turned ashen.†   (source)
  • The old man's face turned ashen, the pounding in his chest growing so loud he could barely hear the terrible things being said.†   (source)
  • The city struggled to free itself of its white burden, but the streets remained choked all the next day, and my father left in the evening for the rally, wearing a look of doom, his face ashen.†   (source)
  • His face was grim and ashen.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • They had reached a low ashen hill piled at the Mountain's foot; but from it there was no more escape.†   (source)
  • It was not easy for her to tell all this, she confessed to me, biting her lips and nervously fingering her drawn and ashen cheek; it was especially difficult to reveal one's lies after having so artfully created a perfect little cameo of paternal rectitude and decency: the fine socialist paterfamilias fretting over the coming terror, a man haloed with goodness in her portrait of a brave libertarian who had risked his life to save Jews in the ferocious Russian pogroms.†   (source)
  • Ever and anon the furnaces far below its ashen cone would grow hot and with a great surging and throbbing pour forth rivers of molten rock from chasms in its sides.†   (source)
  • Still far away, forty miles at least, they saw Mount Doom, its feet founded in ashen ruin, its huge cone rising to a great height, where its reeking head was swathed in cloud.†   (source)
  • Behind it there hung a vast shadow, ominous as a thunder-cloud, the veils of Barad-dur that was reared far way upon a long spur of the Ashen Mountains thrust down from the North.†   (source)
  • Pippin looked up, and it seemed to him that the sky had grown ashen-grey, as if a vast dust and smoke hung above them, and light came dully through it.†   (source)
  • A few miles to the north-east the foothills of the Ashen Mountains stood like sombre grey ghosts, behind which the misty northern heights rose like a line of distant cloud hardly darker than the lowering sky.†   (source)
  • Their faces were ashen gray after the long, uneasy vigil.†   (source)
  • His face was ashen and his whole body trembled.†   (source)
  • The curls about her neck and ears were pale, too—quite ashen.†   (source)
  • We saw the ashen light behind the curtains.†   (source)
  • Her white face had an ashen tinge, and her dull eyes had grown bright and staring.†   (source)
  • He had a famous, calm, deeply concerned face, shaven, ashen, lean, lit gravely now and then by humor.†   (source)
  • She turned swiftly to the four negroes who huddled in the doorway, their black faces a peculiarly ashen shade.†   (source)
  • There was the silent apparition of an ashen-coloured ship for instance, come, gone; there was a purplish stain upon the bland surface of the sea as if something had boiled and bled, invisibly, beneath.†   (source)
  • His face was still ashen white.†   (source)
  • It was ashen white.†   (source)
  • Light fell a moment on the ashen corpsiness of his face and on the liquid Sicilian poison of his eyes.†   (source)
  • The skin was sallow with a dead ashen tinge; beneath, the delicate bone-carving of face and skull traced itself clearly: the cadaverous tightness of those who are about to die had been checked.†   (source)
  • He seemed to be fairly old for his moustache was ashen-grey.†   (source)
  • "Come," said Silver, struggling with his ashen lips to get the word out; "this won't do.†   (source)
  • And then Joan was positive that the face of Roberts had turned ashen gray.†   (source)
  • Lifting her eyes she saw—ashen, shaken, stricken—not the Bishop but the man!†   (source)
  • The youth looked keenly at the ashen face.†   (source)
  • But there it was—ashen pale, raced over quickly by tapering vast clouds.†   (source)
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  • There were days when the ashen overcast thinned and now the standing trees along the road made the faintest of shadows over the snow.   (source)
    ashen = grayish in color
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