Palish

I saw the moon, only as a swaying trail of palish fire, that varied from a mere line of light to a nebulous path, and then dwindled again, disappearing periodically. ❋ Unknown (2007)

His nose changed from the natural copper hue which it had acquired from many a comfortable cup of claret or sack, into a palish brassy tint, and his teeth chattered with apprehension at the unveiled audacity of my proposal, which seemed to place the barefaced plunderer before him in full atrocity. ❋ Unknown (2005)

An efflorescence of a palish red colour soon appeared about the parts where the matter was inserted, and spread itself rather extensively, but died away in a few days without producing any variolous symptoms. 6 She has since been repeatedly employed as a nurse to smallpox patients, without experiencing any ill consequences. ❋ Unknown (2005)

An efflorescence of a palish red colour soon appeared about the parts where the matter was inserted, and spread itself rather extensively, but died away in a few days without producing any variolous symptoms. ❋ Unknown (2005)

At their first appearance they are commonly of a palish blue, or rather of a colour somewhat approaching to livid, and are surrounded by an erysipelatous inflammation. ❋ Unknown (2005)

‘Madam, I am of your opinion,’ says the second; ‘I think her face has a palish cast too much on the delicate order.’ ❋ Unknown (2004)

The commissaris had never seen a pink, or a yellow, or a palish-green gable house before. ❋ Van De Wetering, Janwillem (1976)

He glanced swiftly around him like one half afraid, and Gertie saw he looked palish, as if he had been sick or some time indoors. ❋ Harriette Arnow (1954)

The flower stems are a palish green, with purplish markings, are twice branched and furnished with floral leaves; the latter have ample stipules and seven longish divisions, which are well spread out, distinctly veined underneath, and coarsely toothed. ❋ John Wood (N/A)

Head somewhat irregular in shape, broad at the base, and terminating in rather a sharp point; color palish-green, the ribs and nerves of the leaves paler. ❋ Fearing Burr (N/A)

This external tegument of the berry is closer than the preceding ones; it contains in the very small cells two coloring matters, the one of a palish yellow, the other of an orange yellow, and according as the one or the other matter predominates, the wheat is of a more or less intense yellow color; hence come all the varieties of wheat known in commerce as white, reddish, or red wheats. ❋ Various (N/A)

These blossoms are a palish purple, but sometimes the potato flowers are white. ❋ Arthur Owens Cooke (N/A)

'Madam looks palish,' he observed to Johnnie, who was escorting him about; 'I doubt she's not very hearty yet.' ❋ Florence Wilford (N/A)

He had a large palish face and bleached eyebrows that met in a thicket over his snub nose. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1940)

He was a short spare man, very gentle in his movements, a toneless sort of man of a palish gray cast, who always wore sad-colored clothing. ❋ Various (1915)

"Ye be palish this marnin ', Peter!" said he, dabbing at me suddenly with his pipe-stem; "shouldn't wonder if you was to tell me as your appetite was bad; come now -- ye didn't eat much of a breakfus 'this marnin', did ye?" ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)

"Looks a bit palish, though, John!" said Natty Bell, shaking his head, ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)