“With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.”
Louis Auchincloss
“How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.”
Jean Ingelow
“His skin was pale white, he lost his hair, could barely talk, was coughing, and always had to go in for treatments. His assistants were basically running the team, but he would come to the games. He get upset at an umpire, and he'd try to get up and yell and he'd fall out of his chair.”
Dave Benyo
“The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.”
William Manchester
“The moon's an arrant thief,And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.”
William Shakespeare
“We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things and yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy for us”
Mark Twain
“I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.”
Willa Sibert Cather
