Mudge was dicing several large, pale-hued jellyfish which had washed up on shore. From Wordnik.com. [The Time of the Transference]
There was some tawdry jewellery lying about, and several pairs of the pale-hued Parisian boots she invariably affected. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
The great canopy with its faintly coloured fringes seemed to sink lower and lower upon the garden beyond, until what had recently been a clear and pale-hued winter sky was left in a few silver ribbons and rags like a sickly sunset. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
On fast days he wore pale-hued garments, changed his food, and made a change in his apartment. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy] Reference
Tony, his sisters, fluttering over the daisies in pale-hued muslins, come out of their ever-open door, like pretty pigeons form a dovecote. From Wordnik.com. [Jackanapes] Reference
Montmartre, hung a network of extreme delicacy, fashioned as it were of pale-hued silk, and spread over a patch of sky as though for fishing in those tranquil waters. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Episode] Reference
She wore a very dainty gown of cream muslin with pale-hued roses on it ... a gown which would have seemed ridiculously juvenile on most women of her age, but which suited. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Avonlea] Reference
The full, lustrous face, with the bright black coronet, looked down like that of a divinity well pleased to be worshipped, on the pale-hued, small-featured face that was turned up to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Mill on the Floss] Reference
She was looking delightfully cool amidst the sultry heat of the scene, perfectly dressed in soft white muslin, with much adornment of delicate lace and pale-hued ribbon: but she was not looking happy. From Wordnik.com. [Vixen, Volume III.] Reference
The grass glows with a more vivid green, and, in answer to a ringing call from Tony, his sisters fluttering over the daisies in pale-hued muslins, come out of their ever-open door, like pretty pigeons from a dovecote. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference
And fellow Briton Hannah MacGibbon imagined her models as ballerinas, as she unveiled her new collection for Chloe, built around pale-hued chic dresses and pleated skirts, and drapes and minimalist overcoats in camel. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
The grass glows with a more vivid green, and, in answer to a ringing call from Tony, his sisters, fluttering over the daisies in pale-hued muslins, come out of their ever-open door, like pretty pigeons form a dovecote. From Wordnik.com. [Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories] Reference
The grass glows with a more vivid green, and, in answer to a ringing call from Tony, his sisters, fluttering over the daisies in pale-hued muslins, come out of their ever-open door, like pretty pigeons from a dovecote. From Wordnik.com. [Jackanapes] Reference
She wore a very dainty gown of cream muslin with pale-hued roses on it ... a gown which would have seemed ridiculously juvenile on most women of her age, but which suited Miss Lavendar so perfectly that you never thought about it at all. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Avonlea] Reference
The traveller from America who steams into Queenstown harbour in early summer is presented (for a consideration) with a cabbage-leaf full of pale-hued berries, sweet and juicy, any one of which would outbulk a dozen of those that used to grow in Virginia when Pocahontas was smitten with the charms of Captain John. From Wordnik.com. [Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things] Reference
Above the pale-hued emerald mould. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne,] Reference
On velvet moss and pale-hued flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
Like pale-hued clouds in autumn skies. From Wordnik.com. [Ramayana. English] Reference
The pale-hued maidenhair, with parsley green. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference
Looked at her pale-hued sister, dew-impearled. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne,] Reference
2) You can attach whatever euphemism you want — pale-hued - former-colonialist-countries-and-their-colonies-above-and-below-a-certain-latitude-bla-bla-bla. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Irony Watch: Islamic Solidarity Games Break Down Over Gulf Naming Dispute] Reference
The dress, the hat, the shoes, the gloves, the basket of pale-hued roses, were all perfect of their kind, and, to crown all, on the morning of the wedding there arrived two small morocco boxes, which, being opened, displayed two miniature gold watches, encircled with turquoise, and provided with blue enamel bows, by which they could be attached to the dress. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Trevor] Reference
Perhaps, again, some honest clerk, with twelve hundred francs a year, seeing every day the diligence the girl gave to her needle, and appreciating the purity of her life, was only waiting for improved prospects to unite one humble life with another, one form of toil to another, and to bring at any rate a man's arm and a calm affection, pale-hued like the flowers in the window, to uphold this home. From Wordnik.com. [A Second Home] Reference
Perhaps, again, some honest clerk, with twelve hundred francs a year, seeing every day the diligence the girl gave to her needle, and appreciating the purity of her life, was only waiting for improved prospects to unite one humble life with another, one form of toil to another, and to bring at any rate a man’s arm and a calm affection, pale-hued like the flowers in the window, to uphold this home. From Wordnik.com. [A Second Home] Reference
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