Slowly the exposed patches of skin drained chalk-white. From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
“The worms don't eat?” whispered Valeria, chalk-white. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
The ceiling is chalk-white, the walls have an ochre painting. From Wordnik.com. [3. Calculation of Illuminance] Reference
When Denise and her mum got in the car she saw I was chalk-white. From Wordnik.com. [John Higgins: 'It's the hardest thing ? people doubting me'] Reference
Crowds of elves lined the highway that was chalk-white in the moonlight. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons Of A Lost Star]
"I can see Chic coming down the aisle now, with his face chalk-white and --". From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
From across the ring his eyes looked like stark black holes in his chalk-white face. From Wordnik.com. [Knockdown]
Near parliament, U.N. peacekeepers poked their heads out of chalk-white armored vehicles. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Most empty shells one is likely to encounter are chalk-white like the one pictured below. From Wordnik.com. [Land snails of Turkey: Paramastus spratti] Reference
VENICE BEACH, CALIFORNIA: chalk-white sky, waves the color of lead, sand like wet cement. From Wordnik.com. [Norse Code Preview (Chapter 2) - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games] Reference
Her father's face was dark red, and the fur border on his hood was chalk-white with frost. From Wordnik.com. [12/01/2003 - 01/01/2004] Reference
But there was no doubt a man stood watching them, a man with beady eyes and chalk-white forehead. From Wordnik.com. [Starship]
He went to the lavatory to finish emptying his bladder and saw himself chalk-white in the mirror. From Wordnik.com. [Cal]
One moment a rampart of cliffs ahead glows chalk-white, flickering lightly as if composed of flames. From Wordnik.com. [Memory Wall] Reference
The injured gentleman had blond hair and a handsome face that was chalk-white now and etched in pain. From Wordnik.com. [Rebellious Desire] Reference
He seemed so much in earnest that for a second the color flushed the chalk-white portions of her cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
It hit him like a blow; he went chalk-white, and gasped, and then he turned on his heel and hurried off. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman In The Great Game]
He put a crease in the chalk-white face where the instructions had said Fold and handed it to Melrose Plant. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Silent]
His face had turned chalk-white, his hands sweeping across the pine table top and smashing pottery to shards. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawk Eternal]
And as the canoa spread her sail to tack back, already a delicate film of shadow was over the chalk-white lake. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
Somehow Clifford got home, but landed in a wilted heap on the big couch, chalk-white, and sick beyond expression. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
But it struck her like a blow; she stood glaring, her face chalk-white, unable to speak, so I carried on, amiably. From Wordnik.com. [Flash For Freedom]
Razor landed in the palm of the chalk-white hand, settling down as easily as possible, so as not to jar his passengers. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons Of A Lost Star]
Its chalk-white halls, which cheerful stand — Pleasant thy own pavilions too — Its fields and orchards fair to view. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
He glowered at the old man, his own cup of wine clutched so tightly that the knuckles of his dark hand were chalk-white. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Fearless]
The young Irish girl reminded her of a Ford Madox Brown model with her chalk-white skin and disproportionately large eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
In her face, which had gone chalk-white, I saw not guilt, but horror; and yet, a kind of knowledge, a little, even if not enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
Just before the cell doors closed, Wesley stuffed the man's head into the opening, his hands turning chalk-white with the strain. From Wordnik.com. [A Bomb Built in Hell]
The skin peeled back, falling in tatters, revealing the chalk-white bone of his skull, and underneath, the gray-brown folds of his brain. From Wordnik.com. [Bring On the Night] Reference
His face was chalk-white in spots and his eyes were stiff in their sockets. From Wordnik.com. [The Cost] Reference
I remember her chalk-white face as she met me at the door upon my return home one night. From Wordnik.com. [One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America] Reference
Lumbering gloomily towards us were a couple - he in full-length leather coat and chalk-white make-up, she. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Harper books applause at old haunt] Reference
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