Then he checked himself and sat still, ashen-faced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Federation Of The Hub]

The screen was filled with two ashen-faced dead men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act of Treason]

The next morning, Daddy awoke, ashen-faced and weak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Borrowed Finery, A Memoir]

An ashen-faced winebearer was backing away from Dirrach.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic May Return]

By count three an ashen-faced Shaik just stared at the judge.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Hennessey nodded at the tearful lady, ashen-faced, wide-eyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

"Let's get out of here," said LuEllen, ashen-faced with anger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Empress File]

He put his handkerchief to his mouth and turned away, ashen-faced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

Her coach goes ashen-faced when the rink doctor gives him the news.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pies & Prejudice] Reference

My father, who never looks all that good these days, was ashen-faced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hi-Ya!] Reference

His comrade was still upright, though ashen-faced and chanting softly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Relentless]

Misty stormed out, followed by three ashen-faced, white-aproned maids.    From Wordnik.com.  [That’s Amore] Reference

"Should we double the guard, Magicka?" asked the ashen-faced sergeant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hand of Chaos]

Forrest almost took his head off and the man backed away, ashen-faced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Skin]

The ashen-faced technicians trembled as the soldiers cocked their guns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Krisztina Holly: In Praise of My Father] Reference

The launch reaches the ship and Sterghiades, ashen-faced, climbs aboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

They were all ashen-faced, he saw, and worse, a couple had been weeping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chosen Of The Gods]

The ashen-faced guard officer rushed in, nearly knocking the Warder down.    From Wordnik.com.  [DragonFlight]

Now she hovered over an ashen-faced, middle-aged man lying on a stretcher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mortal Remains]

Silvanoshei, white-lipped and ashen-faced, laid a hand, upon her shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons Of A Vanished Moon]

He emerged ashen-faced but wouldn't tell his friends what he had been told.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sudden Death] Reference

The directors nearest Lew at that end of the table leaned away, ashen-faced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Command Decision]

He remained on the ground, trembling and ashen-faced, his mouth shut very tight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]

At eleven the teacher appeared, ashen-faced, so grave was his responsibility that day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

After the briefing, "there were senators who were ashen-faced," said one staff member.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Plan Under Attack] Reference

The ashen-faced cleric nursed his broken hand and stumbled ahead, muttering to himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riverwind the Plainsman]

The remaining three hunters, ashen-faced, huddled together in a circle of Rathi lancers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nemesis]

Roland, sweating and ashen-faced, stood trembling; he seemed prepared to race off anyway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into the Labyrinth]

Directly outside her tent waited a group of men, an ashen-faced Lieutenant Hobson among them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stone of Tears]

The ashen-faced Kezankian stood a few feet away, staring in horror at the statues along the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Hunter]

Just four days into her stay, the notes make clear, McPherson was "" ashen-faced '' and feverish.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Death In Clearwater] Reference

The speaker was a big man who seemed huge just then, an ashen-faced man whose skin seemed to glow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

Behind a row of the ashen-faced women of Daut's family stood two hundred armed Albanian guerrillas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greater Albania?] Reference

The phrase "pale sot" makes the shark sound like an ashen-faced drunkard on the point of collapsing in a heap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-02-01] Reference

Afterwards an ashen-faced judge emerged, returned to his court and proceeded to sentence the American to death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

Finally, she told Lester Horner, who, disbelieving and ashen-faced, sent her away and told her that he, too, would pray about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Authority]

Kandar stood ashen-faced, trembling almost as much as the women, who writhed against their bonds and wailed with frantic despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Victorious]