"Hey AI, my wife was the one that said you were 'ashy'!". From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference
Lofty monuments, slender steeples emerged from the gloom; a kind of ashy light was spread abroad. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern] Reference
This is known as the ashy light. From Wordnik.com. [Astronomy for Amateurs] Reference
Then his jaw dropped, and his face became ashy-grey. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
'Good-by;' the words came through ashy lips, a half sob. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Dark eyes were sunken deep in an emaciated and ashy face. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
Owen, watching, took her pallor for the ashy hue of guilt. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Soul] Reference
Natalie's ashy face and the word croup, acted like a talisman. From Wordnik.com. [Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma] Reference
Her face had become so small and her complexion was ashy gray. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference
Mr. Goldworthy started to his feet, and his cheeks grew ashy pale. From Wordnik.com. [Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life] Reference
Then Gabe looked up, and his face turned ashy pale when he saw Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School] Reference
A deep groan burst from the seaman's lips, and his face was ashy pale. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamentable Fate of the Victim of His Passion, and the Shadow's Punishment] Reference
The captain, his face ashy white, submitted and unlocked the cell door. From Wordnik.com. [Next Door, Next World] Reference
The clouds remind me of ashy marshmallows I found in a fire pit yesterday. From Wordnik.com. [The Scavenger] Reference
The old man sat pale and ashy, but driving like the born reinsman that he was. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Her lips were ashy, and in her white face only the sapphire eyes seemed alive. From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
Crops seem to thrive in the ashy soil and volcanic rock makes for sturdy runways. From Wordnik.com. [Christine Negroni: Swimming in What?] Reference
Her face was ashy, but her eyes got bright when she saw my brother and me come in. From Wordnik.com. [Prom Date] Reference
They'd wash me and grease my legs with lard, keep them from looking ashy and rusty. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4] Reference
Through the ashy pallor they saw the features of the young man in the picture yonder. From Wordnik.com. [Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer] Reference
"Mercy!" gasped the Tory, turning black and ashy by turns, as that awful gulf yawned below. From Wordnik.com. [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference
His face was overspread with an ashy paleness, his eyes were closed, his lips blue and pinched. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
My ears anticipate the tense patter of gunfire, my nostrils strain for the ashy odor of cordite. From Wordnik.com. [Lockdown] Reference
He stared intently at his footprints in the ashy powder of the lunar soil. From Wordnik.com. [(Withheld) 1970] Reference
He suddenly grasped my arm, and pointed to the jungle, his teeth chattering -- his face ashy pale. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
The dawn light, dimmed by the morning mist, threw an ashy gray color over the faces of the Twelve. From Wordnik.com. [Men Called Him Master] Reference
That, toward the close of November, 1883, a thick shower of ashy matter fell at Queenstown, South Africa. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
The poor face grew ashy pale as I talked, and the man threw up his arms as if his agony was mastering him. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
It was a noble specimen of the bird, tinted with brown, ashy white, and blue, with eyes of deep orange color. From Wordnik.com. [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference
But -- he halted suddenly in the middle of the room -- his face grew ashy pale -- his limbs trembled with terror!. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
I could see my hands, our uniforms, our brass, glinting in the ashy light that was like nothing I'd ever seen before. From Wordnik.com. [Pacific Light] Reference
A coarser ink will act in a similar manner, but make the water somewhat opaque, with a blue-black, or dull, ashy color. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference
Griffith turned black, and then ashy pale, under this venomous tongue, and went away without a word, looking dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference
All three looked so miserable, so ashy-grey and worn out, that never did human greatness appear to me so little worth. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
"Karlbeck" and "Lord Denton" sprang to their feet, their faces ashy pale, as they stood grasping the backs of their chairs. From Wordnik.com. [L.P.M. : the end of the Great War] Reference
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