His wife, always palely appealing. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A palely entertaining show. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used without object), verb (used with object) : to pale at the sight of blood. From Dictionary.com.
The flames of the candles shone through it, palely. From Wordnik.com. [The House on the Borderland] Reference
His face blurred palely in front of me; it was Marsden. From Wordnik.com. [Madam Will You Talk]
Here he now stood and stared at the palely glittering water. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
In the level red light, her face was palely rosy, her eyes afire. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
Across the floor toward the Cones glided a palely lustrous sphere. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
The Keeper turned — I saw its palely lustrous blue metallic back. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
In the dim light, his face showed palely, and he seemed much agitated. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Pirates] Reference
To Denoriel's surprise he could "see" a very faint palely glowing haze. From Wordnik.com. [This Scepter'd Isle]
Finally a palely shimmering barrier of metal appeared to bar their way. From Wordnik.com. [Galactic Patrol]
A flame flickered palely on the left, and we found Musa our watchman there. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
The e - and p-rings moved palely through the bit of blue sky visible overhead. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
Each is intensely realistic, yet, as in the cameo, palely flushed with romance. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
He rolled over and looked toward the narrow window where dawn showed palely pink. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Their warriors swarmed about the walls, their mail gleaming palely under the moon. From Wordnik.com. [Wings in the Night]
The street lamps were suddenly turned on, the bulbs glowing palely in the fading light. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Cert]
Its head flickers palely with the moonlight that Wayland Smith hammered into the steel. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
The legs turned to latex to match the face, and the lids palely shut inside the eyeholes. From Wordnik.com. [Bonecrack]
The weird eyes lit palely as he gazed beyond the tapestried walls to far, invisible horizons. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquering Sword of Conan]
When he and she came out on to the riding, there was Mrs Bolton faltering palely towards them. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
Down in Miraz's camp men woke, stared palely in one another's faces, and grasped their weapons. From Wordnik.com. [Prince Caspian]
She had leaned forward, and the light from the dash lay palely upon her face, softening its austerity. From Wordnik.com. [The Servant Problem] Reference
The boots shone as glossily, the gloves as palely, and the ski jacket and jodhpurs were still immaculate. From Wordnik.com. [Bonecrack]
It opened to reveal a tall and lugubrious young man with long light-brown hair and a palely anxious face. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Prey]
The valley filled with a palely shimmering radiance which dropped like veils upon it, hiding all within it. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
The stars shone palely and it seemed as though a mist had suddenly been drawn over the surface of the river. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
Hipcroft, gazing palely at them from the distance of the yard or two to which he had withdrawn with a start. From Wordnik.com. [The Fiddler of the Reels] Reference
The two strained young faces gleamed palely in the chill dawnlight -- on each of them the impress of a stern resolution. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
Light came palely from globes set far above their heads in metal baskets, but the nature of that light remained a mystery. From Wordnik.com. [Witch World]
The huge globe, evidently reflecting palely the sun's light, mounted upward more rapidly than the moon ever crossed the heavens. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
But all through the day the snow continued to fall steadily, although the wind had died away and, at intervals, the sun shone palely. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Promise] Reference
She glanced along her shoulder at the boy, sitting palely quiet and a little aloof from the others, his upper lip purple and swollen. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
He pointed to the palely gleaming shape of the Shangri-la, one moment on our quarter, the next dead astern as we swung on our anchor. From Wordnik.com. [When Eight Bells Toll]
A young German infantry soldier, dead, his face palely putty-like, his arms hanging loose, sat on a bench before a plain wooden table. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
During the last part the wind dropped and the sun came palely out; but by then the audience was bored, and waiting to see the slapstick. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
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