Verb (used without object), verb (used with object) : to pale at the sight of blood. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : outside the pale of his jurisdiction. From Dictionary.com.
Enough ..... interest in her is certainly "paling". From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Was Palin's resignation a smart move?] Reference
Before it is a little garden with flowers, and a paling which is painted. From Wordnik.com. [The Daisy] Reference
Hawkins put up the first "paling" fence that had ever adorned the village; and he did not stop there, but whitewashed it. From Wordnik.com. [The Gilded Age A tale of today] Reference
He tied his horse to the paling which surrounded the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
Boy, howdy, talk about paling around with terrorists. From Wordnik.com. [Robert J. Elisberg: Sarah Palin's Small Town Values] Reference
He moves restlessly, his fair face flushing and paling. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
In the sky, at the back of the idol, was the paling of dawn. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
Sitting down with paling cheeks and trembling limbs, she thought. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
"Far from England" -- Margaret repeated the words with paling lips. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
She stood trembling -- her face slowly paling to a marble whiteness. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
Sudden flushing or paling is sometimes seen in disease of the brain. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
"Not me, Raidmaster!" the double exclaimed hurriedly, his face paling. From Wordnik.com. [The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel] Reference
"A plot!" exclaimed Mrs. Dare, her face paling and her voice trembling. From Wordnik.com. [The Dare Boys of 1776] Reference
"Oh, dear me!" gasped Ruth, paling unwontedly, for she was not by nature. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
And now Slone saw, in the paling sky to the east, that dawn was at hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
Standing on opposite sides, each with a hand upon the paling, the two met. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
He found pieces of paling, and laths, and shingles which suited his ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
"Oh, Letty! to-day!" exclaims Molly, paling and flushing, and paling again. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
She re-read the letter from beginning to end, her face flushing and paling. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
"Then -- then it's the same thing as last time?" she said, her face paling once more. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
George quietly interposes, his countenance paling, and his eyes wandering in excitement. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
The voice was becoming weaker in every sentence, the flush was paling on the countenance. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Barbara was staring at her mother with wide open brown eyes, her cheeks paling, then flushing. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail] Reference
The yard was enclosed by a paling fence and from the gate a double border of box led to the door. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
It was evident that the paling had been run across the garden, which must have been very extensive. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
Real light, not the soft gleam of the rotting wood walls which was already paling feebly in comparison. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
"I must try to go down and fetch them up," was the other's reply, with paling cheeks but resolute eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Heiress of Wyvern Court] Reference
"Have no fear for me," replied Natalie, paling slightly, but with a firm set of her round, dimpled chin. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
"I hope always to be a good comrade," returned Grace, a faint color stealing into her lately-paling cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
The sunlight changes as the day wears on, and so this play of color changes, -- glowing, fading, paling, flaming. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
A Landscape, with a cottage near the middle, on either side of which is a tree, and in front an enclosure of paling. From Wordnik.com. [Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt.] Reference
Beyond was the long line of paling; the flag with the eagle floating; the sentinels with their muskets over their shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cross] Reference
Randal sprang from the paling, a movement which frightened the contemplative pigs, and set them off squalling and scampering. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
A blue-coated trooper sat with his back against the paling of a trim white fence, one lax hand still holding the reins of a horse. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
They reached the paling -- the sentinels; the flag with the eagle floated over their heads; then a click, and the gate closed behind them. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cross] Reference
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