These blossoms are a palish purple, but sometimes the potato flowers are white. From Wordnik.com. [Wildflowers of the Farm] Reference
'Madam looks palish,' he observed to Johnnie, who was escorting him about; 'I doubt she's not very hearty yet.'. From Wordnik.com. [Holiday Tales] Reference
He glanced swiftly around him like one half afraid, and Gertie saw he looked palish, as if he had been sick or some time indoors. From Wordnik.com. [The Dollmaker] Reference
'I think her face has a palish cast too much on the delicate order.'. From Wordnik.com. [Selected English Letters]
"Looks a bit palish, though, John!" said Natty Bell, shaking his head. From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Gentleman] Reference
There was a Miss Wright, a meek little girl, palish, on whom her father doted. From Wordnik.com. [A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day] Reference
He had a large palish face and bleached eyebrows that met in a thicket over his snub nose. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Peer]
I noticed he was palish, and seemed all of a shake, but he did not answer when I called out to him. '. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Max] Reference
The ground-colour is a palish-green stone-colour, greener in some, and somewhat more creamy in others. From Wordnik.com. [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference
'Taint no use wishin' you good looks, for you're purty as a pink now -- one of them rather palish kind. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Boston] Reference
The people are, nearly all of them, tall and fat, with palish hair, prominent lips, and very thick ears. From Wordnik.com. [Ideal Commonwealths] Reference
He stood there, the hands lightly laid one upon the other, his face palish certainly, but not colourless. From Wordnik.com. [Dawn of All] Reference
We must have preferred it because it seemed so much more for a picayune than the frothy, effervescent, palish soda water. From Wordnik.com. [Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,] Reference
The auroral light is of a palish green colour, but we now see distinctly a red flush preceding the motion of any bright part. From Wordnik.com. [Scott's Last Expedition Volume I] Reference
The blood of life is in your veins; you haven't got the sickly, palish look that the girls have who stay indoors half the time. From Wordnik.com. [Dixie Hart] Reference
According to Waterhouse it is "palish-ashy grey; the back mottled with dusky and yellowish-white; the back of neck pale rufous brown.". From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
He was a short spare man, very gentle in his movements, a toneless sort of man of a palish gray cast, who always wore sad-colored clothing. From Wordnik.com. [Sundry Accounts] Reference
A drooping, palish mustache, hiding a mouth that had lost too many teeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Rich Little Poor Boy] Reference
A palish-red, and are slightly furrowed, as well as streaked with pale-white between the furrows. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
"They've been talking about 'the Land'" -- he raised his hands and ran them through his palish hair -- "'the Land!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Freelands] Reference
Oh! I shall know him again; he's a little thin, palish fellow, quite young. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune of the Rougons] Reference
A trace of palish liquid remained. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
The palish asters along the wood. From Wordnik.com. [Songs from Vagabondia] Reference
"I thought his hands were palish for's trade.". From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: England] Reference
They were just a blur of a palish, dirty green. From Wordnik.com. [The House on the Borderland: Chapter 16] Reference
A palish fur. From Wordnik.com. [4.50 From Paddington]
‘I thought his hands were palish for’s trade.’. From Wordnik.com. [Wessex Tales] Reference
Flowers palish blue, bell-shaped, crowded, nearly sessile, and axillary or terminal. From Wordnik.com. [General directions for collecting and drying medicinal substances of the vegetable kingdom : list and description of indigenous plants, etc., their medicinal properties, forms of administration, and doses,] Reference
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