pale

"We see people who are thin, pale, and tired-looking," said Danny Clark, who volunteers at Hope Kitchen in Hastings, East Sussex.

It has a crest that reads NHS embroidered in pale yellow stitching, and brassy state championship pins that look vibrant against the jacket’s black fabric.

The man’s face was thin and pale, with raw, weather-scarred patches on his cheeks.

They were long and slim fingered, like two pale, deadly spiders crawling toward her.

She disentangled herself from the sobbing widow, and the little pink circles of her cheeks turned pale as she examined the ruined shoulder of her dress.