pale

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He stood in a pool of shadow by a bookcase, plump, pale- faced, round-shouldered, clutching a crossbow in soft powdered hands.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Leaves � to � in. long, rather slender, needle-shaped, sharp-pointed, incurved, pale- or glaucous-green; branchlets smooth.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Nevertheless, here was a medicine-priest of the pale- faces boldly proclaiming the fact, and great was the wonder of all who heard, thereat!

From Oak Openings by Cooper, James Fenimore

He was conscious only of her hands in his hands and of her pale- brown eyes and of the bright sun-splotches and the green shadows fluttering all about them.

From Three Soldiers by Dos Passos, John

Then we have the "poor, mindless, pale- faced maniac boy," who                  "Rolls his vacant eye To greet the glowing fancies of the sky."

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron