• Her skin was so pale as to appear luminous in the low light.

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  • The actress "is so pale and not moving in there that she looks like she's dead, " said Robbie von Kampen, 20, a philosophy major at Bard College, north of New York City.

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  • So still in the flower beds, so pale.

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  • And every tunnel only took her to dozens of other tunnels, some of which went on for miles, and ended in points of light so distant and pale they were like stars in other galaxies.

    NEWYORKER: Ziggurat

  • They want Mrs Plavsic to defeat the Pale clique, so that their efforts to knit Bosnia together have some chance of success.

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  • Order a sample platter so you can try everything from pale ale to organic lager.

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  • The reader does not rise from his table happy and replete so much as stand up suddenly, pale and reeling.

    ECONOMIST: New fiction

  • Bolton looked a pale imitation of the side that so entertained in their FA Cup game against Tottenham on Sunday, their lethargy at odds with the precarious nature of their league position.

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  • But what is strangest in all this fuss is the idea that simply by making them he has put himself far beyond the pale of respectable discourse, as so many of his critics appear to believe.

    ECONOMIST: The environment

  • Generally I enjoy a good instrumental, but when the vocals feel integral to the sound and feel of so many of these tracks, the instrumental versions pale in comparison.

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  • Driving down the highway, seeing the pale spring sunlight on the rocks that we so recently looked at together.

    NEWYORKER: Amundsen

  • He rejected tubular steel as too susceptible to glare and heat and cold and went on to experiment with the steam techniques that produced his familiar pale, satiny, bentwood birch furniture, so pleasing to the hand and eye.

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  • Her brother the Duke of Gloucester who led her was so shocked at seeing her in such a situation that he looked as pale as death and as if he was ready to faint away.

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  • So long as the boom lasts, America's mild economic anxieties will pale next to Japan's.

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  • Gettle likes a 1950s palette, so she chose robin's-egg-blue paint for the main hallway, pale yellow for the kitchen and pink in the dining room.

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  • So while you're sitting around with the other patients in your pajamas and everybody's pale and thin and you're waiting for your turn to get the gamma rays, you think about a lot of things.

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  • Flowers in containers are so mobile and easy to manage, especially since one can buy them already in a pot (perfect for the pale-green fingered).

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