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In the morning the still world returned: the innocent waters, the ferocious mountains, the pale sky dotted with small, newborn clouds.
NEWYORKER: Naima
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The pale moonlit sky, seen through the branches of the rosewood tree, tilted back and forth like a bowl of swaying water.
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White apple blossoms had begun to appear in the old tree, and I read the pale light in the sky as the shy illumination of a world to which I had yet to be introduced.
NEWYORKER: Wakefield
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The evening sky was pale and empty and the light from the kitchen window made a yellow square reflection in the darkening yard.
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The sun is a pale smudge in the sky, a pinhole promise of light and warmth, as we lurch and bump across the frozen land in pursuit.
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As Maria weaves her stories together in the encroaching dusk, the sky turns to pale pink and then becomes streaked with a vermilion red.
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When the sun finally went down, the sky above the hills remained pale blue, the cloud bottoms all salmon and orange.
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"Nobody in the history of mankind has ever experienced the Earth as a pale, insignificant blue dot in the sky, " he said.
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As the sky lightens to delicate shades of pale blue and tangerine, we reach the peak.
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John the Evangelist standing against a pale parapet and a blue sky.
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The sky turns pink, peach and apricot, shading into pale Prussian grey.
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