124 examples of ashy in sentences

On a Saturday evening that was already pointed with stars at the six-o'clock closing of Hoffheimer's Fourteenth Street Emporium, Miss Slayback, whose blondness under fatigue could become ashy, emerged from the Bargain-Basement almost the first of its frantic exodus, taking the place of her weekly appointment in the entrance of the Popular Drug Store adjoining, her gaze, something even frantic in it, sifting the passing crowd.

She was not so pathetically young as she was pathetically blond, a treacherous, ready-to-fade kind of blondness that one day, now that she had found that very morning her first gray hair, would leave her ashy.

His black eyes were burning like two fires beneath his white brows, his lips were ashy, and his breath hot and hurried.

But his eyes were on the water and not on her face; his countenance became ashy, he gasped and hurried his handkerchief to his lips.

And then, in broken words, she told him how she had gone up to the fever patient at Ashy, on the fatal night on which Lancelot had last seen her.

Take all the water, every drop, and wash Ashy clean again!

I am dying of thirst!' He gave her water, and then she lay back and babbled about the Nun- pool sweeping 'all the houses of Ashy into one beautiful palace, among great flower-gardens, where the school children will sit and sing such merry hymns, and never struggle with great pails of water up the hill of Ashy any more.'

I am dying of thirst!' He gave her water, and then she lay back and babbled about the Nun- pool sweeping 'all the houses of Ashy into one beautiful palace, among great flower-gardens, where the school children will sit and sing such merry hymns, and never struggle with great pails of water up the hill of Ashy any more.'

"You, Falconer?" murmured Sir Stephen, with ashy lips.

" He paused and waited until Sir Stephen's ashy face had resumed a less deathly pallor.

He came to his mother's funeral; I saw him standing by her grave, looking so sad, so ashy palebut all for his mother's sake.

The Prince gazed at her a moment, then, with face ashy gray, he shook his head.

His already bloodless face grew ashy grey and livid blue alternately, and he would have screamed at Grim if the cough that began to rack his whole body would have let him.

The woods seemed to receive an ashy illumination from the passage of the snowflakes.

When, a second later, he reappeared, his face was ashy pale, and his steps tottered as he walked.

Even with their assurance the men were afraid to proceed, and several times old Peter turned with ashy face and faltering limbs, and said with terrible emphasis, "I can not!" About 6 P.M. we arrived at the snow upon, the ridge descending toward Zermatt, and all peril was over.

I shall not easily forget, how, as we slid like ghosts at midnight, through the middle of the desert, along the Suez Canal, I watched the ghastly pallor of the wan unhappy moon, as the horrible shadow crept slowly over her face, stealing away her beauty, and turning the lone and level sands that stretched away below to a weird and ashy blue, as though covering the earth with a sepulchral sympathetic pall.

I. May that triumphant Lord protect us, who as he stands in mysterious meditation, bathed in twilight, motionless, and ashy pale, with the crystal moon in his yellow hair, appears to the host of worshippers on his left, a woman, and to those on his right, a man.

" Suddenly she stepped back from the window, ashy pale, and gasping hysterically.

Male in spring and summer: jet black with ashy-white rump and shoulders; some light edgings on the back, wings, and tail-feathers, and a buff patch on the back of the neck, like a cream-puff baked just right.

" This little Hawk, only a foot long, was bluish-gray above and had a black tail barred with ashy; his white breast was banded with reddish-brown, and he had a keen, fierce eye.

Upper parts glossy greenish black in front, but ashy-gray behind and on the neck, wings, and tail; the forehead white, and two slender white plumes sticking out six or eight inches behind the head.

No shining mirror on the wings, which are mostly ashy with white lining underneath.

The colour faded from his cheeks, then he said with ashy composure: "I lie much less than the average man, Ailsa.

The countenance of the chief burgomaster became ashy pale, and drops of cold sweat stood on his brow.

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