"Paly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... she was of the first aristocracy in our town; and pap he always said it, too, though he warn't no more quality than a mudcat himself. Col. Grangerford was very tall and very slim, and had a darkish-paly complexion, not a sign of red in it anywheres; he was clean shaved every morning all over his thin face, and he had the thinnest kind of lips, and the thinnest kind of nostrils, and a high nose, and heavy eyebrows, and the ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... entertained them on the specified refreshment, biscuits and coffee, and enthroned Mrs Tallboys in the large arm-chair, where she looked most beautiful and gorgeous, in a robe of some astonishing sheeny sky-blue, edged with paly gold, while on her head was a coronal of sapphire and gold, with a marvellous little plume. The cost must have been enormous, and her delicate and spirituelle beauty was shown to the greatest advantage; but as the audience was far ...
— The Three Brides • Charlotte M. Yonge
... was full of the fairest colors Pink and purple and paly green, With great soft masses of gray and amber, And great ...
— The Antediluvian World • Ignatius Donnelly
... thy folding-star arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant Hours, and Elves Who slept in buds ...
— The Poetical Works of William Collins - With a Memoir • William Collins
... Was she thinking of Julian, the young artist at the Falls, and wondering if the brief romance of their love were indeed a dream? All at once a change, quick as the electric flash, passed over her face. A bright, rosy cloud rolled over its pallor, like morning breaking in Alpine snows. Even the paly gold of her hair seemed to catch the glory that so suddenly and absolutely illumined her. She was looking into the saloon, and I followed the direction of her kindling eyes. Julian was at that moment crossing the threshold. She had seen him ascending the steps, and her heart sprang forth to ...
— Ernest Linwood - or, The Inner Life of the Author • Caroline Lee Hentz |
