Hardly hale-looking

Usage examples of ashen.

He had always liked and respected Roland, and was appalled by this ashen and haggard man sitting his horse before him.

Without warning, contrary to his custom of consulting the other officers, Bering appeared on deck pallid and ashen from disease, and peremptorily ordered anchors up.

The man, reed thin and ashen, bobbled the pack from his shoulder, losing his black cap in the process.

After them from Cecropia came warlike Butes, son of brave Teleon, and Phalerus of the ashen spear.

Peaks of ashen hue and pale dry red and pale sulphur pushed up, straight, forked, twisted, naked, striking their minds with an indeterminate ghostliness of Indian, so strange they were in shape and colouring.

Ashen, for in part, it caused the memory of the under-thing, Gulper, on its hunt, to flash into her mind.

But the girl, her body shrunken, her skin ashen, looked at him and began to revile him, boasting of her white skin and her sleek body, calling the man of God a scabious scarecrow, so that her poor parents sank down on their knees and hid their heads in shame.

Daurannon murmured, coming quietly up to join them with an ashen Seldes Katne and a couple of Council sasenna in tow.

Winter paused, his face ashen, then he opened the door, stepped out slowly, still holding the knife as Marler backed away, putting distance between them.

Then drawing a petronel from his breast, he pointed the long, shiny barrel at the priest, whose face went ashen at the sight.

He crested the hill and looked down on the wet rooftops of the town, the ashen carparks, the hideous plasticky shopping centre and the inhospitable moorland that butted against the new estate beyond.

At this crowning insult the sompnour, with a face ashen with rage, raised up a quivering hand and began pouring Latin imprecations upon the angry alderman.

The dead wife of Bauer waited in agony in an uncontinented place for Bauer to fall past her into hell: ashen anguish, ghostly torture.

Ashen features, hair lank with sweat, lips discolored by the medicine.

Below them, in the corridor, one of the Elaysians was weeping openly, and even Hako Fezdan looked ashen as he considered the gravity of what they were about to do.