Appear inferior by comparison

Usage examples of pale.

But your far song, my faint one, what are they, And what their dance and faery thoughts and ours, Or night abloom with splendid stars and pale?

She often returned home pale and silent, having reached the uttermost depths of human abomination, and never daring to say all.

His complexion was marred by angry purple and red acne and his eyes were very pale blue.

Seward rose from his sick-bed, pale, emaciated, and sorrowful, to persuade his associates in the Government, of the wisdom and necessity of adopting them.

It was there by virtue of its selfness, adrift in the same waxen pale as himself.

The clouds paled, turned rosy for a moment with the afterglow, then deepened into purple gloom.

Short and pale in lace-trimmed gray slashed with blue, she was all cool ageless elegance and confident smile.

There are groups of women of every age, decked out in their smartest clothes, crowds of mousmes with aigrettes of flowers in their hair, or little silver topknots like Oyouki--pretty little physiognomies, little, narrow eyes peeping between their slits like those of new-born kittens, fat, pale, little cheeks, round, puffed-out, half-opened lips.

The carriage turned onto a cross street and they passed an open gate, Alec glimpsed an expanse of open ground and beyond it a sprawling edifice of pale grey stone decorated along the battlements with patterns of black and white.

A pale face appeared at the bars and Alec experienced a familiar sense of incongruity.

The road ran along the crest of it and Alec could see water on either side: the Osiat steely dark, the shallow Inner Sea a paler blue.

She wore four rings, green peridot and red almandine on her left hand, pale blue topaz and red-green alexandrite on her right.

Tedford carried in his almanac, back at his campsite, his membership card in the Melbourne Scientific Society and his only photograph of his brother: a murky rendering of a tall, sweet-looking boy with pale hair.

She watched the two Amar stirring the gravel a minute more, then wandered about a large pile of rock to stand beside the hot spring, watching purple bubbles pop and pale purple mists glide across the seething water.

The pale, exquisite body seemed quite empty like an anencephalic clone grown in a transplant tank.