What is "palely"

Usage examples of "palely".

And in another second, he was singing softly to himself, and dancing a grotesque step-dance in front of her, his limbs and body shaking loose, his face flickering palely, a constant thing, whilst his feet beat a rapid mocking tattoo, and his body seemed to hang all loose and quaking in between, like a shadow.

Mysterious forms whidded among the trees, as fluid as the shadows of birds in flight, flickering palely when sunlight dappled them.

Yet those marmoreal, immense arms and legs of hers, as they made leisurely, swimming movements through the air, looked palely unconvincing, as if arbitrarily tacked on to the bird attire.

The dying bonfire flickered palely in the gray light, and the snow that had melted around it was refreezing in icy puddles.

Amy had never been in such a small plane before, and despite everything she felt thrilled and excited, looking down on the sea so calm and clear and palely green, where small islands lay like scattered jewels, their shores scalloped with gold and silver sands.

The spotlight beam flickered palely over the low scrubby bushes and outlined the flat spiky plates of the prickly pears, but in the shifting uneven shadows that they threw, I reckoned I must be just another clump.

The peoples of ancient and classical times, and their unliterate ancestors, thought of it as a shadowy thing, a ghostly entity reflecting palely the matter to which it had been attached before death.

The Margate Hook was even closer now, the beacon winking palely in its ancient timber lighthouse.

In his black suit he stood in the dark glass where the lilies leaned so palely from their waisted cutglass vase.

I love 'em," sez I, a beginnin' to eppisode a little unbeknown to me, "I love 'em jest as I love the soft unbroken silence of the early spring mornin', the sun all palely tinted with rose and blue, and the earth alayin' calm and unwoke-up, fresh and fair.

Harry looked up at the stars still glimmering palely in the dark sky and listened to the sea washing backward and forward against the cliff: He was going to miss the sound.

They followed the scent and came upon them, glowing palely with parasitic molds on their leaves.

Brown had handed the wheel over to Louki, was morsing back to the harbour entrance, the cold rain lancing palely through the ifickering beams of the lamp.

Then it became darker again and for a time I could see nothing, and then the true dawn began to spread palely from the east and I could see land once more and gradually came to the conclusion that we were fairly close in to the north shore of Huyler and about to curve away to the south-west and then south towards the island's little harbour.

Benar’s halogen lamp - designed for single rooms, not hundred-thousand-year-old planetariums - thousands of tiny points of light and hundreds of brighter ones glittered palely above them.