Ashen

(adj.) anemic looking from illness or emotion; 'a face turned ashen'; 'the invalid's blanched cheeks'; 'tried to speak with bloodless lips'; 'a face livid with shock'; 'lips...livid with the hue of death'- Mary W. Shelley; 'lips white with terror'; 'a face white with rage' .

(adj.) made of wood of the ash tree .

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• No answer; no sign of recognition; but a faint pink colour returned to her lips, although the rest of her face was ashen pale. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• I looked spectral; my eyes larger and more hollow, my hair darker than was natural, by contrast with my thin and ashen face. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• His father lay grey and ashen on the bed, a nurse moved silently in her white dress, neat and elegant, even beautiful. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She stared at him with an ashen face and gulped twice before she could speak. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.

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