PALE in Classic Quotes

1  Her zippicamiknicks were a pale shell pink.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XIII

2  Bernard was pale and trembling with impatience.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VI

3  His face was pale, his expression utterly dejected.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VI

4  The scar showed, pale and puckered, on his right temple.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VIII

5  Startled by the expression of distress on his pale face, she suddenly broke off.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XIV

6  He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XI

7  The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

8  Crimson at the horizon, the last of the sunset faded, through orange, upwards into yellow and a pale watery green.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter V

9  The Director went suddenly pale, stopped struggling and stood, his hands on her wrists, staring down at her, horrified.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter X

10  'O brave new world,' he began, then suddenly interrupted himself; the blood had left his cheeks; he was as pale as paper.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VIII

11  From his place on the opposite side of the changing-room aisle, Bernard Marx overheard what they were saying and turned pale.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter III

12  Looking down through the window in the floor, the Savage could see Lenina's upturned face, pale in the bluish light of the lamps.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XI

13  The dress of the young man who now stepped out on to the terrace was Indian; but his plaited hair was straw-coloured, his eyes a pale blue, and his skin a white skin, bronzed.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII

14  She was appalled by the rushing emptiness of the night, by the black foam-flecked water heaving beneath them, by the pale face of the moon, so haggard and distracted among the hastening clouds.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VI

15  He pencilled his initials--two small pale letters abject at the feet of Mustapha Mond----and was about to return the paper without a word of comment or genial Ford-speed, when his eye was caught by something written in the body of the permit.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VI

16  Thousands of petals, ripe-blown and silkily smooth, like the cheeks of innumerable little cherubs, but of cherubs, in that bright light, not exclusively pink and Aryan, but also luminously Chinese, also Mexican, also apoplectic with too much blowing of celestial trumpets, also pale as death, pale with the posthumous whiteness of marble.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter II

17  He laughed and laughed till the tears streamed down his face--quenchlessly laughed while, pale with a sense of outrage, the Savage looked at him over the top of his book and then, as the laughter still continued, closed it indignantly, got up and, with the gesture of one who removes his pearl from before swine, locked it away in its drawer.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XII