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1  They stood and stared at each other, pale as culprits.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VI
2  "You're letting your supper get cold," she admonished him with a pale gleam of gaiety.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VII
3  It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VIII
4  She lingered a moment, caught in the same strong current; then she slipped from him and drew back a step or two, pale and troubled.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VII
5  She had pale opaque eyes which revealed nothing and reflected nothing, and her narrow lips were of the same sallow colour as her face.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IX
6  They drove slowly up the road between fields glistening under the pale sun, and then bent to the right down a lane edged with spruce and larch.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IX
7  She looked so small and pinched, in her poor dress, with the red scarf wound about her, and the cold light turning her paleness sallow, that Ethan stood before her without speaking.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VIII
8  The clumps of trees in the snow seemed to draw together in ruffled lumps, like birds with their heads under their wings; and the sky, as it paled, rose higher, leaving the earth more alone.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IX
9  She sat opposite the window, and the pale light reflected from the banks of snow made her face look more than usually drawn and bloodless, sharpened the three parallel creases between ear and cheek, and drew querulous lines from her thin nose to the corners of her mouth.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In III