Barney turned—saw her predicament—saw her ashen face—dashed back.
In anger, a face that is normally as beautiful as a lotus blossom will tun livid and pale, even ashen.
There was a band of sunlight on the bed between us, and, for just a moment, the ashen gray face looking at me from the other side of it was a dead ringer for Hassan's, not the Hassan I played marbles with until the mullah belted out the evening azan and Ali called us home, not the Hassan I chased down our hill as the sun dipped behind clay rooftops in the west, but the Hassan I saw alive for the last time, dragging his belongings behind Ali in a warm summer downpour, stuffing them in the trunk o
Her face turned ashen.
I found the Nguyens behind the counter, all the way against the wall, faces ashen, Mr.
Kamal's father was sitting cross-legged in the center of the circle, rocking back and forth, kissing his son's ashen face.
"Come," said Silver, struggling with his ashen lips to get the word out; "this won't do.
A Peacock, spreading its gorgeous tail, mocked a Crane that passed by, ridiculing the ashen hue of its plumage, and saying: "I am robed like a king, in gold and purple, and all the colors of the rainbow; while you have not a bit of color on your wings.
"So this half page has a golden ground; but the other half, which means sorrow, is ashen gray with black specks, as from fire and disease and pestilence.
