We must pall the barge all its length in blackest samite.
At the end of the pall bearers are carrying the casket out when they accidentally bump into a wall, shaking the casket.
In life, the gentle author (who suffered from respiratory problems all his life) attributed his own profound depressions to "nothing more definite than a certain hue of brown," that same "great chocolate-colored pall" that hangs over the villainous Hyde.
How cold must be my bosom now, When e'en thy smiles begin to pall!
Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth, Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth Of noble natures, of the gloomy days, Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkn'd ways Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits.
Because these take place before a film receives its black-tie premiere, word quickly gets around and can cast a pall over the big event.
I'm generally OK with the reflection I see in the mirror, but the camera casts a pall on my visage.
When I look up at a gray misty pall of a low-hanging sky, some dust particles feel chilly on my face.
The dead Christian priest desired that the sleeping woman should be lifted on the horse, but the horse sank beneath the load, as if he had been a funeral pall fluttering in the wind.
The slow-moving pall of heat is smashing temperature records everywhere and has been described by officials in the BOM as a " highly significant" event, even in the face of the announcement that 2013 was Australia's cruelest in more than a century of heat records.
