Ashy
['æʃɪ] or ['æʃi]
Definition
(a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.
(a.) Ash-colored; whitish gray; deadly pale.
Editor: Sweeney
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Cineritious, cinereous, favillous, like ashes.[2]. Pale, pallid, whitish, gray, ash-colored.
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Examples
- If Mr Milvey knew an ashy face when he saw it, he saw it then. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Usually he was ashy and wretched, with all the life gnawed out of him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Her father's face was ashy white, and he held her in both his arms. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He has likewise attempted, sir, to murder the female servant,' said Mr. Bumble, with a face of ashy paleness. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- His face was ashy pale, beads of perspiration shone upon his brow, and his hands shook until the hunting-crop wagged like a branch in the wind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The fire went out, and all night long she slumbered thus before the ashy grate. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They drew back from the window, and the Doctor looked for explanation in his friend's ashy face. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Ashy pale, Raymond and Perdita sat apart, looking on with sad smiles. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- His cheeks, late vermilion glow, were changed to the ashy paleness of death; his Herculean strength to the feebleness of infancy. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- A mist came before his eyes; the cold sweat stood upon his ashy face; his limbs failed him; and he sank upon his knees. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It was ashy, haggard, and terrible. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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