“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yoursarepale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumblingà la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”
A rangy, gangly, Scandinavian youth of a sailor, droop-shouldered, six feet six and slender as a lath, with pallid eyes ofpalest blue and skin and hair attuned to the same colour scheme, joined Kwaque in his work.
2013, Leslie Morgan Steiner,The Baby Chase:
Three years later, the unwatered cactus was still about two feet tall, a dark green color. The watered cactus was apaler green, its trunk visibly swollen with moisture. It had grown to be over five feet tall.
(of human skin) Having apallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
His face turnedpale after hearing about his mother's death.
Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in hispale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.
But a man— / Note men !—they are but women after all, / As women are but Auroras !—there are men / Born tender, apt topale at a trodden worm, / Who paint for pastime, in their favourite dream, / Spruce auto-vestments flowered with crocus-flames / There are, too, who believe in hell and lie :[…]
1959 May, “Talking of Trains: "Rail-rovers" again”, inTrains Illustrated, page236:
(Although the conditions are rather different, the generosity of the offer certainlypales by comparison with the "Eurailpass" now available to tourists from North and South America at $125 (£44 13s.), which allowstwo months' unlimited first class travel throughout the railway systems ofthirteen countries—[...].)
2006 September 14, Katie Hafner, “Philanthropy Google’s Way: Not the Usual”, inThe New York Times[2]:
Its financingpales next to the tens of billions that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will have at its disposal, especially with the coming infusion of some $3 billion a year from Warren E. Buffett, the founder of Berkshire Hathaway.
12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV ClubIce Age: Continental Drift
The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age moviepales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
(transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
The boare (quoth ſhe) whereat a ſuddainpale, / Like lawne being ſpred vpon the bluſhing roſe, / Vſurpes her cheeke, ſhe trembles at his tale, / And on his neck her yoaking armes ſhe throwes.
1707,John Mortimer,The Whole Art of Husbandry, London: H. Mortlock & J. Robinson, 2nd edition, 1708, Chapter 1, pp. 11-12,[3]
[…] if you deſign it a Fence to keep in Deer, at every eight or ten Foot diſtance, ſet a Poſt with a Mortice in it to ſtand a little ſloping over the ſide of the Bank about two Foot high; and into the Mortices put a Rail[…] and no Deer will go over it, nor can they creep through it, as they do often, when aPale tumbles down.
1997, Gabrielle M. Lanier, Bernard L. Herman,Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic, page90:
Ceiling joists were sometimes grooved to receive riven staves orpales that secured mud-and-straw walling.
2015, Mark E. Reinberger, Elizabeth McLean,The Philadelphia Country House:
Pales (irregular, hand-riven, 1′′ × 4′′ boards) are inserted into grooves on both sides of the floor joists; on top of these, similarpales are laid at right angles; finally a plasterlike mixture is poured over and around the toppales,
How are we park’d and bounded in apale, / A little herd of England’s timorous deer, / Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!
1615,Ralph Hamor,A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia[4], London: William Welby, page13:
Fourthly, they ſhall not vpon any occaſion whatſoeuer breake downe any of ourpales, or come into any of our Townes or forts by any other waies, iſſues or ports then ordinary[…]
1645,John Milton,Il Penseroso, inThe Poetical Works of Milton, volume II, Edinburgh: Sands, Murray, and Cochran, published 1755, p. 151, lines 155–160:[5]
But let my due feet never fail, / To walk the ſtudious cloyſterspale, / And love the high embowed roof, / With antic pillars maſſy proof, / And ſtoried windows richly dight, / Caſting a dim religious light.
All things considered, we advise the male reader to keep his desires in check till he is at least twenty-five, and the female not to enter thepale of wedlock until she has attained the age of twenty.
He knows the fortifications – crumbling – and beyond the city walls the lands of thePale, its woods, villages and marshes, its sluices, dykes and canals.
2011, Thomas Penn,Winter King, Penguin, published2012, page73:
A low-lying, marshy enclave stretching eighteen miles along the coast and pushing some eight to ten miles inland, thePale of Calais nestled between French Picardy to the west and, to the east, the imperial-dominated territories of Flanders.
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[…] your iſle, which ſtands / As Neptunes Parke, ribb’d, andpal’d in / With Oakes vnſkaleable, and roaring Waters, / With Sands that will not bear your Enemies Boates, / But ſuck them vp to th’ Top-maſt.
2019 March 19, “Rankont ann Itali ant Anvwaye Espesyal Etazini ak Larisi sou Kriz Venezuela a”, inLavwadlamerik[6]:
Anvwaye espesyal Etazini pou Venezuela, Elliot Abrams, ak vis-minis afè etranjè Larisi, Sergei Ryabkov, ap fè reyinyon nan vil Wòm ann Itali pou yopale sou “sityasyon Venezuela kap agrave.”
American Special Envoy for Venezuela Elliot Abrams and Russian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov are meeting in the city of Rome, Italy totalk about "the worsening situation in Venezuela."
^Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “pale”, inHawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press,→ISBN, page311
^Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “pale.2”, inPOLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
^Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “pale”, inHawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press,→ISBN, page311
^Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “pale.1”, inPOLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
1) obsolete *) theaccusative corresponds with either thegenitive (sg) ornominative (pl) **) thecomitative is formed by adding the suffix-ka? or-kä? to thegenitive.
