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  • His face was ashen, a yellowish grey color that spoke of death.
  • The ruling oligarchic clique in Moscow headed by Putin, actually, has been quite hostile to Byelorussia and Lukashenko. Belarus: That's enough democracy | Editorial
  • He could see his reflection, turned gaunt and ashen, in the fragment of mirror propped against the lavatory window.
  • Beside her, Grace sat ashen-faced, complaining of feeling sick. GRACE
  • I saw a group walking towards me through the ashen darkness.
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  • In the words of Mets general manager Frank Cashen , Mr. Carter added a "bopper," a power hitter. Slugging Catcher Fueled Mets' Glory of 1980s
  • Mr. Lukashenko allowed opposition candidates to take part in larger numbers than in the previous parliamentary vote, in 2004, and, unlike last time, left them unharassed. Belarus Vote Leaves Opposition in Cold
  • His consiglieri, an ashen-faced Vice President Omar Suleiman, read a 30-second statement to announce Mr. Mubarak's departure and the transfer of power to the Supreme Council of the Armed Services. Egypt After Mubarak
  • The small old men exited from the dramatic scene ashen-faced.
  • His face was ashen, and he didn't say a word for several minutes.
  • Giovanni sighed, smiling happily, which added color to his ashen cheeks.
  • His face was ashen by this point, and he could barely hear his own voice.
  • He appeared on television screens worldwide, bare chested and ashen-faced, wearing a large white bandage around his head.
  • It also coincided, perhaps fortuitously for Mr Lukashenka, with an uncomfortable few weeks for Russia's Vladimir Putin.
  • The Russian communist and nationalist opposition pinned upon Lukashenko their hopes of reintegrating the scattered parts of the former Soviet Union under one strong leader.
  • Lines bit deep into either side of his mouth, his hair damped against his skull, face ashen. Earl of Durkness
  • Their cameras witnessed death, dense panic and ashen fear.
  • The helpers were moving about the plane, chatting and reassuring everyone, and suddenly ashen-faced people who had been gripping their arm-rests were smiling, talking and relaxing.
  • In this way, conventional practices are rationalized and so made more adaptable, as both Brumfit and Krashen point out.
  • I dozed fitfully until morning, when I awake feeling knackered; my spouse looked worried and ashen in sympathy.
  • Home-side of the linhay, and under the ashen hedge-row, where father taught me to catch blackbirds, all at once my heart went down, and all my breast was hollow. Lorna Doone
  • A gorgeous, flowing, ashen tail streamed from his hindquarters.
  • Ye'll see them i 'the mornin' gaen awa 'berfit to the skule, an' a seerip piece i 'their hand, wi' fient o 'hand or face o' them washen, an 'their claes as greasy as a cadger's pooch. My Man Sandy
  • The ashen face in the bed twisted in pain, pale lips parting and pressing together.
  • The sentry had only to peep over the low wall of the terrace to see these two ashen faces. SNOWLINE
  • His pale complexion and ashen hair gave him an almost ghost-like appearance.
  • His face was ashen and wet with sweat.
  • Luke pressed on, his blusterous form gone and his face ashen.
  • Sometimes it was a ride to the doctor, other times it was sharing her famous recipes, whether gefilte fish, hamantashen, Jordan's blueberry muffins, or her husband's favorite sauerbraten. We Remember - Emily Shain Mehlman, 1941 - 2006
  • It was not until June 18th that Victor Gerashenko, the head of the Central Bank of Russia, announced his plans to make chervonets into a real currency.
  • He was ashen-faced but impassive as the verdicts were brought in.
  • His face was ashen white and the grip he had on my sleeve tightened.
  • Byelorussian people remember vividly the dark days of 1991-94 under the catastrophic misrule of Shushkevich and the contrast it with the goodness of Lukashenko's government. Belarus: That's enough democracy | Editorial
  • And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen hands, they found fault. Mark 7.
  • As Serena fed the old letters into the shredder --- we keep them six months --- I glanced at Linda, who was ashen-faced. RESCUING ROSE
  • Belarus devalued its ruble by 36% in May after a pre-election spending spree by Mr. Lukashenko caused a gaping deficit in the country's current account and drained its reserves. Belarus to Allow Ruble to Float
  • We want to buy Vacuum Cleaner, Capet Washen, Food Processor, Barbeque Grill, Kettle, Hair Dryer, Juicers , Mixers.
  • Although Lukashenko is tipped to win by the pollsters, already 25 other candidates have said they will stand for the presidency.
  • The photos are thought to be the same ones which left members of Congress ashen-faced when showed in a closed-door session last summer.
  • This Pastor was an older, gaunter man; his face was ashen and he seemed very weary, having been worn down by the endless petitions of the last few days.
  • ‘I had to go somewhere quickly,’ he told the ashen-faced judge.
  • But because this particular attack was on Belarus, led by "Europe’s last dictator", Aleksander Lukashenko and a country through which considerably less gas flows to the West than through Ukraine, the EU and its members remained shtumm. Archive 2007-01-01
  • His consiglieri, an ashen-faced Vice President Omar Suleiman, read a 30-second statement to announce Mr. Mubarak's departure and the transfer of power to the Supreme Council of the Armed Services. Egypt After Mubarak
  • The first-person narrative moves gracefully between the literary present, in which Kear hopes to forestall Ashenden from turning out anything about Driffield and “blowing the gaff,” and the extraliterary past, when Ashenden knew the Driffields as neighbors and friends and spent many happy hours in their company. Archive 2009-04-01
  • The ashen face in the bed twisted in pain, pale lips parting and pressing together.
  • The governor, ashen-faced, crouched in the car; but the bishop said softly as the ecstasy pulsed in his heart: DARKWATER
  • His eyes were closed, his face was an ashen colour, and there were beads of sweat on his forehead.
  • Swallowing hard, the ashen-faced girl continued, her ‘composed’ voice merely an emotionless monotone.
  • Daphne freezes, seeing the sudden fear on her father's ashen face.
  • He didn't lose any audience members, though there were a few faces in the audience that could be described as ambling toward ashen. Fresnobeehive.com
  • Ashen threw his hands in the air and then retired to a stone wall, leaning against it.
  • No body-pile or pecten ever grows upon the excoriated part which preserves through life a livid ashen hue. Arabian nights. English
  • Nearby, children fly kites in a field blanketed with ashen dust - residue from the floods. Government Mistrust Spreads In Post-Flood Pakistan
  • It was a sunless afternoon, and the picture was all in monastic shades of black and white and ashen grey: the sick under their earth-coloured blankets, their livid faces against the pillows, the black dresses of the women (they seemed all to be in mourning) and the silver haze floating out from the little acolyte's censer. Fighting France
  • Utter terror was conveyed across his ashen face.
  • A couple of ashen-faced colleagues are recovering after making that mistake on a ride from the airport.
  • A decade after the cataclysm, the planet has become 'ashen scabland' with little sunlight, vegetation or wildlife. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is nothing so crouse, as a new washen louse. Collection of Scotch Proverbs
  • With his ashen hair, sad eyes and slackening doughball jowls he has the look of Nixon during his exit throes. Speaking of leaders
  • Inside the cage, an ashen-looking Mubarak craned his head up to see the proceedings, a sheet drawn up to his chest. Egypt's Mubarak in hospital bed at trial
  • Black strands were falling from her firm plait of hair, and her face looked ashen in the firelight.
  • She looked at him then, and saw he was ashen-faced.
  • He looked down slowly, ashen-faced and shaking.
  • With the blood welling from a shothole in his broad, burly chest and the seal of death already settling on his ashen brow, he was scowling up into the half-compassionate, half-contemptuous faces about him. Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila
  • a face turned ashen
  • She was thin and her face was ashen.
  • They turned to find Annabel standing there, ashen-faced, acute shame showing in every line of those beautiful features. How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
  • The rest of us just continue to be stressed out, over worked, ashen and grey faced and up to our necks in debt.
  • A few shots of the liquor called slivovitz will make you either flushed or ashen-faced. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
  • Days later, pictures of the residents' ashen faces were plastered over the papers and broadcast on the news every night, invariably showing tightly strapped face-masks.
  • He recognized Julia immediately and was about to call out her name when he noticed the ashen look on her face. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
  • Ashenfelder said large balls of hail, which she described as smaller than a golf ball but larger than a marble, pelted the area during the incident. CourierPostOnline.com - News
  • Her face was ashen as she fumbling with her helmet, and I realized that her life support and backup had failed.
  • I dozed fitfully until morning, when I awake feeling knackered; my spouse looked worried and ashen in sympathy.
  • ‘grub-picker’ (or tree-creeper), about as small as the penduline titmouse, with speckled plumage of an ashen colour, and with a poor note; it is a variety of the woodpecker. The History of Animals
  • Ashen-faced, they leaned on each other for strength while the district attorney told them about the possible plea bargain.
  • Then came the latest sustained ashen belch from the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokul, re-routing, delaying or cancelling hundreds of trans-Atlantic flights over the weekend and into the week of the festival's opening. Chicagotribune.com -
  • Malashenko says one needs to think for a second that a judge - a civil authority - can provide instruction about proper or improper religious ritual.
  • Julie walked in, ashen-faced with shock.
  • He was gazing at me like a dervish on hashish, clutching my wrist, his eyes burning with the flame of pure barminess, as I sat open-mouthed, the chicken leg poised at my ashen lips. THE NUMBERS
  • It's a whole microvascular thing involving the "superior gluteal artery" being transplanted and grafted onto an artery in the chest, but I will refrain from saying more than that on the technical side because the last time I tried to explain it to a friend, his face turned ashen, and he asked me to stop. Lauren Cahn: Reconstructing Myself: Implants After Breast Cancer
  • Their faces were ashen, sorrow staring back from hollow eyes.
  • Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the president's twin, returned ashen-faced on the plane with his brother's corpse, after identifying the remains in Smolensk. Warsaw Mourns Its Fallen Leaders
  • Peasants huddle terrified in hovels while ashen-faced statesmen race hither and thither before the storm clouds of history.
  • Usually, the lower back is weak and sore, there is ringing in the ears and loss of hearing acuity, the face is ashen or dark, especially under the eyes.
  • The small old men exited from the dramatic scene ashen-faced.
  • Serena II this clonic earth see-saw she is blurred in sleep she is fat half dead the rest is free-wheeling part the black shag the pelt is ashen woad snarl and howl in the wood wake all the birds hound the harlots out of the ferns this damfool twilight threshing in the brake bleating to be bloodied this crapulent hush tears its heart out and so on... Archive 2006-04-01
  • Dry mouth can often Ophiopogon japonicus, such as Chinese medicine Shashen tea drinking.
  • I might add that the OED does have cinereous, defined as 'Of an ashy hue, ash-coloured, ashen-gray'—but what color are these ashes? Languagehat.com: ASHES TO ASHES.
  • An elegant black satin sleeveless dress with red lace trimmings hugged the woman's skeletal figure, not complementing her ashen complexion at all.
  • The water beaded and rolled off of ashen pinions.
  • A thin plume of ashen smoke drifts into the crystalline sky.
  • Brashen had once worked on a ship where the mate was a bit too free with his marlinespike. Ship Of Magic
  • One ashen-faced senior figure said: ‘We are standing around here bemused and astonished.’
  • One ashen-faced businessman said to me: ‘Things will be different from now on, won't they?’
  • We took a short provisioning trip this morning and, judging by the number of tired, ashen faces to be seen atop slightly tottery bodies, I'm not alone in my struggle to get back to normal.
  • His door opened with a force he remembered from the former departmental oversight, and an ashen-faced agent breathing heavily practically fell into the office. NaNoWriMo: Attack Of The Zombie Robots « The Graveyard
  • He had emerged from his fairly elaborate morning ablutions looking ashen-faced.
  • Benedict looked up as he approached; his face was ashen and his lips set tight. GRACE
  • In the filmy light of a city morning he looked ashen and old.
  • He rushed through the formalities of the event and arrived shortly afterwards on the South Bank ashen-faced, muttering: "I came as soon as I could. Scotland Yard's finest called to account over 'culture of collusion' with the press
  • Though our foreheads are marked with a black, ashen cross, Matthew warns us to practice our piety in secret.
  • No man dared to present himself at mass without some weapon, a pike, a long knife called a skean, or, at the very least, a strong ashen stake, pointed and hardened in the fire. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
  • His face was ashen as she started to advance upon him.
  • We want to buy Vacuum Cleaner, Capet Washen, Food Processor, Barbeque Grill, Kettle, Hair Dryer, Juicers , Mixers.
  • Allhallows-tide, six weeks ere the great frost set in, the heavens had worn one heavy mask of ashen gray when clouded, or else one amethystine tinge with a hazy rim, when cloudless. Lorna Doone
  • Vacuum Cleaner, Capet Washen, Food Processor, Barbeque Grill, Kettle, Hair Dryer, Juicers, Mixers.
  • And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. Jesus of Nazareth, A Biography, by John Mark
  • He was ashen-faced but impassive as the verdicts were brought in.
  • The door opened and Van Dehn entered, ashen-faced, having spent the past twenty minutes on the telephone to the Rijksmuseum. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
  • He had a shock of dark blue hair that, yesterday, had blond roots, and his smooth skin was an ashen color, suggesting that he'd been sick for a long time.
  • At this, Sarah gasped and sank back ashen-faced in her chair.
  • She turns to look at him; his face is ashen, and there is a cigarette in his hand.
  • Images came in every day of some ashen soul being carried out of the crush, as if they were just chisel-hewn from the concrete — dusty and a bit broken of course, but still alive with a thumbs up for the camera as they go by. Like Hell Needs A Heat Wave...
  • It's a relief when it's merely 'snowpacked', 'sullen', 'ashen', 'pallid' or 'umbrous'. Times, Sunday Times
  • He had emerged from his fairly elaborate morning ablutions looking ashen-faced.
  • Swallowing hard, the ashen-faced girl continued, her ‘composed’ voice merely an emotionless monotone.
  • Despite clustering in heterochromatin, Dasheng elements are not nested, suggesting their potential value as molecular markers for these marker-poor regions.
  • Coughlin stared ashen-faced at Dennison as the realization of what he was planning slammed into him like a punishing blow to the body. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
  • And that's no different from the uncertainty over winning the multi-million contract with Tashenu's.
  • The phene is larger than the common eagle and is ashen in colour. The History of Animals
  • We were sick with power, me, my sister, the governor and all of the people in the Juarez cartel, an ashen-faced Gonzalez said in a rote manner in a video uploaded Wednesday. Mexican drug cartel forces lawyer's video confessions
  • Instead, he was ashen-faced over what he described as ‘the biggest miscarriage of justice imaginable’.
  • Like the ashen-grey hue that bedims the countenance of the dying, Through the Magic Door
  • Mr. Lukashenko declared that Belarus needed "no more hare-brained democracy. Belarus Accuses Germany, Poland of Overthrow Bid
  • I drove home ashen-faced, where I took a bunch of codeine and paced around the house waiting for it to work.
  • She listened to the tragic news ashen - faced.
  • Melanie Little on The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg: Rather than strangle the meaning from her anecdotes and examples the way my grandmother could wring every last droplet from a washcloth, An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
  • His mother was wasted and almost ashen in the morning with the morphia.
  • Ashenden somewhat ruefully took out a number of notes and handed them to the Mexican.
  • I slopped the stuff on and miraculously the ashen timbers of our bench and table suite turned slowly back to a healthy brown.
  • He bade the Scrivener write the tale of the Men of the Sickle at an hundred and a half, and his folk fared past the War-leader joyously, being one half of them bowmen; and fell shooters they were; the other half were girt with swords, and bore withal long ashen staves armed with great blades curved inwards, which weapon they called heft-sax. The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
  • They had the tall curve of elms, the tenuity of poplars, the ashen colour of olives under a rainy sky; and they stretched ahead of me for half a mile or more without a break in their arch.
  • As soon as I reached my work place I saw ashen faces and tears in the eyes of my colleagues.
  • He could see his reflection, turned gaunt and ashen, in the fragment of mirror propped against the lavatory window.
  • His ashen face was animated by genuine interest.
  • His face was ashen and wet with sweat.
  • The distinctive feature of melkosopochnik vegetation is the abundance of shrubs (Caragana balchashensis, C. frutex, Spiraea hypericifolia). Kazakh semi-desert
  • Like the ashen-grey hue that bedims the countenance of the dying, a filmy greasy skin appeared to overspread the recent loveliness of the ocean surface. Through the Magic Door
  • Katie's face was pale and ashen and her eyes were glassy.
  • Deimos was still ashen-faced, though coping well.
  • Gas row 'opportune' for Russia to put pressure on Belarus - Lukashenko RIA Novosti
  • Latovsky drew his ashen lips back from his teeth, raised the rolled-up copy of the Register in his hand, and pitched it at Riley. DOLL'S EYES
  • Hanging from a death-dealing height, dressed in blue, the face an ashen white, the figure seemed to augur worst times ahead.
  • That the building of the Czech residential area in Shanghai, the Czech ambassador to China, Prussia Tanka Tuomashen about and I hope to meet all the embassies in the design drawings.
  • People on the morning train looked moodier and more ashen-faced than usual.
  • His eyes were closed, his face was an ashen colour, and there were beads of sweat on his forehead.
  • With all around him looking pale and ashen-faced, Guy Hedderwick put his best foot forward, racing across the smouldering coals.
  • Jasmine had a blanket around her shoulders, her face ashen white.
  • Just then, the door flew open and Mara, ashen-faced and tottering came out, closely followed by a radiant Rakael.
  • Erik nodded, his eyes still locked on his father's ashen face.
  • His face was ashen white, and he looked like a ghost, his skin almost translucent.
  • His face was ashen, even the high color of his recent exertions on the squash court drained from it. AMAGANSETT
  • I dozed fitfully until morning, when I awake feeling knackered; my spouse looked worried and ashen in sympathy.
  • He died while lashed on the foreyard, and was brought down thence by Ashenden, who bravely mounted the rigging and carried down the dead lad with the sea-foam on his lips. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
  • Mai mom fwekz ot wen she sez mai on mashen wit da nam puter caz ob pointy ends twy to puss leter on da letar bordz. Haf id yore wai! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • When he saw her ashen face, concerned flooded him.
  • The woman's fair face was ashen; beads of sweat formed at her temples.

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