ashen-hued

The vitrines — shabby-chic reliquaries — house ashen-hued artworks that resemble postapocalyptic fragments, relics, sunken wreckage and ruins.

Netherworld Chic, Surreal Impressions Lance Esplund 2010

There were brown sheep, and a deep ashen-hued wool that came from them, woven in the people's garments.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

There were brown sheep, and a deep ashen-hued wool that came from them, woven in the people's garments.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

The night side had an ashen-hued glow of its own, partly from aurora, partly from luminosity rebounding off a score of moons.

A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969

She was not, as that lady was, ashen-hued, but her eyes, though less prominently, bulged.

The Foolish Lovers St. John G. Ervine 1927

It was a trembling and ashen-hued Usanga who tumbled out of the fuselage, for his nerves were still on edge as a result of the harrowing experience of the loop, yet with terra firma once more under foot, he quickly regained his composure.

Tarzan the Untamed 1920

She stood there ashen-hued, clinging to the saddle-horn and swaying slightly.

Brand Blotters William MacLeod Raine 1912

On the other side there were lilacs, stately and leafy and bare of bloom, save for a few ashen-hued bunches lingering late amid the heavy foliage.

The Voice of the People Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

Her hair was of the pale, delicate, neutral tint which the French call _blond-cendré_, a little too ashen-hued for most complexions.

Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870

The moment's pause wrapped her in a mental hurricane, out of which she came with a heart stopped, her olive cheeks ashen-hued.

Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868