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"Well, then," said Craigengelt, "will you believe Colonel Douglas Ashton, who heard the Marquis of A say in a public circle, but not aware that he was within ear-shot, that his kinsman had made a better arrangement for himself than to give his father's land for the pale-cheeked daughter of a broken-down fanatic, and that Bucklaw was welcome to the wearing of Ravenswood's shaughled shoes."
Quoth Beltane, pale-cheeked and frowning a little: "So would I have it, Benedict they shall be the more for us to smite!" "I've heard he musters full three thousand, Beltane." "What then, good Benedict? Yon poor, dead thing we passed but now was worth a score of men to us and there will be others Sir Pertolepe loveth to see men hang!
Peter's person was in keeping with his goodly apparel. Gray-headed, hollow-eyed, pale-cheeked, and lean-bodied, he was the perfect picture of a man who had fed on windy schemes and empty hopes, till he could neither live on such unwholesome trash, nor stomach more substantial food.
Every vase and jug, and cup, and pot and pan and pipkin that we can command, is crammed with heavy-headed daffodils, with pale-cheeked primroses, with wine-colored gilly-flowers, every thing that spring has thrust most plentifully into our eager hands. The boys have been out fishing. Algy and Bobby have been humorously trying to drown the Brat.
But for thee, my poor Leonillo, I have no comforter or friend!" and he flung his arms round the dog's neck. "And now with sae sharp of steele They 'gan to lay on load." Sir Cauline. Heavy-hearted and pale-cheeked with his rigidly observed fast, Richard armed himself in early morning, and set forth to the chapel tent, where the previous solemnities had to be observed.
So, an thou stay, so, perforce, must I: and if thou stay then art thou deeply forsworn." "How mean you, good sir?" "I mean Belsaye I mean all those brave souls that do wait and watch, pale-cheeked, 'gainst Ivo's threatened vengeance " "Ha Belsaye!" quoth Beltane, lifting his head. "Thou must save Belsaye from flame and ravishment, my lord!"
His blue eyes blazed and the lips beneath the short-cropped moustache quivered. "It's all my fault, Doggie. I'm a beast and a cad and anything you like to call me. But for things you said last night well no, hang it all, there's no excuse. Everything's on me. Peggy's as true as gold." Peggy, red-eyed, pale-cheeked, stood a little way back, silent, on the defensive.
These are a wretched quaking, short-breathed set. But what is this cloud of pale-cheeked, slender girls, who disturb the ear with the multiplicity of their short, dry coughs? They are seamstresses, who have plied the daily and nightly needle in the service of master tailors and close-fisted contractors, until now it is almost time for each to hem the borders of her own shroud.
This is my eldest daughter, Isabel; and this soft-eyed, pale-cheeked damozel too loyal for a leaf of the red rose is the Lady Anne." The two girls had started from their father's arms at the first address to Marmaduke, and their countenances had relapsed from their caressing and childlike expression into all the stately demureness with which they had been brought up to regard a stranger.
At another station he saw a group of young soldiers, intelligent, athletic and sturdy, climbing on the car to start to the front, but on the platform was a group of pale-cheeked and weeping women, wives, mothers and sweethearts. "Oh, it was terrible! It is all black, black, black!" said Winthrop. But after the battle of Gettysburg, the high-water mark of the war, men's spirits began to rise.
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