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Nejmi in palest, filmy yellow, her head against the door frame.

Spice and the Devil's Cave 1930

The colors themselves dazzle: blues from the palest robin's egg to the deepest cyanide and cobalt; a deep blue-black background for the white Pelicanus Americanus; crimson red and paler pinks for the flamingo; so many shades of beige, brown and gray for the owls that you can't tell where one stops and another begins; an iridescent rainbow for ducks; a psychedelic palette for finches.

The Joys of Slow Looking Willard Spiegelman 2011

It's not a particularly bright colour, nothing like the sunshine intensity of gorse, or a male brimstone's wings, not even as showy as the palest daffodil.

Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk 2011

The German triumvirate have plug-in and electric-car programs, too, but some seem like the palest greenwashing imaginable.

In Geneva, Guessing at a Gas-Guzzling Future Dan Neil 2011

Yet despite Osama bin Laden's killing in May, the dwindling of his group to the palest shadow of its former self and the protest of millions across the Arab world for whom the group never represented, Al-Qaeda holds a grasp on the Western imagination.

Fawaz Gerges: The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda: Debunking the Terrorism Narrative Fawaz Gerges 2012

Look at that unctuous underglaze in the palest, almost imperceptible blue, not too glassy, not too dull, and fired with absolute evenness and consistency.

Sir Percival David at the British Museum 2009

To keep it sweet, make sure it doesn't get any darker than palest gold.

Nigel Slater's classic spaghettini aglio e olio 2011

We conjured up rooms in the palest blonde and ice—what became interesting was how shape, texture and paint finish were the strong cards.

The Case Against Color Sara Ruffin Costello 2011

Look at that unctuous underglaze in the palest, almost imperceptible blue, not too glassy, not too dull, and fired with absolute evenness and consistency.

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

Yet despite Osama bin Laden's killing in May, the dwindling of his group to the palest shadow of its former self and the protest of millions across the Arab world for whom the group never represented, Al-Qaeda holds a grasp on the Western imagination.

Fawaz Gerges: The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda: Debunking the Terrorism Narrative Fawaz Gerges 2012