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Meanings of ghastly white in English

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Usage of ghastly white in English
1
He was ghastly white; his head had fallen back against the bed.
The Flight of the Shadow
2
Norah's face was ghastly white; she was trembling from head to foot.
Sisters Three
3
Frank turned ghastly white, and sat down in a chair opposite me.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 / A Maga...
4
As she looked up she saw that Elsie was almost ghastly white.
Elsie Marley, Honey
5
The woods were all unillumined, ghastly white, with a hovering gray shadow.
The Frontiersmen
6
Her face was ghastly white, and her heart was beating to suffocation.
A Countess from Canada: A Story of Life in the Backwoods
7
After a while, Gibson looked up at me, his face ghastly white.
The devil and sherlock holmes: tales of murder, madness, and obs...
8
His face flushes red, then ghastly white as the blood drains out.
The Demolished Man
9
The big woman's face was ghastly white, snowflakes snagged in her hair.
Mine
10
It was ghastly white; the eyes were half open, only the white showing.
The Dead Are Silent / 1907
11
The other staggered back and his face turned a ghastly white.
The Boy Allies in the Balkan Campaign; Or, the Struggle to Save ...
12
Poor Jasmine staggered against the wall, and her pretty face became ghastly white.
The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls
13
She was ghastly white, and her eyes were dull and glazed.
Freckles
14
She stopped, turned ghastly white, and then as suddenly very red.
A True Friend: A Novel
15
He thought he never had seen anything so ghastly white as her face.
The Witness
16
His face was ghastly white now, his body cold and collapsed.
The ninth vibration and other stories
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Ghastly white through the time
Ghastly white across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common