Sentence examples for pale slight from inspiring English sources
The pale, slight 14-year-old in a severe black suit stood before a crowd of more than 1,000 at the Family, Faith and Freedom rally on Saturday night while her mother gave a graphic account of how, "under the influence of pornographic videos," the girl's father had sexually abused her "on her very first birthday".
This was her first arrest, and the ADA asked for a full protective order for the husband and the child; the woman was pale, slight, and visibly anxious.
Eisenberg is so pale and slight beneath his oversized baseball hat that he looks more like a malnourished teenager than an astonishingly productive 29-year-old.
Last night, pale and slight behind the microphone at the community center, Fletcher repeated his plea, as eager to disavow heroism as the Patriot Prayer aficionados had been to embrace it.
Omar, a pale and slight youth, who clutched a blanket round his head and shoulders, said through the bars of his prison wing that all but seven people in his container had died from lack of air.
Hassan Hijazi, who was "a baby without a beard" when his older sister last saw him in 1986, looked pale and slight and overwhelmed by the many relatives who smothered him with affection.
Somewhere in the middle of this pack will be a slight, pale runner from Michigan whose race bib reads "Ritz".
A slight, pale young woman from Eversley, England, Marling sometimes seems to be writing with a preëmptively jaded eye.
The Hearst empire was offering $2,000 for an interview and, after a while, a slight, pale, smiling young woman came forward.
A slight, pale dancer with large eyes, Ms. Bessmertnova was known for an innate lyricism that gave her dancing a mysterious, almost unearthly beauty.
