His eyebrows sketched a pale smear above sockets sunken into his skull.

Far below, in the valley, in the gathering night, there trembled a few pale smears which were the lights of tallow candles.

There was a form approaching him, a pale smear in his blurry sight.

Down beside the lawn, the white bulk of Hector Cameron's mausoleum was a pale smear on the night.

The pale smear of light was broadening across the dun-coloured sky.

His face was only a blur in the gloom, a pale smear from which all hope had been erased.

He was carrying the canvas bag, a pale smear against his dark pants; even in the blackness they could see that it hung limp and empty.

Hudson, Killian, and I shot the master vampire, until there was a pale smear of wall through his chest.

The lights of the station are pale smears, and the roar of the rushing train stuns the senses.

The sun was still a pale smear just above the horizon.