The pale smudge of smoke that drifts outside the window seems as if it will never blow away.

He lay still beneath a stunted blackthorn and only the pale smudge of his hair let Breaca see him.

Blood streaked the tiled wall in pale smudges, like a faded fingerpainting.

The pale blue smudges under her eyes made him frown.

She looked at me over the top of the car, her face a pale smudge against the surrounding darkness.

Her face was a pale smudge against the white gleam of the pillow.

Through the fringe, I saw a pale brown smudge hidden among the shiny black trunks.

There was a pale smudge of pink in the east as 1 grasped his taper and waved it high.

If we pointed them "downward" we could see a pale smudge of illumination so far below that it revealed nothing.

Below it, a face was a pale smudge against the black of the water.