Facial Color
Facial Color
See Also: BLUSHES, COLOR, PALLOR, RED, WHITE
- A face like a raw steak —John Dos Passos
- An extremely florid face, as if his blood pressure was about to pop —Peter Meinke
- A bluish pallor had spread like a shadow over his face —Walter De La Mare
- Carried a ruddy stain on either cheek, like a ripe apple —Robert Louis Stevenson
- Cheeks and bunchy lips as red as they would have been if she had fallen into a pot of jam —Frank Swinnerton
- Coloring as natural as a bird’s egg or a leaf —Frank Tuohy
- Coloring … so like the bloom of a ripe fruit, that nature in her seemed to have rivalled art —Italo Svevo
- The color spread across his face like a bush fire —Mike Fredman
- Face … a curious, flat color, like the inside of a raw potato —Susan Hill
- A face as white and almost as smooth as a bar of soap —Scott Spencer
- Face dark with furious blood, dark as a plum —Guy Vanderhaeghe
A variation by Gloria Norris: “Face … turned purple as a plum.”
- Face … dull red, as if baked by the heat of blazing towns —Stephen French Whitman
- Face glows, spotty, like there’s a tiny pink bulb burning behind each cheek —Sharon Sheehe Stark
- (Marley’s) face … had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar —Charles Dickens
- Face like a lobster —Robert Louis Stevenson
- Face like a raw side of beef —Robert Campbell
- Face … like a strawberry —Mary Hedin
In Hedin’s short story, The Secret, the woman with the strawberry-like face had been bending over a stove.
- (Passion has made his) face like pale ivory —Oscar Wilde
- Face pale and lined like a map —Hugh Walpole
- Face … pale as death and far more ghastly —Nathaniel Hawthorne
- A face … puffy and sallow, the color of old piano keys —William Boyd
In the novel, An Ice-Cream War, the author continues as follows: “As if he were just recovering from an illness or about to be seriously afflicted by one.”
- Face..red as a parrot’s —Dame Edith Sitwell
- Face … ruddy, flushed with blood, like a slaughterer’s —Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Face shone red as a cock’s comb —Rita Mae Brown
- Faces red as steak —Sharon Olds
- Faces stained by the cool night like wine —Dame Edith Sitwell
- Faces white like paste —Hugh Walpole
- Face the color and texture of kangaroo hide —Frank Ross
- Face … the color of cat’s meat —James Thurber
- Face turned to a dull white, like bread dough —Anon
- Face went gray, like the mortar in the trough —Henry Van Dyke
- Face yellow like ancient paper —Arthur A. Cohen
- Great blushing face, like a Dutch cheese —Jilly Cooper
- Her color had been pared away, like you pare an apple —Donald McCaig
- Her color was high, as though she had been sitting near a fire —Geoffrey Wolff
- Her face was … white-powdered like a marshmallow —Frank Tuohy
- A medium dark face, like antique gold under a black light —Loren D. Estleman
- Tanned as a hound’s tooth —Robert Traver
- Two spots of rouge like paper discs pasted on her cheekbones —William Faulkner
- Unnaturally red cheeks like varnished apples —Edith Wharton