| I slopped the stuff on and miraculously the ashen timbers of our bench and table suite turned slowly back to a healthy brown. |
| Through years of boot soles and Border collie paws the unfinished plank floor has grayed and smoothed to ashen silk. |
| The rest of us just continue to be stressed out, over worked, ashen and grey faced and up to our necks in debt. |
| Then his milk-white face turned ashen, and suddenly his pale blue eyes opened widely. |
| As soon as I reached my work place I saw ashen faces and tears in the eyes of my colleagues. |
| His face was ashen white, and he looked like a ghost, his skin almost translucent. |
