Before her horrified eyes, the filmy creature turned a ghastly shade of brown, flecked with black and yellow spots.

Ruth looked a ghastly shade under the caking black mud.

The dirt from her features had dissipated in the water, but her skin was still sunken and a ghastly shade of powdery white.

In the light of the overhead cylinders, they all looked a pale and ghastly shade of blue.

His face was a ghastly shade of grayish white.

But few followed him; for his men quailed and grew sick in that ghastly shade, and many fell upon the ground.

They entered the reception room together, interrupting the re-ceptionist, who had been painting her knuckles a ghastly shade of green.

Beneath the banks of fluorescent light, his skin was a ghastly shade of yellow, here and there mottled with dry, dead patches of brown.

The plastic used in garage kits tends to uniformly ghastly shades, as the enthusiast-manufacturers know that no kit, assembled, will ever remain unpainted.

They had suffocated, their lips and fingernails the same ghastly shade of blue as those of everyone else on board.