The shaft, straight, pale and rigid, stuck out about eighteen inches.

Soon this was open, and a pale shaft of light filtered across the equipment on the counter.

A pale shaft of moonlight filtered through the tree branches, lighting her bloody face and wide staring eyes.

A truly delicious leek to eat, with medium-length pale shafts.

A pale shaft of light played up through the mist, a cone opening to the sky.

He peered ahead after the pale shaft from his pen-light into what seemed like a rather large room.

The blinding ray from his fingertip faded to a pale shaft of milky moonlight.

Finally there is only a pale shaft of light, moving through the dark, picking out occasional whitecaps.

The front flap of the man's breeches was undone, and through the opening thrust a pale shaft with a pink head.

At the end of the long, pale shaft was a steel head that looked as if it were made of razor blades.