The carrion birds circled high overhead, black against the pallid sky, then plunged.

The light flushing of its pallid sky was, as before, the first sign.

The sun was gone, and a cool pallid sky was fading slowly.

The shadowy, skeleton trees made lace patterns against a greenish, pallid sky thinning to frost.

Even when night had been almost banished from the pallid arctic sky, the hills ashore stayed brown and sere.

The pallid sky was pregnant with snow.

Clodius wanted to shout to the pallid sky floating higher above them than any sky had a right to do.

Now Varzil gathered it up, form-ing a tall obelisk like a finger pointing to the pallid sky.

Before them, darkling against a pallid sky, the great mountains reared their threatening heads.

The trees stayed motionless as stalagmites holding up the pallid sky, and yet he felt as though they were about to shift in some indefinable way.