No sooner had I crossed their threshold than my eyes were riveted to a young blueeyed beauty with waves of flaxen hair cascading down her white and blue ski jacket.
Morning came slowly with a pale yellow light. The train was slowing down as it came into the town of La Crosse where the three soldiers would get off the train. The station was empty because it was Sunday.
Harry stretched out his hand at last to take the yellowish envelope, addressed in emerald green. To Mr. H. Potter, The Floor, Hut-on-the-Rock, The Sea.
Then carefully scanning the fretted face of the precipice through the spray, I at length noticed a yellowish moss-cushion, growing on the edge of a level tablet within five or six feet of the outer folds of the fall.
For example, a snail that sits in the sunlight, in the bright sun, if it has a pale yellow shell, it doesn't heat up as much as a snail that sits inside a dark brown shell.
The mute's name was Carl. He was a sallow young man who worked in one of the mills. His eyes were pale yellow and his teeth so brittle and transparent that they seemed pale and yellow also.
Seeing the glances of Nekhludoff and the young man, the lovers — the convict and the flaxen-haired girl — stretched their clasping hands, threw back their heads, and began to dance in a circle.