Between the girls was an older woman, her face so colourless she might as well have been a lifesize origami toy, infolded, white and easily crushed.

She looked up at Ruth, her face transparent, almost colourless; but her eyes were as deep as the sea.

He had long iron hair swept back from his brow, a silky beard trimmed like a shaving brush, and a colourless face with faraway eyes.

The one who had spoken was a tall and very thin man with a blue-black beard and a colourless face.

He recognised the iron mask of Mr. Bodiham and the pale, colourless face of his wife.

Grey sideburns protruded below the killer's dark hat; thin steel-rimmed glasses were perched low on the nose of his pale, colourless face.

Sarah came running from the parlour, her face colourless.

He looked at her colourless face.

He longed to get at him, to grip him by the throat, to scream out insults into that pale, stern, colourless face.

The man's colourless face and manner seemed to assert that the whole following had been an accident.