paling

He looked at Anya, face paling, then back at the torchbearer.

What, you might ask, prompted this remark from the paling former personality?

No medicine is risk-free, but complications are rare and most are not serious, paling in comparison with the potential harm caused by Covid, even to younger people.

I absolutely must go in by myself, though I hate being stuck up in the barouche-landau without a companion; but Augusta, I believe, with her own good-will, would never stir beyond the park paling.’

“Yes, well, I meant, ah, more for personal emergencies,” Gwystyl explained, paling.