“As the plants began to wither and die, John regretted the fact that he hadn't installed the expensive irrigation system he had considered buying the year before.”

“Being unable to compete with the large companies under these circumstances, the small business will fail.”

“How our faces would pale with fear at even the possibility of a single sin to be woven like a thread into the garment in which we are to appear throughout eternity.”

“Everyone knows that I pale easily after watching a horror movie.”

“She walked out onto the large garden during the cold winter morning and noticed the withering of flowers around her.”

“He was described as a plump child, but with a shade of paleness in his face that was out of keeping with the rest of his appearance.”

“Of the brightness which he poured forth in his zenith, a few beams had been reflected upon my humble person, and the long shadow he left at his decline involved my fate likewise in its wide extending darkness.”