A soft wind moved a dried leaf across the gravel of the road, and the aspen leaves brushed their pale palms.

They were the hands- of the young girl he had married almost thirty years ago, and the pale palms were dyed with henna.

The cottonwoods brushed their pale green palms together, rustling in the still, hot afternoon.

The younger man held out both hands, pale palms up, in a placating gesture.

It was only the spatulate nose and the pale palms of his hands that were negroid.

He just spread his hands, pale palms up.

Aboli showed him his empty hands, holding up his pale palms before Schreuder's eyes.

Their pale, Earth-human palms were showing as they pressed them repeat-edly against the inside of the canopy.

He looked up from the pale palms of his callused black hands, awe-stricken and fearful.

The eyes were open, staring wide and blind, the hands so contracted that the nails drew half moons of blood from his pale palms.