pall quotes

The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

-Wilfred Owen
  'Anthem for Doomed Youth'.

I suppose that even the most pleasurable of imaginable occupations, that of batting baseballs through the windows of the RCA Building, would pall a little as the days ran on.

-James Grover Thurber
  TheThurber Carnival,'Memoirs of a Drudge'.