His face a ghastly white.
No end of people whose skins are dull and characterless modifications of the tint which we miscall white.

Some of these faces are pimply; some exhibit other signs of diseased blood; some show scars of a tint out of a harmony with the surrounding shades of color.

The white man's complexion makes no concealments.

It can't.

It seemed to have been designed as a catch-all for everything that can damage it.