Richard Maule's usual colouring was a curious chalky white, and those of his visitors whose breeding was perhaps not quite so perfect as it might have been, almost always commented, either to Mrs. Maule or to Dick Wantele, on Mr. Maule's peculiar complexion.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
They shrieked with laughter as she stood blinking at them, her white-lashed eyes, on which a chalky whiteness was growing, bland and innocent.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
The eggshells make our complexion white and chalky, and we are very fond of them.
"Dot and Tot of Merryland"
L. Frank Baum