95 adjectives to describe whiteness

The neighbourhood of the Desert, where the greater part of the year the air is filled with hot particles of sand, is very unfavourable to the sight; the dazzling whiteness of the whitewashed houses also greatly injures the eyes.

The guide tells you to pause in your scrambling over loose stones and muddy soil,which you are always willing to do,and to put your head through a circular aperture, and to look up while he lights the Bengal light; you obey, and look up upon columns of fluted, snowy whiteness; he tells you to look down, and you follow the same pillars downup to heights which the light cannot climb, down to depths on which it cannot fall.

'There is nothing,' I said, and scorn came into my soul; but even as I spoke I sawI cannot tell what I sawa moving spot of milky whiteness in that dark and miserable wilderness, no bigger than a man's hand, no bigger than a flower.

Each has its significant proper name, which in most cases conveys the idea of brilliant whiteness, a characteristic of Celtic fairy objects.

And there's the Fairy Palace all complete," he added, as, the mists still rising, was discovered on the slope of the other side a long and extremely ornate building, the pure whiteness of which was reflected in the marvellous blue and opal of the lake.

" These remarks of the children caused all in the canoe to more closely scan the great round moon that was shining with silvery whiteness straight in front of them.

The towers and castles, which are of a delicate whiteness, rising in the midst of these groves of myrtles, render the scene interesting.

His face was turned towards the street, and was of a deadly whiteness, while his eyes were screwed up as though he dared not open them upon the horror which faced them.

The glaring whiteness of the thing she had thrown over her shoulders while her hair was being brushed made her look worse.

Except when excited, Grace Draper never has any color, but the usual clear pallor of her face had changed to a grayish whiteness.

The marble used for them is of remarkable whiteness and purity, worthy, indeed, of these great works of art.

The shred of moon, hanging prophetic of doom, let out its ghastly whiteness to ghost the village.

The garden-path stretched downward from his feet, gleaming like the track of a snail; the roof of the little well (mostly dry), the well-cover, the top rail of the garden-gate, were varnished with the same dull liquid glaze; while, far away in the vale, a faint whiteness of more than usual extent showed that the rivers were high in the meads.

The people of Arras are uncommonly dirty, and the lacemakers do not in this matter differ from their fellow-citizens; yet at the door of a house, which, but for the surrounding ones, you would suppose the common receptacle of all the filth in the vicinage, is often seated a female artizan, whose fingers are forming a point of unblemished whiteness.

In one pew was a family of whites, next a family of colored persons, and behind that perhaps might be seen, side by side, the ebon hue of the negro, the mixed tint of the mulatto, and the unblended whiteness of the European.

I say in marriage an au delà is impossible ... the endless duet of the marble and the water, the enervation of burning odours, the baptismal whiteness of women, light, ideal tissues, eyes strangely dark with kohl, names that evoke palm trees and ruins, Spanish moonlight or maybe Persepolis.

And it falls over her feet, and her hands are crossed over her breast, and all praise in low but ardent words the excessive whiteness of the garment.

His relaxed features had the hue of death, and his parched lips, from a livid blue, became of an ashy whiteness.

He does, however, bring my hat to a marvellous whiteness and it may be true that he has really tended heads that are now gone beyond Constantinople.

I was privileged to observe the following day that my neighbor's daughter was still of a dusky whiteness, the baffling, shaded whiteness of soft new snow in a cedar thicket.

It angered Lamar, remembering how the creamy whiteness of the full-blown flower exhaled passion of which the crimsonest rose knew nothing,a content, ecstasy, in animal life.

Her face was white; the thin bluish whiteness of skim milk.

Ady darted forward like a moonbeam in the midst of another moonbeam, and seen by its superior whiteness.

I could not keep my eyes from the fair face beside me, with its delicately-cut profile, made all the more cameo-like by its pallid whiteness.

The blinds were drawn down over the windows; a sort of blank whiteness, greyness, was in the place, which no one ever entered.

95 adjectives to describe  whiteness