French houses are cleaner even than ours externally, being all neatly whitewashed!

There is no attempt at decoration; a few only of the jewellers' shops are whitewashed inside, the best being hung with the cheapest and gaudiest of French or German coloured prints.

The room was newly whitewashed, clean, and fresh.

The schoolmaster "had the ceiling of the schoolroom new-whitewashed, and the ladder remained there.

But I thought to myself how handy it would be to have one on 'em in the neighborhood to rent out by the day to whitewash overhead or shingle the barn; they wouldn't even have to git up in a chair, and Id'no but they could lay a chimbly standin' on the ground; they wuz immense.

If it has been necessary in some chapters to multiply unpleasant facts, the reader must blame the sentimentalists who have so persistently whitewashed the savages that it has become necessary, in the interest of truth, to show them in their real colors.

Each corpse was in a separate rooma plain whitewashed compartment, with a square brick edifice in the centre containing the body.

The walls, slightly relieved on each side by two imitation columns, are calmly coloured; the ceiling, containing a floriated centre piece, is plainly whitewashed; the gas stands have no pride in them; the pulpit is small, durable, unpretentious.

It was a long apartment with low ceiling and walls of hewn logs chinked and plastered and all beautifully whitewashed and clean.

I'd whitewash pretty thorough.

The rooms were bare and square, whitewashed exquisitely, the furniture dark old cherry and walnut of a style three generations past.

Yet we could not help admiring the well-swept streets, freshly whitewashed houses, and general air of prosperity and enterprise.