21 collocations for bleaching

The fierce sun had not burned but bleached their skin; their blood was poisoned by the miasma the land breeze blew off at night.

Hadad was there, not smiling at all, but bleached white with excitement; he had brought a number of Arab officers with him, six or seven of whom were standing on the running- board of the front car and all arguing with Feisul, who sat back with his feet and hands tied, guarded by Narayan Singh.

Such a picture of sea-monsters and of coral that grows in the ocean's caverns, where mariners sleep, that shall give thee the night-mare for months, and cause thee to dream of wrecks and bleached bones for the rest of thy life?

She had dark eyes and bleached blonde hair pulled into a tight pony tail.

Or was it that other weapon in the Colonel's left that bleached the ruddy face?

Muztagh was a long way from being an albino, yet a tendency in that direction had bleached his hide.

When I was a boy, we were brought up to believe that we were born black with original sin, and that we bleached out a little under old Doc Hoover's preaching.

The rocks and bleached drift-logs, extending some way into the shaggy woods, showed a rise and fall of six or eight feet, caused partly by the dam at the outlet.

There might conceivedly be interests in the world worthy of so abject an absorption, so bleaching an obeisance of the individual; but Henry, with the dews of certain classics still upon him, remembered that anything really Olympian in its importance is always strong enough to smile.

One-half has been treated with bichloride of mercury, so as to bleach such portion of the image as is of silver, and finally the printsthe two halves of each being brought close togetherhave been mounted in groups, each group containing all the prints toned by a certain formula, with full information tabulated.

At intervals along the trail we came on the staring skull and bleached skeleton of a mule or ox.

The sea-breath in the New-England States thins the air and bleaches the sky, sucks the vitality out of Nature, I fancy, to put it into the brains of the people: but here, the earth every day in the year pulses out through hill or prairie or creek a full, untamed animal life,shakes off the snow too early in spring, in order to put forth untimed and useless blossoms, wasteful of her infinite strength.

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor Time unmake what poets know.

But nowhere are things more apt to respond to the brighter weather, nowhere is there so much difference between rain and sunshine, nowhere do the clouds roll together more grandly; those quaint suburban pastorals gather a certain quality of grandeur from the background of the great city, with its weighty atmosphere, and portent of storm in the rapid light on dome and bleached stone steeples.

The bare, bleached trunk of the tree shone strangely in the sinking sun, faintly tinted with rose.

The blazing sun, which already had cracked the unpainted shingles on his roof, had bleached the crude blue of his jumper and overalls.

Snow and rain and summer sun had bleached its wood, its runners were red streaks of rust, its rawhide lashings had been eaten off, but snugly rolled inside the tarpaulin was a sack of mail.

J.F. Carey tells how little naked boys, free Americans, work for Mr. Borden, the New York millionaire, packing cloth into bleaching vats, in a bath of chemicals that bleaches their little bodies like the bodies of lepers....

Money should wash them also, or at least money should bleach their descendants.

And presently we came to a kind of opening and turned off to see the laundry (Mrs. Lisphin had just brought home my things at bedtime); and there was a place to do the world's washing in, or bleach out all the Ethiopians!

One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told, in a very remarkable work lately published by an eye-witness, is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five-and-twentysufficient to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.

21 collocations for  bleaching