59 collocations for whiten

It was not age that whitened his hair so much as it was his ten years of suffering.

A twenty-hour vigil had whitened his face, drawn in his cheeks, and painted his eyes with shadow; and now he wanted action.

Something in her terrible assurance whitened the cheeks of Landis, but he was also angered.

As it was it drove him to his knees, groggy, and with one eye half closed, yet with strength enough left to regain his feet as soon as I. This time he charged me like a wild bull, froth whitening his lips, scarcely appearing human in the yellow light.

But the snow that actually falls during April is usually only what Vermonters call "sugar-snow,"falling in the night and just whitening the surface for an hour or two, and taking its name, not so much from its looks as from the fact that it denotes the proper weather for "sugaring," namely, cold nights and warm days.

" Evening was closing in with a greenish-yellow sunset, and a big full moon pushing up to whiten the sky above it.

Already the first streaks were whitening the east.

Once all was wild enthusiasm and glad uproar; now men's lips were set, and women's smileless as they cheered; fewer handkerchiefs whitened the air, for wet eyes needed them; and sudden lulls, almost solemn in their stillness, followed the acclamations of the crowd.

I'm afraid you will whiten the soles of your boots, I mean.

The forest has fallen by the ax of our woodsmen; the soil has been made to teem by the tillage of our farmers; our commerce has whitened every ocean.

In a commercial point of view Alexandria was the most important city in the world, and its ships whitened every sea.

Eye ne'er hath seen more fearful slaughter: in streams of blood fell Christian men; the linen vestments of the dead did whiten the champaign even as it is whitened by the birds of autumn!"

Behind the cruiser's blanketing she paid off very slowly, but presently caught the breeze full and again whitened the water at her prow.

A misty radiance washes the tall houses, the garden-walls, the archways, even the moonlight does not whiten Fez, but only turns its gray to tarnished silver.

The guelder-rose's summer snow-balls, and the mock-orange with its penetrating odor, whiten the still gardens as we pass.

The next report that reached her related how a cloud of lime had suddenly descended from a broken arch of the cloister on the solemn verger, on his way to escort the Dean to the Minster, powdering his wig, whitening his black gown from collar to hem, and not a little endangering his eyesight.

For once I saw in the Tarentine vale, Where slow Galesus drenched the washy soil, 150 An old Corician yeoman, who had got A few neglected acres to his lot, Where neither corn nor pasture graced the field, Nor would the vine her purple harvest yield; But savoury herbs among the thorns were found, Vervain and poppy-flowers his garden crown'd, And drooping lilies whitened all the ground.

"I was so grievously affected by it," said he himself at a later period to M. de la Force, "that, as I pondered deeply upon it and held my head supported upon my hand, my apprehensions of the woes I foresaw for my country were such as to whiten one half of my mustache."

" Ida declined the brandy and the infallible preparation for whitening the hands; and not at all discouraged, Isabel went on: "Were there any young men at Herondale?

He carried something on his back, something white under the falling snow which whitened his hat and labouring shoulders.

The Ptolemies, descended from one of Alexander's generals, reigned in great magnificence at Alexandria, which was the commercial centre of the world, whose ships whitened the Mediterranean,that great inland lake, as it were, in the centre of the Roman Empire, around whose shores were countless cities and villas and works of art.

These carcases on either hand, Those bones that whiten all the land, My former deeds and triumphs tell, Beneath these jaws what numbers fell.' 60 'True,' says the man, 'the strength I saw Might well the brutal nation awe: But shall a monarch, brave like you, Place glory in so false a view?

The cows and oxen stood out still exposed, their backs whitened a little with the fine flakes which had fallen upon them.

Flocks of these storks whitened the marshes and lined the river banks.

In Lloydsborough Valley a thin sprinkling of snow whitened the meadows, enough to show the footprints of every hungry rabbit that loped across them; but there were not many such tracks.

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