35 collocations for whitewashing

You're one of the last koind yoursilf, Mike, for you never go nigh a church, except to whitewash the walls of it.

Now, I do not propose to whitewash this enlightened but unscrupulous robber.

They always come around in time to whitewash the cellars.

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.

In Indiana, the right to petition has been most nobly advocated in a protest, by a member, against some puny resolutions of the Legislature of that State to whitewash slavery.

We whitewashed the church inside and out, and finished the job about half-past eleven o'clock.

A village Jack-of-all-trades, Mr. Ossian Popham, generally and familiarly called "Osh" Popham, had been called in to whitewash existing closets and put hooks in them; also, with Bill Harmon's consent, to make new ones here and there in handy corners.

The entire city has been "whitewashed" a bright rose color, every house having almost the same tint, which gives a peculiar appearance.

I'm going to whitewash the corner where they belong and make it look as fine as a fiddle before the time comes to use them.

There is a strange class of men who always stand with a brush in hand ready to whitewash any degraded creature, be he the devil himself.

They sometimes whitewash their faces like clowns in circuses; paint lines upon their cheeks and draw marks under their eyes to give them an inhuman appearance.

When the customary period of a few days has elapsed, she is allowed to cook again, after first whitewashing the floor of the hut.

Yale had whitewashed Harvard for the first time in that game.

The little white-throated sparrows came familiarly about the palm cabins and whitewashed houses and trilled on the rooftrees.

All the pedants and sophists of Germany cannot whitewash Frederic II. or Henry VIII.

It is not the place for whitewashing Richard III, or representing him as a man of erect and graceful figure.

Past an ancient Norman castle on which was whitewashed the legend "Up De Valera!"

It was too evidently a move to take advantage of the recent Tractarian discomfiture to whitewash Dr. Hampden's Liberalism.

An' she used to sen' dem nice things when they war sick, and hab der cabins whitewashed an' lookin' like new pins, an' look arter dere chillen.

The hero of the work hardly exerts influence enough on the revolutionary contest to justify the attempt of piling on him so much of the materials of that momentous contest, and I think, moreover, there is a perceptible attempt made to whitewash a man who lived and died with no slight nor undeserved opprobrium." 19th.

We shall have rain, see if we don't; rain or no rain, I'll whitewash to-morrow.

About day after to-morrow Bucks' organ, the Tribune, will come out with an 'inspired' editorial whitewashing the entire capitol outfit.

There is no whitewashing this passage: "If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his."

To him thus his friend made answer, Smiling archly: "Yes, 't will glisten, But if you would paint it first, And then whitewash o'er the pictures, The effect would be much better".

She cleaned her ceiling, whitewashed the plastering, and made everything about the house look as comfortable as possible, and enjoyed the privilege, at least, of doing as she pleased, without being found fault with, which was to her a great luxury, as her expressed wishes were generally vetoed at once.

35 collocations for  whitewashing