You can always tell them, for the snow and the crust over them are whiter than that on the rest of the ice, and like a sponge.

He used to sit there at that window and watch her in the garden, after they came back from London, and every day he saw her whiter and thinner.

This is a very good foundation for onion, lobster, or oyster sauce: using milk instead of water makes it look so much whiter and more delicate.

It should now be removed from the washing-house and hung up to dry or spread out to bleach, if there are conveniences for it; and the earlier in the day this is done, the clearer and whiter will be the linen.

Lenore's quick eyes noted his face had grown thin and haggard, and she made sure with a pang that his hair was whiter.

She lay as he had left her, her face whiter than he had ever seen it, her eyes shut, certain small blue veins making a delicate tracery across the lids.

Sukey's cheek, which was usually pale, was now whiter than a ghost.

"She said it would make it whiteI reckon the more you put in the whiter the blamed thing'll be.

To have the strain of the time broken by him was like hearing, on a lonely whiter wakening, the clock strike reassuring dawn.

Blue-grey eyes she has, and brows Whiter than the winter snows; And her face is like a flower, As she gazes from the tower: As she gazes far below Where the garden roses blow, And the thrush and blackbird sing In the pleasant time of spring.

There was no answer, "Mistress?" he called, and then, after an interval, the flies of the tent parteda white hand, and a whiter wrist, appeared, and a red oleander fell on the sands of the desert.

He spoke hurriedly, growing whiter and more tremulous as he went on.

The clearer and whiter they are the better they are likely to be.

" "Oh," said Mary, her pale cheek growing whiter with apprehension; "That's his footsteps now, Miss Belle don't say anything to him, Joe's as good and kind a man as I ever saw when he is sober, but sometimes he is really ugly when he has been drinking.

Then her eyes rolled round again and met my own, and her skin went even whiter than before.

The servant was as usual away, and there was no eye watching Margaret as with burning cheeks and beating heart she crossed the threshold of the door, pausing not, faltering not, until the bed was reachedthe bed where Hagar lay, her crippled hands folded meekly upon her breast, her white hair shading a whiter face, and a look about her half-shut mouth as if the thin, pale lips had been much used of late to breathe the word "Forgive."

Then comes the golden evening, and its light stays long upon the trailing vines, while the great lilies gleam whiter and their breath floods the air with unearthly fragrance.

I had watched her grow whiter and whiter and heard the faintness of her sighs, so that when she swayed I grasped her by the arm and held her up until her husband relieved me of her weight.

I had watched her grow whiter and whiter and heard the faintness of her sighs, so that when she swayed I grasped her by the arm and held her up until her husband relieved me of her weight.

'White-heart hickory' is a name often given to this species, because the wood is supposed, when young, to be whiter than that of any of the others," "Pignut is another beautiful name," said Malcolm, who was disposed to be critical.

Had their innocence been purer than alabaster or whiter than the driven snow they were probably well advised under existing circumstances in not remaining to take their trial.

The white reef with its whiter rim of plunging surf, the swaying palms, the flashing waterfall, the joyous people, straight as Greeks and colored like varnished leather, the bread-fruit tree and the brown orange, the purple splendor of the vine called Bougainvillia, and above all the volcanic mountains, green fringed with huge trees, with tree ferns and palms, the whole tied together into an impenetrable jungle by the long armed lianas.

Heads powdered even whiter than the originals, laced waistcoats, enormous lappets, and countenances all ingeniously disposed so as to smile at each other, encumber the wainscot, and distress the unlucky visitor, who is obliged to bear testimony to the resemblance.

One May-morning in the streets of London these tinsel-decorated merry-makers with their sooty cheeks and black lips lined with red, and staring eyes whose white seemed whiter still by contrast with the darkness of their cases, and their ivory teeth kept sound and brilliant with the professional powder, besieged George Selwyn and his arm-in-arm companion, Lord Pembroke, for May-day boxes.

Dark clothing, milky white cuffs from which his grey tapering hands hung down; a collar a little whiter than the rest.