416 examples of whitewashed in sentences

"More than that," I continued, "for nearly six weeks I lodged just behind the church, in a whitewashed cottage with a stock of oranges, pipes and boot-laces for sale in the window.

The horses, too, tired with the long day, point their ears ahead and step livelier when they see the whitewashed walls gleaming through the trees.

We won't be whitewashed, anyway.

The strong glaring light in the large whitewashed room dazzled my eyes.

The walls were whitewashed, and a few straw-covered stools formed the whole of its furniture.

No attempt was made to give them a neat appearancethey were not even whitewashed.

It was then whitewashed.

All the buildingsthe barn, gin-house, slaves' quarters and overseers' housewere whitewashed, and on this grass-grown street they made a neat and pretty appearance.

Adolphus whitewashed, according to promise; Pauline scrubbed, according to nature; they arranged and rearranged their little stock of furniture,set the loud-ticking day-clock on the mantel-shelf, and displayed around it the china cups, the flower-vase, and the little picture of their native town which Adolphus cut from a sheet of letter-paper some old friend had sent him, and framed with more tender feeling than skill.

The room wherein the congregation meet is bare, plain, and primitive-looking, with an open roof, whitewashed all round, and boarded off from a workshop at the southern end.

It is plain, ricketty, and whitewashed.

Their guide led the way up a flight of stone steps to the first floor, and down a whitewashed corridor, lit along one side with narrow barred casements.

She turned; the door at the end of it stood half-open; beyond it she saw the bars of the gallery, and through these a space of whitewashed wall at the end of the ward.

Here and there was the mansion of a wealthy planter, surrounded by whitewashed slave-cabins.

My room, which was whitewashed, and had deal furniture, was full of attractive gaiety.

It was a small, bare, whitewashed room, with a narrow cot, a washstand, a bureau, and two extraordinary chairsa huge one that rocked on damaged springs, enclosed in plaited leather like the case of an accordion, and one that had been a rocker, but stood unevenly on its diminished legs.

Every room in every habitation where a person had died of the plagueand there were few that had escaped the visitationwas ordered to be whitewashed, and the strongest fumigations were employed to remove the pestilential effluvia.

The ceiling was whitewashed, and decorated in the middle with a plaster centre-piece, from which hung a massive chandelier sparkling with prismatic rays from a hundred crystal pendants.

Mary had left the cottage a ruin, and it was sad to think of the clean thick thatch and the whitewashed walls covered with creeper and

It was there almost as he spoke, marked by a white-painted cross in a circle of whitewashed stones.

And there between the café and the souk gate was the same whitewashed niche where three lads used to sit with their feet tucked under their little kashabias, their chechias awry on their shaven polls, and their lips pursed to spit after the leather legs of the infidel conquerors passing by.

It was the best house in the place, whitewashed, and painted with figures of trees, men, animals, and birds, all in red ochre, and in a style of art truly archaic.

On one side was a big, whitewashed, tile-roofed house in which the foreman dweltan olive- skinned, slightly built, wiry man, with an olive-skinned wife and eight as pretty, fair-haired children as one could wish to see.

At one the large, red-tiled, whitewashed house stood on a grassy slope behind mango- trees.

The whitewashed front of the Meeting House was bathed, next evening, with soft sunset yellow when Mr. Penberthy the elder stole down the stairs between the exhortations, as his custom was, and stood bareheaded in the doorway respiring the cool air.

416 examples of  whitewashed  in sentences