they murmur Because I have not shed their blood, nor led them To dry into the deserts' dust by myriads, Or whiten with their bones the banks of Ganges, Nor decimated them with savage laws, Nor sweated them to build up pyramids Or Babylonian walls.

" The Boy stood up, back to the fire, eyes on the hilltops whitening in the starlight.

" Johnnie's fair face whitened at the sinister words.

Three such nights whitened into dawn and showed me no land, and the off-shore wind would not let me go.

The naked trees were like pillars in the mist, the grass was grey and whitened to the distance, the world had mislaid its horizon, and one's eye slid up without check between the trees to where the last word of a daylight moon whispered in the sky.

Doctor Percival came over every hour to see him, and I was sure that his hair whitened from time to time.

The intruder was aged; his face was tawny by exposure, and his hair thinned and whitened by time.

" With literary ventures stowed As full as ship can be, The good ship "Author" holds her way Over the fickle sea; Now sings the wind, and, all serene, The ripples forth and back Lap lightly round her gleaming sides And whiten on her track.

It was when they had left the wooded land behind them and the moors lifted up their naked shoulders, one after another, darker than dark, into a sky already whitening above the hidden moon.

The faces of the New York delegation whitened as the balloting progressed and the torrent of Lincoln's popularity became a river.

Mountains, red, gray, and black, rise close at hand on the right, whitened around their bases with banks of enduring snow; on the left swells the huge red mass of Mount Gibbs, while in front the eye wanders down the shadowy cañon, and out on the warm plain of Mono, where the lake is seen gleaming like a burnished metallic disk, with clusters of lofty volcanic cones to the south of it.

How they ruffle the solid woodlands in their passage, and make them shudder and whiten like a single willow!

Miss Gerald had drooped in the milder weather; but the cold braced and lifted her, and with its help she now pushed her walks farther, and was eager every day for some excursion to the little towns that whitened along the shores, or the villages that glimmered from the olive-orchards of the hills.

Snow began to whiten through the gray.

Their bones lie whitening among the caverns of the deep.

And my head whitens for the beauteous one, With pearly teeth.