I swore to my wife that I would kill her if I found her in his company again, and I led her back with me, sobbing and trembling, and as white as a piece of paper.
Ay, the white lamb, she might well be surprised when she read death on a face that had seldom looked anything but love upon her before.
The slack suit of deep blue, revealing a soft white blouse at the neck of the jacket, was in the best of taste, but her heavy application of lipstick was crude.
He felt his face go white and then flush as he stared at her.
Occasional gusts ofwhite smoke burst into being just beneath them and hung a moment suspended before racing on; or a distant squirt of lace-like shrapnel, curving ever downward, came to see what went on behind the Allied lines.
But his cheeks had turned from whiteto crimson, and his eyes flashed a holy, or an unholy, fire.
Although his face was white and somewhat drawn, the illness had disappeared; he had eaten a man's size breakfast and declared himself to be fit.
He struck out powerfully, straight for the man he had sworn to kill, but in changing once from the overhand to side stroke he saw Jeb, white as a sheet, swimming directly behind.
Far to the north they fell and burst into white spray, as though a long Atlantic comber were pounding on a rocky shore.
She lifted up her white face to understand his words, then she rose up like one who slowly comes to the use of her limbs.
The church and churchyard above them were flooded with silver light, for the moon was high in the heavens: the irregular steps were here and there in pure white clearness, here and there in blackest shadow.
Flocks of seagulls hovered about the edge of the waves, slowly rising and turning their white under-plumage to glimmer in the sunlight as Philip approached.
A sudden suspicion flashed upon him, a pang of jealous rage stabbed him to the heart, and he grew white and rigid.
She lifted her white face, which she had hidden in her hands; she would not see Espy’s imploring look.
The first words were spoken low and hurriedly, and the last came from the white lips in a sharp cry of agony.
She usually wore white gowns with pink or blue ribbons, and it was sweetly becoming.
She caught sight of the face, white with the pallor of death and convulsed with pain.
She had hardly begun her meal when, at a whining sound, Kathleen opened the door leading into the hall and admitted a curly lap-dog as white as snow, a beautiful little creature.
She just lays there with her eyes shut, and every once in a while I see a big tear a-rollin’ down them thin, white cheeks o’ hern.
With De Musset, George Sand had to reckon on dealing with a writing man, and his accounts of "The Little White Blackbird" had taught her caution.
Bach's visit to Buxtehude formed anotherwhite milestone in his career.
The Prince Consort was too perfect a gentleman to ever obtrude when his wife was entertaining callers, but now he apologized for not knowing the Meister had honored them--which we hope was a white lie.
Blissful are the days since I knew you, for you have brought within my range of vision new constellations, and into my soul has come the clear, white light of peace and truth.
The only mark of age he carried was his flowing white hair.
Yes, I believe so," replied Constance, absently, with a glance towards the white face.
Rig way took him across a field in which there was a newly bourgeoned copse; he remembered that, last spring, he had found white violets about the roots of the trees.
It appeared more strongly in the girl's face attired as she now was, her neck at liberty from the white linen collar, and her features cast into relief by a dress of dark material.
Jewelry sparkled in her hair, from her white throat, and on her fingers.
She had a very shapely neck, the skinwhite and delicate; her facial complexion was admirably pure and of warmish tint.
Henceforward it was impossible to forget that Albert had worn the white flower of a blameless life.
I was dressed in a white lace dress, with a white crape bonnet with a wreath of white roses round it.
He was rewarded by a copy of the Prince's speeches, bound in white morocco, with an inscription in the royal hand.
Si Smith store old Sis big white dog come out and piched into J.
Josiar Higgins has got white whiskers on his throte jest like the howling munkeys and i bet he can howl as loud sundays.
Charley Treadwill has got a big white and black bull named Nickerbocker whitch he drives in a wagon with a bit in his mouth and he is going to have a race with a bull from Portsmouth.
Exeter band and then a lot of ox teems full of wimen in white with their hides all brushed up with curry combs and their horns all cuvered with ribbons and evergreens in their slats.
Charlie Lane, the feller whitch was in the boat, had on sum white britches and we had got enuf and was going back when one of the wimmen sed oh see that splended one we must have that one.
With white and jewelled arms she thrust Out through the waves and lay upon the foam.
Last night I wrote to her a glimmering verse; She is white with a wan passion for my lips.
The coast still seemed veiled, the greatwhite coast, perpendicular as a wall.
The door at which they had knocked was opened by an old woman, neat looking, with a white nightcap enclosing a thin face with sharp features, one of those good, rough faces of a hard-working and faithful woman.
Sometimes the mother birds will not leave their nests, and are riddled with shot, causing drops of blood to spurt out on the white cliff, and the animal dies without having deserted her eggs.
The old man was sitting on his bed, with a tipsy look, his long white hair falling over his face.
Three white horses, with enormous heads and great round knees, were the first things one noticed.
Soldiers in red trousers had escorted him to the tomb and men in white cravats had spoken words and shed tears that seemed to be sincere beside his grave.
In a few seconds she made him look like a model fit for a great painter, with his long white locks flowing on his neck.
They arrived in front of a very neat littlewhite house.
One of the brilliant companies of young and comely men in white doublets who took part in the procession was led by Simon Wadlow, the vintner and host of the "Devil" tavern.
Hath my sword therefore broken through London gate that you should leave me at the White Hart in Southwark?
Equal in interest to the last-named inn was the "White Hart.
The fine red-brick gateway with white stone dressings, standing close to the tower of Lambeth Church, is very imposing as seen from the road, and was built by Archbishop Cardinal Moreton in 1490.
Pen to White Hall; but there finding the Duke gone to his lodgings at St. James's for alltogether, his Duchesse being ready to lie in, we to him and there did our usual business.
The inn was of ancient origin, the White Friars having had a grant of the "Hospitium vocatum Le Bolt en ton" as early as the year 1443.
The white marble staircase is fine, and there are glorious portraits of Charles I.
The husk that in those lonely hours in the forest had been loosened, broken, now fell away from him, and a new man knelt by the white bed, silent, gazing from child to wife with eyes more eloquent than any words could be.
Not much wings and curls and white robes about me, Maree.
She touched the white walls softly, and passed her hand over the pink mats on the bureau with wondering awe.
The fine white bread, the golden butter, the bit of broiled fish, smoking hot, seemed viands of paradise to the hungry girl.
And then she curled up in the white bed when Abby bade her, as like a kitten as anything could be.
The spot where he had been lying was several miles from the white cottage, yet he was conscious of no time, no distance.
That whitehouse there, with the bright green blinds!
Then her eyes, they were just two bits of the blue sky in her head, and her little teeth were like white pearls, and her lips were always smiling.
Even her strong, hard-worked hands werewhite from the storm of feeling within.
A woman in a tall peasant's cap and white apron came forward and demanded in French what she could serve the little dears with.
I can see it as her mother told me about it-blue eyes, golden hair, teeth white and like little pearls, rosy, cherry lips.
The purity of the white face on which the moon shone filled the bad man who approached her with a kind of awe.
His pretty baby face looked very white as he slept, and when Cecile laid her hand on his cheek it was cold.
Trees vanished, landmarks disappeared, and the children could see nothing before them or behind them but this white wall, which seemed to press them in and hem them round.
He covered the pretty head tenderly with his great brown palm, and his black eyes were full of the tenderest love and sorrow as they looked at the little white face.
The proverbial saying, "eating off the floor," might have been practiced on those white boards.
She closed her languid eyes, only knowing that she was comfortable and happy, and feeling that she did not care much about anything if only she might rest on forever in that delicious white bed.
She was white as a sheet, and all the hardness had gone out of her.
How white was her thin face, how ragged her shabby gown!
She went white as marble, and her eyes blazed at me and then grew hard, and she put her head down on her hands, and, do all in my power, I could not get a word out of her.
With furious strength he attacked the bricks edging the hole and as he pried free each brick he could again get a glimpse of those white delicate fingers lifting it carefully away.
White as her robes, pale as death and as still, the girl looked out at them, and only that sick pallor of her face and the glitter of her dark eyes betrayed the tumult within.
She stood there like a white image of war, her hand on that infernal automatic.
Farther on came glimpses of farm lands, the wheat rising in bright spears, and of well-wooded heights and in the distance the white houses of Demerdache against the Gibel Achmar beyond.
And then he caught sight of a familiar pair of gray eyes smiling over the white veil of an odalisque.
That is the song for you, little white rose of beauty.
It was not the heat which had brought those fine beads of moisture to his brow, whiteabove the line of brown, and drawn such a pale ring about his mouth.
She was so white now, so silent, so distrait, that all the chatter of the younger girls who were lingering around her could not dispel the feeling of depression.
It was a small bedroom evidently very recently furnished in new and white shining lacquer of French design, elaborately inlaid with painted porcelains and draped with a profusion of rosy taffeta.
Miriam had finished her fond protestation that they were as like as two roses, as two white roses, bloom and bud, she launched that little cunning phrase on which she had spent such eager hoping.
Although much plundered, the walls were intact, and the delicate carvings in the white limestone walls were exceptional examples.
Round and white it went sailing blandly over the eternal monotony of desert.
As I have still a white page before me, I will detail to you one of my youthful adventures.
A visiter at the White House remembers well on one occasion, being then the only guest, when the Rhode Island difficulties were in their midst, when some one laughingly asked him, 'how he would like to be a King?
The only inmates of the White House at present (May first) are the President with his three sons, and Mrs. Jones, his eldest daughter.
Thus far, they have been engraved in a masterly manner, reflecting additional beauty upon the clear letter-press and pure white paper by which the emulous printer is perpetuating the remembrance of his care and skill.
The avenue was alive with groups of people in earnest talk, and many visiters, particularly, members of the Democratic party, repaired to the White House at night to tender their thanks to the President for the course he had pursued.
We entered the White House at the southern front, and found the President seated with his son Tazwell by his side, a lad of fourteen, whom the President was teaching his lesson.
He receives the lady visiters of the White House with a deference and respect which has been much noticed, and which is not the manner of a worldling and a courtier, compliment and hollowness, but the impulse of a lofty and holy sentiment.
Inside, the permanent night light made a blue-white glow; a swivel chair stood just inside the door.
Jack Holloway was on his feet, a Fuzzy cradled in the crook of his left arm, his white mustache bristling truculently.
Once, in one of the weather-domed business centers, an elderly man with whitehair showing under his black beret greeted him.
Then another Fuzzy came in, and another; four of them, one carrying a tiny, squirming ball of white fur in her arms.
He was wearingwhite shoes, and they were both spotted with blood.
His bald head glistened, and a big nose peeped over the ambuscade of a bushy white mustache.
The pickup car jetted toward it; by the time it reached the spot, the shooting had stopped, and a crowd was gathering around something white on the ground.
Gerd came into sight, the fourth Fuzzy struggling under one arm and a little kitten, black with a white face, peeping over the crook of his other elbow.
As soon as Kellogg told them what we'd found, Mallin turned fish-belly white and wanted to know how we were going to suppress it.
For a moment he sat, puffing on the short pipe that had yellowed the corners of his white mustache, and looked down at the red rag tied to a bush against the rock face of the gorge five hundred yards away.
Especially for seventeen Fuzzies and a Baby Fuzzy and a little black-and-white kitten.
Mrs. Marton caught sight of Gladys, her hands clasped, her small white face and dark eyes gazing up beseechingly.
Let's cut them out," exclaimed Gladys, "we can cut out lovely things and then afterwards we can paste them on white paper and make all sorts of things with them.
She was lying on her couch, and her soft old face looked very white against the cushions.
I'm sure we'll be killed if she takes us over," replied Gladys, lifting her little white face and troubled eyes to the stranger.
Her white dress and her fair tresses reflected the flickering light, thus giving some brightness to the lofty hall, whose gloomy proportions were but partially revealed by the blazing fire and the fitful glare of the torch.
A long line of priests and choristers moved across the lofty hall within; bands of fair maidens robed in white approached Esgair, and tenderly saluting her placed her in their midst.
The black and gold harp, which Eudaemon and Miranda had together tuned and restored, formed a beautiful contrast to the white flowing robes and the fair arms of the young Princess.
Looking impatiently around in quest of them, to his horror and surprise Llewelyn perceived his son in the arms of a strange old man with a long hoary beard and white flowing garments.
Then, white and dripping as a storm-tost waterlily, the lovely figure of Rhuddlan's daughter slowly emerged from the lake until her feet were visible.
She then put Fido out of the room and closed the door, carefully concealing the white ensign in the blacksmith's wide hanging pocket.
The vision, obtained a few days before, of real beds and clean white sheets, combined with the prospect of being waited on by the comely nurses of the Australian and Canadian services, could only have one result.
Daylight revealed the white patch on the tree, but nobody seemed anxious to investigate too closely the tale of the cigarette.
These parties worked under brigade orders and a number of 28th men were, on one occasion, sent up an exposed slope accompanied by a white donkey.
A glance in the direction of Suvla revealed a sight resembling an exhibition of gigantic chrysanthemums--the white smoke of bursting shrapnel, before dissipating, closely resembling that flower in form.
The "28th" therefore wore a blue and white diamond, and by this badge was ever afterwards distinguished.
During the night of the 27th/28th November, snow began to fall and daylight revealed the whole country covered as with a white pall.
One young officer--small of stature--claimed to have pinned a white handkerchief on a tree close to the enemy's wire.
During the afternoon of Sunday, the 11th July, the Battalion in drill order, and without rifles, set out led by a guide and preceded by Victor mounted importantly on a white donkey.
It was broken up into enormous shell-holes and mine-craters, seamed with zigzag lines of white chalky rubble marking the German trenches, and strewn with the wire of demolished entanglements, fallen trees and the wreckage of houses.
I noticed the white band and Red Cross on their arms.
Those elaborately interlacing white chalky lines over the face of the landscape mark the run of the German trenches.
And there it stood all day with the Green above the Black, Whiteand Red.
When they were relieved, the survivors of the Division came back very tired and bedraggled, their faces black with battle smoke and their uniforms white from the chalky soil.
Down their blackened faces were whitefurrows made by their sweat.
Once the issue was exposed, Irishmen, with all the white heat which injustice inspires in their breasts, threw themselves into the battle.
During the battle of Sedan, which sealed the fate of France, an extraordinary incident occurred--a peasant was observed in one of the valleys within the area of the fight calmly guiding the plough drawn by a big white horse.
