A little scraped horseradish mixed in warm milk and rubbed on the face and hands will whiten the skin.
Soap is not at all a desirable medium for cleaning the teeth, as, though it may whiten for the time, the alkaline process destroys the enamel.
Boys kneeling with protruded lips to drink, And slender maids that homeward slowly bear The brimming pail, and busy dames that lay Their webs to whiten in the summer ray.
I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
She got for Martha, too, a lotion for her hands which, put on regularly every night, was sure to soften and whiten them.
When the summer is very dry, the river shrinks to a gentle, trickling thread of water, joining shallow pools, overhung with gray-green willows that whitenin the breeze.
Rubbing the hands once or twice a day in oatmeal tends to whiten them and make them soft and flexible.
To Soften andWhiten the Skin—Pate Axerasive of Bozin.
Oatmeal and warm water used every night and morning as a wash will whiten and soften the roughest and darkest hands.
I spent of my own money upon the stucco, thereby thinking to whiten my face with thee and hoping for thy bounties.
So Rustam mounted and taking ten thousand Arab horse made for his tribe, saying in himself, "I will do a deed shall whiten my face with King Gharib.
I am afraid I think he would be likely to make her out blacker than the last poet who had treated the subject, rather than be at any pains to whiten her.
The story turned from poetry into prose means, "Woe to him who draws near the two treacherous mountains of Didyme; the coast is strewn with wreckage, and if he hears the wind from off them shriek in his rigging his bones will whiten the shore.
She saw the handsome face whiten under its healthy brown.
The next week Owen earned eight shillings altogether: a few hours he put in assisting Crass to wash off and whiten a ceiling and paint a room, and there was one coffin-plate.
Several times during the week one or other of them was taken away to do some other work; once Crass and Slyme had to go and wash off and whiten a ceiling somewhere, and several times Sawkins was sent out to assist the plumbers.
The snows do notwhiten it; it hath been there many winters.
Thy bones will lie in the earth where thy fathers trod, but mine may whiten in the vault of some gloomy forest.
What benefit was it to Alfred to whiten with human bones a land which he knew it would be better to cultivate?
These women assert that they are possessed by the soul of some dead chief, and when they feel the divine afflatus, whiten their faces to attract attention, and anoint themselves with flour, which has a religious and sanctifying potency.
Southey and others have attempted to whiten this blackamore, but the veil that they throw over him is so transparent that it cannot deceive those who are in the least degree spiritually enlightened.
A little starch thrown into the bath will sometimes whiten the skin.
They canwhiten any colour by mixing White with it, and darken any colour by mixing Black, or some dark and dirty colour.
Do you like the houses of Seville and Cadiz, with walls that whiten a poor devil from head to foot whenever he happens to touch them?
It is remarkable that the super-aerated marine acid does not bleach living animal substances, at least it did not whiten a part of my hand which I for some minutes exposed to it.
To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.
To apply a white liquid composition to; to whiten with whitewash.
To whiten or clean with pipe clay, as a soldier's accouterments.
We sat down half inclined to give up, and leave our bones to whiten the sands.
Their bodies were thrown in a pile, where their bones still whitenthe sand.
The following method is also said to whiten lace:--It is first ironed slightly, then folded and sewn into a clean linen bag, which is then placed for 24 hours in pure olive oil.
This is the method employed by druggists and oilmen to whiten their castor and linseed oils.
White barley sugar is made with a strained decoction of barley instead of water, or starch is added to whiten it.
Simple immersion of the prints in a solution of hypochlorous acid (the article remaining in the solution for a longer or shorter space, according to the strength of the solution) is generally all that is required to whiten it.
