Elevated openings of this kind are closed in the usual manner with a rude, single-paneled door, which is often whitened with a coating of clayey gypsum.
As we pursued our way from East Boston, the water in the harbor, whitened with many a sail, sparkled in the morning sun, and glittered like ten thousand diamonds.
She had parted from him, many long years before, and now she had lived her threescore years and ten, and her head was whitened with passing years; but the infant of a few days had gone before her.
Her rich store of fruits lay spread out in great abundance, and the whitened fields stood ready for the harvest.
Numerous villages rose up, on the flourishing banks of the winding Kennebec, and its proud waters bore many a whitenedsail upon its surface.
Ere the smouldering logs had whitened to ashes, Gabrielle had forgotten her troubles, plunged in dreamless slumber.
If the whitened locks upon his pate had not been artificial, they would have stood up on end.
The bereaved parents turned a revealing look upon each other's whitened faces, and then slowly retired from the room, followed in affecting silence by the others.
And, there she stood, her arms folded under her mantle, her dark image seeming darker still as the moonlight whitened all the ground from which the image rose motionless.
In the next hour or two, while the flame of the lamp still burning on the table, whitened in the desolating morning light that crept into the room, David Richie did not reason things out consecutively.
Nannie had turned, and was standing with her hands behind her gripping the edge of the bureau; she gasped once or twice, and glanced first at one inquisitor and then at the other; her face whitened slowly.
Their faces were whitened more by powder than by emotion.
Often the breeze would sweep aside their veils of black silk, and show their powder-whitened faces.
In the centre of the semi-circle of tiny bead-eyed priests with whitened faces stood one of great age with flowing white beard that nearly swept the ground.
As the words left his lips we caught sight of a weird black figure dressed in long coarse grass, with rams' horns upon his head, his face whitened and a second pair of eyes painted over his own.
Then through a gate we came on to the moor, amongst whitened furze.
Then she whitened again and withdrew her hand; she seemed slightly confused.
He whitened and took the cigar from his mouth and wet his lips.
His gaze went on past her to the drawn hangings of the room to the right; and he seemed to appreciate their significance; for his face whitened under its tan, and an odd hush came suddenly upon him.
Old prints may be cleaned by this acid, for the paper will be whitened without injury to the impression, as printer’s ink is made of materials (oil and lamp black) which are not acted upon by acids.
Bees’ wax is naturally of a yellow colour, but it is bleached by long exposure to the atmosphere, or may be instantaneouslywhitened by the oxy-muriatic acid.
Instead of having merely whitened peaks, snow fields extend down the sides.
There they stand on the most barren and inaccessible places, rearing their gaunt and whitened forms erect as ever, and though lifeless yet not decayed.
A hoarse laugh seemed to issue from thewhitened object beside her, and she was drawn closer to it again.
For an hour they moved up and down, watching whirring belt and humming roller, and then, whitened with the dust, stood very intent and quiet while one of them dipped up a little flour from the delivery hopper.
Had Witham seen his unpleasant smile as he did it, he would probably have wheeled the black horse and returned at a gallop, but the farmer was sweeping across the waste of whitened grass at least a league away by this time.
Little long-tailed gophers whisked across the whitened sod, and when the great plough rolled through the shadows of a bluff, jack rabbits, pied white and grey, scurried amidst the rustling leaves.
It was about this time when, as the whitened horses floundered through the lee of a bluff where there was shelter from the wind, the men in the sleigh found opportunity for speech.
He had his niece and sister with him, and when he pulled up his team, all three were glad of the little breeze that came down from the blueness of the north and rippled the whitened grass.
The men who keep the peace of the prairie are taught what heat and thirst are, when they ride in couples through a desolate waste wherein there is only bitter water, parched by pitiless sunrays and whitened by the intolerable dust of alkali.
There, wooden homesteads girt about with barns and granaries rose from the whitened waste, and behind some of them stretched great belts of wheat.
The glare of the whitened houses reflects the brilliant sapphire of the sky, and becomes painful to the eyes; the city is in a plain, exposed to every ray of the Andalusian sun.
The fiery Andalusian sun gilds and colours the city, and the whitened houses cast a deep blue shade in the narrow streets.
Following them came the dust-whitened top of an Army ambulance, and several camp wagons, to the best of our figuring at that distance.
It is whitened with clay in large funnel-shaped vessels, open at the bottom, to allow the molasses to run off.
This cascarilla is formed by the trituration of egg-shells; and the oval faces whitened with it resemble a larger egg, with features drawn on it in black and red.
Set in brilliant jewels, in a resplendent gilded shrine, these whitened relics, which Bishop Reinald is believed to have discovered in the twelfth century, seemed to mock him in the very boldness of the pious fraud which they externalized.
It whitened the little lodges, nestling in the luxuriance of foliage, and glistened on the gaudy boats, lying motionless on the pearly bosom of the deep.
Every window on the square went up, and the neighborhood suddenly whitened with night-capped heads.
For half a moment he stood, with whitened lips; then stooped, took the face of the kneeling woman in his palms, and scanned it.
Some of these were falling in pieces, and the ground was strewn with whitened bones.
Una took Dan’s catapult from its secret place, and made ready to meet Lars Porsena’s army stealing through the wind-whitened aspens by the brook.
The water was hot to the hand, and the sky was hidden by hot, grey mists, out of which blew a fine dust that whitened our hair and beards of a morning.
That youthfully flushed and bright-eyed loveliness which always characterised the girl had whitened to ashes over night.
