The blossoming of fruit trees in the Santa Clara valley, California, whitens the surface for miles.
Lime whitens a moss, that is true, but so does snow.
The grey mercurial precipitate which whitens Gold, and in which little globules of running Mercury are perceivable, is far from being pure Mercury.
It whitens them by its union, and destroys their malleability.
But I love Muléykeh's face: her forefront whitens indeed Like a yellowish wave's cream-crest.
There, by night the cotton whitens beneath the stars, and by day the wheat locks the sunshine in its bearded sheaf.
Sulphuretted hydrogen passed through prussian blue diffused in water, whitens it; while prussic acid is eliminated, sulphur is thrown down, and the sesquicyanide of iron is converted into the single cyanide.
Even the powder of cinnabar rubbed on copper whitens it.
Hence we may understand how each successive fusion of dark gray iron hardens and whitens it, though in contact with coke, by completing that chemical dissolution of the carbon on which the white state depends.
As a beverage, no doubt, it whitens the complexion more than any other food.
It forms a paste which softens and whitens the skin better than any soap.
Your eyes shall witness and confirm my tale, Our youth how dexterous, and how fleet our sail, When justly timed with equal sweep they row, And ocean whitens in long tracks below.
They are pale, but it is not fear that whitens On each proud high brow; For the triumph of the martyr's glory brightens Around them even now.
Indians believed, what is an obvious fact, that when this bush whitens the swampy river banks, shad are swimming up the stream from the sea to spawn.
Rooted in clefts of rock that, therefore, appears to be broken by this vigorous plant, the saxifrage shows rosettes of fresh green leaves in earliest spring, and soon whitens with its blossoms the most forbidding niches.
The torrent is lost to sight under the cornices and boils in the caverns; at every step it whitens with foam the smooth stone.
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