The approach of winter put an end to the whitewashing season, and left uncle Wellington dependent for support upon occasional jobs of unskilled labor.
This shading is usually supplied by whitewashing the glass, or a newspaper may be laid over the cutting bed for a few days.
The efficiency of this means of protecting the wall against the wear of weather is seen in the preservation of external whitewashing for several feet below such a cornice on the face of the walls.
But except this of whitewashing the scoundrel-population, one sees little "reform" going on.
By punishment, capital or other, by treadmilling and blind rigor, or by whitewashing and blind laxity, the extremely disagreeable offences of theft and murder must be kept down within limits.
Yes, my friends, scoundrel is scoundrel: that remains forever a fact; and there exists not in the earth whitewash that can make the scoundrel a friend of this Universe; he remains an enemy if you spent your life in whitewashing him.
The sentry was in a house whose thatched roof had been dignified by the whitewashing of the walls.
He even carried his brush and his beautifying into the farm-yard, and teased Anton into consenting to a general whitewashing of the mud walls.
Ruffles, and shirt-waists, and gingham aprons for a guild, and whitewashing the cellar!
And mother says you better clean the cellar right away, and she wondered if you’d feel equal to whitewashing it.
The whitewashingof Jevons had not been an easy matter.
I had done my best for them, and I could not share Viola's view that it was my business to go on whitewashing Jevons for ever.
The absent Duke entrusted to a certain learned doctor of Theology, Jean Petit, the duty of whitewashing his master--a task less formidable than it sounds to those unversed in the casuistry of the schools of that day.
The interior, which might easily be restored, has been spoiled by whitewashing the oak beams of ceilings that shelter many exhibits, of little interest, excepting some nice tiles from the old house.
Graham has been busy to-day whitewashing the kitchen, and looked so comical in one of Ellen's aprons and with a handkerchief tied over his head.
Graham was busy to-day whitewashing the front of the house; it was not easy work, as the stone is so rough.
This afternoon Graham has been whitewashing as we were anxious to leave the house in good order.
I returned to the few subscribers the money which I had scraped together towards whitewashing the moon,--"shrouding its guilty face with innocent white" indeed!
This made no allowance for whitewashingthe moon, which was not strictly necessary.
Meanwhile Eradicate went on whitewashing the fence, pausing every now and then to chuckle at the memory of Andy Foger.
He used to do odd jobs of whitewashing before he was regularly employed by Mr. Swift as a sort of gardener and watchman.
He repeats the account of whitewashing the bridges, and of the astonishment created among the good people of the neighborhood.
I remember that other scene, when a whitewashing message came from Franklin Pierce.
We have a message from the President which is like the whitewashing message of Franklin Pierce with regard to the enormities in Kansas.
When such a charge as that is brought in the Senate, I think it calls for some notice, and I take the liberty, with all my respect for the Senator from Massachusetts, to deny that there is anything in that report of a whitewashing character.
Speaking of the message just received from the President of the United States, he said that it was like the whitewashing message of Franklin Pierce, to cover up the transactions in Kansas.
Mr. Dixon, of Connecticut, said: “A charge has been directly made here by the Senator that the President has sent in a whitewashing report.
In another moment he was flying down the street with his pail and a tingling rear, Tom was whitewashing with vigor, and Aunt Polly was retiring from the field with a slipper in her hand and triumph in her eye.
Spotlessness, I know, is not a characteristic of our politics, though it is said that whitewashing is, which may account for this ceaseless paint-pot renovation of our public buildings.
Tom Sawyer's friends derived much pleasure from whitewashing the fence, and even paid for the privilege.
Had their parents set them to whitewashing fences they would have found it irksome work, and anything but play.
It is not the place forwhitewashing Richard III, or representing him as a man of erect and graceful figure.
And perhaps," he remarked at length, "perhaps Pir Baksh considered that such whitewashing would be of little avail if it could be shown that Tynan had been guilty of cowardice, and so the lad has to pose as a hero?
I don't believe he knows any more about whitewashing than I do about playing the harp.
Besides, Mrs. Bowser, whitewashing is not the slouch work you imagine it to be.
But this particular committee, surprisingly enough, handed in no such flaccid, whitewashing report.
