The aurora borealis announces itself first by pale, whitishjets of flame which slowly lick the surface of the sky; but soon the scene grows more animated, the colors deepen, and the light grows larger, forming an arch around an opaque cloud.
They are washed outside with a whitish wash which resists the action of the weather; the mode of its preparation is said to be known only to the Pueblos.
In either case, the substance, when thus subjected to the nicer process of manufacture, presents that well-known whitish brown color so often and so enthusiastically celebrated by the elder English poets in the aspect of “flaxen locks.
From the summit to the base this part of the edifice is composed of large blocks of whitish granite, arranged in regular strata, and carefully dove-tailed into one another.
On returning, the last ring of the body was open, and the sexual organs full of the whitish substance already mentioned.
Favoured by chance, the observer one day perceived at the bottom of cells containing eggs, a whitish fluid, apparently spermatic, at least, very different from the substance or jelly which bees commonly collect around their new hatched worms.
Though much could be expressed, there was none pure; it was almost liquid, but soon coagulated, and formed a whitish inorganic mass.
Then they are of a whitish colour, weak, and their organs infirm.
Stooping and separating the dry grass, we exposed the four whitish eggs of the white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys).
Our appearance startled from their island home three little birds, whose whitishdown was covered with irregular dusky spots.
In its stead they delight in drinking the whitish stuff produced by the rice when it has been boiled in water, or as an alternative, infusions of ginsang.
The whitish water left behind after the rice has been removed is, as we have seen, used as a cooling beverage.
The yellowish skin on such occasions generally assumes a cadaverouswhitish green colour which is pitiful to behold.
Their physiognomy reminds one of an owl, or tiger-cat: the face is round and encircled by a ruff of whitish fur.
It is a moderate-sized species, clothed with long brown hair, and having hands of a whitish hue.
A neat cup of grasses and vegetable fibres, lined with black rootlets or horsehair; located in low shrubs or bushes from one to two feet above ground; eggs whitish with blackish-brown specks about the large end (.
Crown and sides of head bluish slate; lores, eye-ring and underparts white; back and flanks greenish yellow; two whitish wing bars.
No reddish brown in the plumage; crown largely black, with a whitish stripe in centre.
Crown and underparts yellow; a narrow black line through the eyes; two broad whitish wing bars.
The four or five eggs are whitish profusely spotted with brown (.
Of grasses in weedy fields or pastures; four or five whitisheggs marked and blotched with brownish (.
Their four to six eggs are dull whitish clouded with brownish, the marking not being as distinct as in those of the last species (.
A frail structure of grasses and weeds, lined with finer grasses; placed either on the ground or in bushes, briars or weed patches; four or five whitish eggs marked with reddish brown (.
In thickets or clumps of briars, either on the ground or just above it; made of strips of bark and skeletons of leaves lined with hair; eggs whitish sparingly specked at the large end with brown (.
Upper parts stone color, specked with black; rump brownish; underparts whitish with indistinct streaks on the throat.
Upper parts greenish; throat, breast and line over eye yellow; two prominent whitish wing bars.
They raise three or four broods a year and in all seasons; five to seven whitish eggs scratched with black.
Of plant fibres and grasses in forks of bushes or trees, usually at greater heights than those of the Yellow Warbler; eggs whitish specked with brown.
Yet it was a very little one, a rod or two of clear shining ice that ran into deep blue and gray sludge under a drift of coarse, whitish granules, and very high up, fine dry particles of snow like powdered glass.
It contains many small whitish kernels, which as well as the branches are very bitter, and full of a resinous substance.
Those from Tanaserim are chiefly freighted with rice and Nipar wine, which is very strong, and as colourless as rock water, with a somewhatwhitish tinge, and very hot in taste, like aqua vitae.
These animals have two pigments in their chromatophores, a brown pigment and a whitish or yellow pigment; the former is much more plentiful than the latter.
A whitish cloud appeared below his machine and blotted it out for an instant.
Again the whitish cloud was left behind it, clearly defined in the searchlight rays.
Another second and he would have run into the whitish cloud.
As the first of the lights struck the fringe of the whitishcloud it flared up.
The Jays look very much like their relatives the Canada Jays, but are darker, and when you are close to them the feathers of their backs show distinct whitish shaft-streaks.
Some alight again, all in their yellow traveling suits, with the exception of one who has a little song for us and wears a somewhat mottled garb with whitish rump.
Young: No black; throat whitish and brown on breast; very stealthy; skulks and crouches in grass.
The ground, which was everywhere seen between the high grass, was an indurated whitish clay, on which the plants, of which we collected several, grew only in single spots.
In thewhitish strata of clay-slate between the clay are here and there apertures, arched above in the form of the gates or windows of knights' castles.
He had cut off his hair, and besmeared it, as well as his feet and legs, with whitish clay.
If, instead, it is whitish and full of liquid, it must be seized with a hook, and by means of a fine scalpel extirpated.
At all times the animal is of a whitish appearance on the throat and belly and insides of the legs.
We were soon reassured, however, by seeing the upright form of the trapper as he walked deliberately back towards the camp-fire, and the blaze revealed to us a large whitish object dangling by his side and partly dragging along the ground.
Lower down I can see the lilac flowers of a self-heal, and the bottom of the little gorge is clothed with a bush like a hazel, only with large, soft whitish flowers.
It appears to consist, in many cases, of several layers of a whitish membrane, and generally breaks into fibres.
The edible part is of a whitish hue, harder and drier than that of the two species already described; and its flavor its quite as agreeable.
The female lays three or four whitish eggs, which are hatched in February and March.
The female lays three or four eggs, which are whitish brown and speckled, and are hatched in the same months as the eggs of the Turkey vulture.
Are specimens of a whitish clay or kaolin, of which a solution is made and applied to the outer surfaces of earthenware.
Subsequently, numerous mottled patches, or round spots of a whitish hue, scatter themselves over the outer part of this circle.
They have Holes in the Sand-Beaches and are a whitishsort of a Crab.
These are a whitish Fowl, about the Bigness of a Brant; they come to us after Christmas, in very great Flocks, in all our Rivers.
A whitish cherty limestone, with nodules of bluish argillaceous limestone.
A stratum, eighty feet thick, of hard and very compact impure whitish limestone, weathering bright red, with included layers brecciated and re- cemented.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whitish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cream; creamy; eggshell; fair; glaucous; ivory; light; pale; pastel; pearl; pearly
