All 8 Uses of
whitewash
in
Bleak House
- Been whitewashed.†
Chpt 19-21
- Penetrating to the heart of this region, he arrives by a court and a long whitewashed passage at a great brick building composed of bare walls, floors, roof-rafters, and skylights, on the front of which, if it can be said to have any front, is painted GEORGE'S SHOOTING GALLERY, &c.†
Chpt 19-21
- "It is, sir," returned Mr. George, glancing up at the great letters in which that inscription was painted on the whitewashed wall.†
Chpt 22-24
- Mr. George is becoming thoughtful, sitting before the fire in the whitewashed room, which has a sanded floor and a barrack smell and contains nothing superfluous and has not a visible speck of dirt or dust in it, from the faces of Quebec and Malta to the bright tin pots and pannikins upon the dresser shelves—Mr. George is becoming thoughtful, sitting here while Mrs. Bagnet is busy, when Mr. Bagnet and young Woolwich opportunely come home.†
Chpt 25-27
- Whitewashing.†
Chpt 34-36 *
- Among my new friends was an old old woman who lived in such a little thatched and whitewashed dwelling that when the outside shutter was turned up on its hinges, it shut up the whole house-front.†
Chpt 34-36
- The place was last painted or whitewashed beyond the memory of man, and the two chimneys smoke, and there is a loose outer surface of soot everywhere, and the dull cracked windows in their heavy frames have but one piece of character in them, which is a determination to be always dirty and always shut unless coerced.†
Chpt 37-39
- "And that's the lad, sir, is it?" he inquires, looking along the entry to where Jo stands staring up at the great letters on the whitewashed front, which have no meaning in his eyes.†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(whitewash as in: investigative whitewash) cover up (a wrong or error)