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  • Whitewashing.†   (source)
  • The landlady's lively speech was received with greater favour at the Break of Day, than it would have elicited from certain amiable whitewashers of the class she so unreasonably objected to, nearer Great Britain.†   (source)
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  • They stood outside Frau Diller's, against the whitewashed wall.†   (source)
  • She even helped whitewash the school walls, holding up the lanterns so they could paint when the light went off in power cuts.†   (source)
  • Jeremy's eyes were a whitewashed blue and they seemed to weep when he spoke.†   (source)
  • Applying whitewash was lonely work—the old farmer had stopped appearing as soon as the last of the junk was out.†   (source)
  • On their first night there her brother had plucked the stiff horse hairs out of the freshly whitewashed walls and run his fingers along the toothmarks on top of the double Dutch door where the wood was soft and worn.†   (source)
  • We once talked about where Jesus speaks to these hypocrites, telling them that even though they look clean on the outside, it's just whitewash—they're just bones and stuff on the inside.†   (source)
  • Dundee Village, where Wes's new home was located, was a collection of connected, whitewashed homes.†   (source)
  • The faint smell of manure was everywhere, but the walls were whitewashed and the dirt floor swept clean.†   (source)
  • Yesterday, she hadn't known what patterns blood could make when it sprayed on a whitewashed wall.†   (source)
  • The pale, whitewashed arms were too long for the smaller proportions of my mother's figure; but I suppose that these overreaching arms had only enhanced Owen's memory of the affection my mother had felt for him.†   (source)
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  • Whitewashed cottages, quaint except for the satellite dishes sprouting from their roofs, lined a small grid of muddy gravel streets.†   (source)
  • The Western Market was a great square of beaten earth surrounded by warrens of mud-baked brick, animal pens, whitewashed drinking halls.†   (source)
  • Bill and Fleur's cottage stood alone on a cliff overlooking the sea, its walls embedded with shells and whitewashed.†   (source)
  • He'd assumed that the cussed army spirit which whitewashed rocks in the face of annihilation would prevail.†   (source)
  • These whitewashed cinder-block walls.†   (source)
  • The company room was being readied with fresh whitewash and new linen curtains.†   (source)
  • Dr. Neu didn't try to whitewash what had happened.†   (source)
  • It was my first time in Amsterdam; I'd seen almost nothing of the city and yet the room itself, in its bleak, drafty, sunscrubbed beauty, gave a keen sense of Northern Europe, a model of the Netherlands in miniature: whitewash and Protestant probity, co-mingled with deep-dyed luxury brought in merchant ships from the East.†   (source)
  • For ten bucks, you could graffiti your name on Tom Sawyer's whitewashed fence, but there were few takers.†   (source)
  • Eaves hung over the whitewashed walls, shadowing the ground below.†   (source)
  • The walls were whitewashed, like the walls in the upper stories of the house, and there were just as many doors.†   (source)
  • In a matter of a year or two, the murals I painted through the Bienvenidos Community Center were whitewashed; the backlash against them proved swift and extensive.†   (source)
  • As for his last name, Ganguli, by the time he is ten he has been to Calcutta three more times, twice in summer and once during Durga pujo, and from the most recent trip he still remembers the sight of it etched respectably into the whitewashed exterior of his paternal grandparents' house.†   (source)
  • Like many houses on Tinos, it was made of whitewashed stone, and the roof was flat, with diamond-shaped red tiles.†   (source)
  • Lena stood there shivering, dripping fake snow like whitewash.†   (source)
  • The walls were whitewashed.†   (source)
  • Some days he sells aspirins in the market, all dignified like Dr. Kildare, yet other days he'll turn up with his body painted top to bottom (and I do mean bottom) in some kind of whitewash.†   (source)
  • The area around the building was pretty rundown, a whitewashed wall with a fancy iron gate separating one sand-strewn empty lot from another.†   (source)
  • The first showed Zachary standing knee-deep in azure water on a beach dotted with whitewashed houses.†   (source)
  • Even when the wisteria tore the shutters oft the attic windows and worked its tendrils right into the whitewashed brick in less than a year ...Yes, we loved it.†   (source)
  • We fixed the roofs, whitewashed the house from top to bottom, and cleaned it inside and out until it sparkled.†   (source)
  • Alas, no answers magically appeared in the whitewashed space.†   (source)
  • Then Roger noticed that, although the pond looked lovely, there was a faint but definite odor of putridity hanging around it ...and the small house on the rock in the center of the pond was whitewashed not with paint but with gullshit.†   (source)
  • The plain whitewashed walls were rough and unadorned, and the only furniture was a prison cot, a night table with a candle in a bottle, an old wardrobe, and a washstand with its basin and bowl.†   (source)
  • He put money into fixing up the bathroom and the kitchen area, but instead of putting in a parquet floor and interior walls to make it into the planned two-room apartment, he sanded the floor-boards, whitewashed the rough walls, and hid the worst patches behind two watercolours by Emanuel Bernstone.†   (source)
  • In the distance I see the thatched-roof house with its whitewashed walls, pots of red geraniums blooming on the windowsill, Gram's sturdy black bike propped inside the gate, near the hedge where blackberries and sloe fruit hang in dense blue clusters.†   (source)
  • After we passed through Caretta, we reached a fork in the road at a little place called Premier, where there was an old run-down whitewashed brick building called the Spaghetti House.†   (source)
  • I walk up the hill to school, noting the whitewashed stones that line the driveways of newer homes.†   (source)
  • From it you could look down the valley, across the tops of cottonwood trees, to the ranch house half a mile away, surrounded by whitewashed barns, stables and corrals.†   (source)
  • We cruise past block after block of humble little houses, whitewashed and stucco, built decades ago, with pickup trucks in the driveways and children's toys on the lawns.†   (source)
  • Just past one bad curve, a small shrine has been erected, La Virgen surrounded by three concrete crosses recently whitewashed.†   (source)
  • It's a white-walled, whitewashed, and totally white old folks' home.†   (source)
  • Two hundred yards farther on, they came to the Yambuku Mission Hospital, a complex of low, whitewashed buildings made of concrete, with corrugated tin roofs.†   (source)
  • A nice hotel, with whitewashed walls and pillars in the front entrance.†   (source)
  • THE WOMEN'S CLINIC behind the main hospital building deviated from the whitewashed decor of Missing, because it had lime-green paint on the outer walls and blue banisters.†   (source)
  • Its whitewash had faded, and its plaster had dropped off in chunks, revealing the lumpy stone walls underneath.†   (source)
  • The trees in the alameda had been freshly whitewashed and the upper trunks were lost in the dark above the light of the few lamps yet burning so that they looked like plaster stagetrees new from the mold.†   (source)
  • All those spindles reeling and wheeling and shuttles jumping around and bobbins wringing the air with string, whitewashed walls and steel-gray machines and girls in flowered skirts skipping back and forth, and the whole thing webbed with flowing white lines stringing the factory together-it all stuck with me and every once in a while something on the ward calls it to mind.†   (source)
  • With low-slung oak trees and the whitewashed trunks of cypress trees lining the banks, the view was soothing, ageless in beauty.†   (source)
  • She entered a hall with dirty whitewashed walls, climbed a flight of worn stone stairs with iron banisters, and turned to the left.†   (source)
  • The locker was whitewashed and smelled of carbolic acid.†   (source)
  • Farmer's escorts shepherded him into an office—a whitewashed ceiling, concrete walls, a team of doctors, and a little girl in a dress.†   (source)
  • There was a whole, new, fascinating culture to this big whitewashed building.†   (source)
  • The monotony of the dirty whitewashed walls of the room was broken only by two small windows with iron bars on them, and by a single picture of a man, a Kurd with high cheekbones, wearing a fuzzy Russian-style hat.†   (source)
  • I looked at the sad leaning cocoanut palms, the fishing boats drawn up on the shingly beach, the uneven row of whitewashed huts, and asked the name of the village.†   (source)
  • Yet the great whitewashed stone building, the largest house in America—as large as the half of the Capitol that had been erected—was truly a grand edifice, noble even in its present state.†   (source)
  • One could whitewash all he pleased, and put up comic neon signs, but the aged timbers stood strong under their additional burden.†   (source)
  • The men turned into a neat whitewashed home and climbed a ladder of carved logs toward the smell of cooking chicken.†   (source)
  • But the pain of her loss had been whitewashed by his love for Chelise.†   (source)
  • There were easy sun-washed days and purple dusks in which Tar Baby sang "Abide With Me" at prayer meetings, his lashes darkened by tears, his silhouette limp with regret against the whitewashed walls of Greater Saint Matthew's.†   (source)
  • And I stand in the circle where three roads converge near the statue, where we drilled four-abreast down the smooth asphalt and pivoted and entered the chapel on Sundays, our uniforms pressed, shoes shined, minds laced up, eyes blind like those of robots to visitors and officials on the low, whitewashed reviewing stand.†   (source)
  • Except for an isolated intrusion of an unkempt stoop or an ill-conceived whitewashed facade, they could be identical blocks.†   (source)
  • To him, there was something surrealistic about the scene: a dozen men in a long, whitewashed room in Topeka, rebuilding a crash.†   (source)
  • At the end of the road we came to an isolated, whitewashed one-story cottage set behind a concrete wall and shaded by tall fir trees.†   (source)
  • The stuccoed walls need patching, the whitewash is faded to near gray, and there's weeds growing in the broken roof tiles.†   (source)
  • Hugo and Felicia stripped in their room, dissolving easily into one another, and made love against the whitewashed walls.†   (source)
  • Alessandro labored up long flights of whitewashed stairs, to an open window that gave out on the town and the sea.†   (source)
  • I noticed a peeling sticker on the whitewashed porch door.†   (source)
  • It whitewashed life in order to please the money tycoons whom it served.†   (source)
  • Boats and tugs and sailing ships, whitewashed buildings close in against the water, the smell of fish, the salt smell.†   (source)
  • The walls were whitewashed.†   (source)
  • * ** The inside of the old hospital had been carefully whitewashed, lending an eerie glow to each of the surfaces.†   (source)
  • Their yards were small and well kept, landscaped with sprays of chipped bark and whitewashed trellises of huge yellow and pink roses.†   (source)
  • The students went around for days transcribing them into their notebooks before they were covered with whitewash and lye.†   (source)
  • He touched a whitewashed wall as he went through a doorway, and rubbed the powdery clay between his fingers.†   (source)
  • At two o'clock in the morning, at a handsome whitewashed farm three hundred yards off the main road, they finally come to a halt.†   (source)
  • I done marked the walls in that mine with whitewash in ten-foot parcels over four hunnerd feet in.†   (source)
  • Sam and David's was tiny, with its specials listed in whitewash on the steamy front window.†   (source)
  • They formed a little colony of their own, living midway between the town and open country in brick cottages with whitewashed walls and red-tiled roofs.†   (source)
  • It was sparsely furnished, more office than home, and upon its whitewashed walls hung several outsize black-and-white photographs of Palestinian suffering—the long dusty walk into exile, the wretched camps, the weathered faces of the old ones dreaming of paradise lost.†   (source)
  • Maybe that corner of the house was the original cabin, with a stone foundation, and then they added that wing onto it bigger than the log house, so the cabin no doubt got turned into a kitchen, and then another wing across the front of the cabin, only this time two stories high, with an attic, and then an add-on in the back of the cabin, right across the roof of it, keeping the gable shape and framing it with shaped timbers, which were whitewashed clean enough once, but now were peeling off the paint and showing grey wood through.†   (source)
  • I'm doing all I can to whitewash you.†   (source)
  • No furniture, just whitewashed wails, quite close all around, and the gray steel door, a smart charcoal gray, the color you see on clever London houses.†   (source)
  • She thought of a hotel room in Mazatlan whose door had just been slammed, it seemed forever, waking up two hundred birds down in the lobby; a sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west; a dry, disconsolate tune from the fourth movement of the Bartok Concerto for Orchestra; a whitewashed bust of Jay Gould that Pierce kept over the bed on a shelf so narrow for it she'd always had the hovering fear it would someday topple on them.†   (source)
  • On the hill across the valley, spelled out in whitewashed stones, were the huge words, "Welcome Home, Dessie.†   (source)
  • The room was whitewashed with aseptic brightness, like that of a laboratory; it was dirt-free, spare, austere.†   (source)
  • When Luke was scraping the cow manure off, Nick had leaned back on the whitewashed stone cowbarn wall and had laughed till he could hardly see.†   (source)
  • The thin whitewashed wall (thinner than the wall of the slave stockade on the beach) protected her so little.†   (source)
  • I don't want other people's things, so I put it all into these two rooms and whitewashed the windows to keep out the sun.†   (source)
  • Under hanging moss it showed a half-circle of whitewashed cabins, dark, and all along it a fence of pale palings.†   (source)
  • Where the rain had run through the joins in the roof, the whitewash was discolored and the mud cracked.†   (source)
  • The walls were freshly whitewashed and the floor polished.†   (source)
  • They whitewash the plaster walls of the vaults, clean the names cut into the marble slabs.†   (source)
  • He also swept the floors, whitewashed the walls and cleaned the bathrooms.†   (source)
  • They had not been whitewashed and were black with soot.†   (source)
  • Each man had a shotgun propped against the whitewashed wall beside him.†   (source)
  • He pauses at the doors to a series of whitewashed rooms with nothing but ladders in them.†   (source)
  • If there was time to whitewash rocks, there must be time to organize that.†   (source)
  • Whitewashed brick, black lacquer shutters, gaslight, and ivy.†   (source)
  • Burnham nicknamed Millet and his paint crews "the Whitewash Gang."†   (source)
  • For The Grave, The Voice titled his column "WHITEWASH."†   (source)
  • Frank Millet's "Whitewash Gang" worked furiously to paint the buildings of the Court of Honor.†   (source)
  • The whitewashed stone archway was gone; so was the notion of whitewash.†   (source)
  • The whitewashed stone archway was gone; so was the notion of whitewash.†   (source)
  • Dr. Rudolph cleaned up in a whitewashed outdoor shower behind the house.†   (source)
  • The houses were hopelessly plain, not a trace of whitewash.†   (source)
  • The whitewashed buildings have quaint, fading signs, and stand empty.†   (source)
  • Whitewashed stucco walls lined with balconies rose three stories high.†   (source)
  • The room smelled like the white clay the people used for whitewash.†   (source)
  • The whitewash that covered them was cracked and peeling, but Brienne knew their meaning.†   (source)
  • The lower story was grey stone, the upper whitewashed wood, the roof slate.†   (source)
  • The house was clean and neat, open and whitewashed.†   (source)
  • I look around at the pile of rough-cut wood, the wide whitewashed planks of the porch walls.†   (source)
  • She leaned against the whitewashed block wall and felt its soothing cool on her back.†   (source)
  • THE GUARDS of the Hofburg took Alessandro to a whitewashed underground room with a vaulted ceiling.†   (source)
  • The houses were built of whitewashed stone, with steeply pitched roofs of dark grey slate.†   (source)
  • My feet brushed against the whitewashed walls on either side.†   (source)
  • The Americans went to these, brushing away flakes of whitewash before they sat down.†   (source)
  • The small whitewashed cottage was once again in use, with my son now assisting Kenny.†   (source)
  • Two gas lamps illuminated everything under the whitewashed ceiling.†   (source)
  • The room was round, its walls of whitewashed stone hung with white woolen tapestries.†   (source)
  • Hilda drew red-chalk wickets on the whitewashed walls and bowled to him with a tennis ball.†   (source)
  • Then she ran up the polished whitewashed stairs and disappeared inside.†   (source)
  • Our whitewashed chikka walls—packed mud and straw—offered little protection.†   (source)
  • On the east side of the market square stood a modest inn with whitewashed walls and broken windows.†   (source)
  • We crossed a highway and there a light burned in a whitewashed tree.†   (source)
  • She would whitewash them all, herself, to save money.†   (source)
  • He painted the old house white and whitewashed the sheds.†   (source)
  • WOUNDS OF THEPRESENT When dawn arrived, Roran woke and lay staring at the whitewashed ceiling while he listened to the slow rasp of his own breathing.†   (source)
  • Ursula had the bills taken down, stuck to great cakes of whitewash, and the house was painted white again.†   (source)
  • She went back to eating earth and the whitewash on the walls with the avidity of previous days, and she sucked her finger with so much anxiety that she developed a callus on her thumb.†   (source)
  • Thalia launches energetically into a story about a new set of whitewashed bungalows that developers are building south of Tinos town, with views of Mykonos and the Aegean.†   (source)
  • Along the rough cobbled streets that had served so well in surprise attacks and buccaneer landings, weeds hung from the balconies and opened cracks in the whitewashed walls of even the best-kept mansions, and the only signs of life at two o'clock in the afternoon were languid piano exercises played in the dim light of siesta.†   (source)
  • Inside, it was to be whitewashed.†   (source)
  • The thick plastered pillars and walls of the house had been freshly whitewashed, the floorboards freshly swept, and a summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water.†   (source)
  • He would hear nothing of three courtyards, corridors, rusty fountains, dark rooms, walls of whitewashed adobe, or dusty tiles on the roof; he wanted two or three heroic floors, rows of white columns, and a majestic staircase that would make a half-turn on itself and wind up in a hall of white marble, enormous, well-lit windows, and the overall appearance of order and peace, beauty and civilization, that was typical of foreign peoples and would be in tune with his new life.†   (source)
  • Turner and the corporals crossed the bridge and passed the whitewashed rocks, a reminder of training camp and all the bull.†   (source)
  • —Richard Adams, Watership Down Two narrow metal bunks, one above the other against a whitewashed wall, a cupboard, a table by the window, a chair, an empty shelf with nothing but a candle on it.†   (source)
  • He was not pained by the peeling of the whitewash on the walls or the dirty, cottony cobwebs in the corners or the dust on the begonias or the veins left on the beams by the termites or the moss on the hinges or any of the insidious traps that nostalgia offered him.†   (source)
  • I was a rather nasty cocktail of both those traits, but at the fertility center, I dutifully entered the strange small room dedicated to self-abuse: a place where hundreds of men had entered for no other purpose than to crank the shank, clean the rifle, jerk the gherkin, make the bald man cry, pound the flounder, sail the mayonnaise seas, wiggle the walrus, whitewash with Tom and Huck.†   (source)
  • The old French city had been for the most part burned a long time ago, and the architecture of these days was as it is now, Spanish, which meant that, as we walked slowly through the very narrow street where one cabriolet had to stop for another, we passed whitewashed walls and great courtyard gates that revealed distant lamplit courtyard paradises like our own, only each seemed to hold such promise, such sensual mystery.†   (source)
  • Someone told him that it did not belong to anyone, that in former times a solitary widow who fed on earth and whitewash from the walls had lived there, and that in her last years she was seen only twice on the street with a hat of tiny artificial flowers and shoes the color of old silver when she crossed the square to the post office to mail a letter to the Bishop.†   (source)
  • The house where the nuns lived was completely dark, and then the sun rose—a pink sliver of light lay flat upon the playground; and the newly whitewashed stone archway that sheltered the statue of the sainted Mary Magdalene reflected the pink light brightly back to me.†   (source)
  • No one understood why she had not died of hunger until the Indians, who were aware of everything, for they went ceaselessly about the house on their stealthy feet, discovered that Rebeca only liked to eat the damp earth of the courtyard and the cake of whitewash that she picked of the walls with her nails.†   (source)
  • For although the playground reflected an obdurate disrepair, the statue itself was whitewashed every spring, and even on the dullest, grayest days— despite being dotted here and there with birdshit and occasional stains of human desecration—Mary Magdalene attracted and reflected more light than any other object or human presence at St. Michael's.†   (source)
  • She would put handfuls of earth in her pockets, and ate them in small bits without being seen, with a confused feeling of pleasure and rage, as she instructed her girl friends in the most difficult needlepoint and spoke about other men, who did not deserve the sacrifice of having one eat the whitewash on the walls because of them.†   (source)
  • The house was opened, still smelling of resin and damp whitewash, and the children and grandchildren of the founders saw the porch with ferns and begonias, the quiet rooms, the garden saturated with the fragrance of the roses, and they gathered together in the parlor, facing the unknown invention that had been covered with a white sheet.†   (source)
  • Rebeca would open it wide at dawn and the wind from the graveyard would come in through the windows and go out through the doors to the yard and leave the whitewashed walls and furniture tanned by the saltpeter of the dead.†   (source)
  • She took charge of a crew of carpenters, locksmiths, and masons, who filled in the cracks in the floor, put doors and windows back on their hinges, repaired the furniture, and whitewashed the walls inside and out, so that three months after her arrival one breathed once more the atmosphere of youth and festivity that had existed during the days of the pianola.†   (source)
  • Narbert led them along a pebbled path and through a grove of apple trees to a whitewashed stable with a peaked thatch roof.†   (source)
  • The curtained whitewashed room of the warehouse, lined with locked, horizontal display cases, was not unlike a museum displaying such artifacts from past civilizations as primitive tools, fossilized insects, mystic carvings of religions past.†   (source)
  • White Harbor's walls of whitewashed stone rose before them, on the eastern shore where the White Knife plunged into the firth.†   (source)
  • It did not look like an outlaws' lair, she had to admit; it looked friendly, even homey, with its whitewashed upper story and slate roof and the smoke curling up lazy from its chimney.†   (source)
  • In every direction, there were boats and Jet Skis zipping past, leaving whitewashed curls of water behind them.†   (source)
  • Away from the curtain wall, the buildings changed to houses and shops: tall, crossbeamed, with whitewashed walls and wrought-iron fixtures upon the doors.†   (source)
  • He was not requesting that I cover for him or whitewash the situation in any way; rather, he was simply reminding me of one of my usual duties, as though not wanting me to be remiss.†   (source)
  • Another booming explosion filled the air, and the magus turned back to the window but could see only a glare reflecting on the whitewashed walls of the buildings below.†   (source)
  • All the banned words, the secrets kept in whitewashed vaults, the half-forgotten plots—they're all out here now, seeping invisibly into the land and air, into the marrowed folds of the bone.†   (source)
  • The ghost led Nico to another public plaza, anchored at one end by a large square church with whitewashed walls and limestone arches.†   (source)
  • The front windows were whitewashed, and large signs painted over them declared GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS on one side of the door and TOTAL NUDITY on the other.†   (source)
  • The buildings were freshly whitewashed, laid out in neat grids like the camp had been designed by a fussy math teacher.†   (source)
  • They painted their parents' houses atrocious colors; they whitewashed Maycomb's stores and put up neon signs; they built red brick houses of their own in what were formerly corn patches and pine thickets; they ruined the old town's looks.†   (source)
  • There is too much buffer of fine landscaping and natural vegetation, of whitewashed horse fence and antiqued stone walls, that it's rare to see anyone outside, much less two people on the perimeter of a property, talking or socializing.†   (source)
  • Harding began flirting with all the student nurses, and Billy Bibbit completely quit writing what he used to call his "observations" in the log book, and when the window in front of her desk got replaced again, with a big X across it in whitewash to make sure McMurphy didn't have any excuse for not knowing it was there, Scanlon did it in by accidentally bouncing our basketball through it before the whitewashed X was even dry.†   (source)
  • Above the decorous walking around me, sounds of footsteps leaving the verandas of far-flung buildings and moving toward the walks and over the walks to the asphalt drives lined with whitewashed stones, those cryptic messages for men and women, boys and girls heading quietly toward where the visitors waited, and we moving not in the mood of worship but of judgment; as though even here in the filtering dusk, here beneath the deep indigo sky, here, alive with looping swifts and darting moths, here in the hereness of the night not ye†   (source)
  • She knew why they couldn't take him to a mundane hospital, but it had been hard, beyond hard, to leave him there in the whitewashed room that served as their infirmary.†   (source)
  • They stopped in front of Changazi's neatly whitewashed compound, and Mortenson knocked on a substantial set of green wooden doors.†   (source)
  • They painted in sheds, whitewashed studios and renovated potato barns and she went mostly alone, borrowing Esther's car because Esther was on the phone trying to deal with landlords and lawyers.†   (source)
  • An ample chamber, measuring forty by forty feet, it was notably devoid of decoration, "neat but not elegant," with whitewashed walls and flooded with daylight from high windows on both the north and south sides.†   (source)
  • Over her breakfast coffee, she watched the last of Georgia's hills recede and the red earth appear, and with it tin-roofed houses set in the middle of swept yards, and in the yards the inevitable verbena grew, surrounded by whitewashed tires.†   (source)
  • The whitewash was only partially completed, and the kiva murals were veiled under the white clay wash, not yet repainted for the winter ceremonies.†   (source)
  • They'd already scouted the modern city, which, strangely, reminded Piper of Albuquerque—a bunch of low, boxy, whitewashed buildings sprawled across a plain at the foot of some purplish mountains.†   (source)
  • The hospital was a collection of corrugated tin roofs and whitewashed concrete walls sitting beside a church in the forest, where bells rang and you heard a sound of hymns and the words of the high mass spoken in Bantu.†   (source)
  • Prudently we took his advice to follow closely, although he went at a pace which we found difficult to match, and presently he brought us to a small whitewashed house set in a street on the corner of which stood a church.†   (source)
  • Harding began flirting with all the student nurses, and Billy Bibbit completely quit writing what he used to call his "observations" in the log book, and when the window in front of her desk got replaced again, with a big X across it in whitewash to make sure McMurphy didn't have any excuse for not knowing it was there, Scanlon did it in by accidentally bouncing our basketball through it before the whitewashed X was even dry.†   (source)
  • Then it struck me as ludicrous that at this late stage I should walk with caution, and I went therefore to the whitewashed cottage on the fringes of the town, expectant, carrying a garland of roses and jasmine to welcome him, and a lime for good luck.†   (source)
  • He sat on the bed with his back against the whitewashed wall and watched tiny crystals in the gypsum plaster as they glittered in the stream of sun from the window.†   (source)
  • The narrow street outside which rarely saw a car was now a noisy thoroughfare, and the compound wall showed no trace of whitewash but instead was the color of the earth on which it stood.†   (source)
  • Missing sat on a verdant rise, the irregular cluster of whitewashed one —and two-story buildings looking as if they were pushed up from the ground in the same geologic rumble that created the Entoto Mountains.†   (source)
  • Now, although the frost had filmed them at the edges, it was clear that the glass was transparent; the whitewash had evidently been removed.†   (source)
  • As for the towers, they're strange, multistaged buildings wound around with steep outside stairways, and they rise terrifyingly above the whitewashed temples.†   (source)
  • All the hate she had left in her when she was old went out to a little four-posted whitewashed building, the post office.†   (source)
  • The old thick walls sucked in coat after coat of whitewash made with lime in salt water, which, as it dried, seemed to have a luminosity of its own.†   (source)
  • She could see a tender gold light on the trees through the window, and faint rosy patches of sun lay on the white walls, showing up the rough grain of the whitewash.†   (source)
  • She stopped for a moment beside one of the prickly dark shrubs with which the city had beautified the Home, and then proceeded slowly toward the building, which was of whitewashed brick and reflected the winter sunlight like a block of ice.†   (source)
  • But Mary was stiff with resentment, because she had noticed Mrs. Slatter looking keenly round the room, pricing every cushion, noticing the new whitewash and the curtains.†   (source)
  • And chickens—I'm going to raise millions of them—little houses all over the ranch and a ring on the roof to dip them in a whitewash tank.†   (source)
  • They came to a tiny farm down here, the last one possible before the muck sucked it in-a patch of cotton in flower, a house whitewashed in front, a cleanswept yard with a little iron pump standing in the middle of it like a black rooster.†   (source)
  • His little whitewashed basement room was as spotless as a barracks room.†   (source)
  • The walls were whitewashed and the big red-painted furnace was a comforting thing.†   (source)
  • Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted.†   (source)
  • It was a large, bare room, made luminous by the clean glow of whitewash.†   (source)
  • In front of him was one of the whitewashed stones that marked the edge of the road.†   (source)
  • It was a bright, spotlessly clean room, with whitewashed walls and a big skylight.†   (source)
  • Here under his feet would rise a house of whitewashed brick.†   (source)
  • The light on the whitewashed walls was changing from pink to yellow.†   (source)
  • Over the courtyard the whitewash became visible upon the opposite wall.†   (source)
  • He and the vultures looked down together on the little whitewashed courtyard.†   (source)
  • The boy strangled a yawn against the whitewashed wall.†   (source)
  • There was a large nail in the whitewashed wall where a mirror perhaps had been hung or a picture.†   (source)
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