Whitewashed

Examples

• They are very thick, and are often plastered and whitewashed and capped with projecting slabs of cut stone. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In front of him was one of the whitewashed stones that marked the edge of the road. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The walls were whitewashed as white as milk, and the patchwork counterpane made my eyes quite ache with its brightness. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• We took our last look at the city, clinging like a whitewashed wasp's nest to the hill-side, and at eight o'clock in the morning departed. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There was George Kitely, Lord Ragland's son, went through the Court last week, and was what they call whitewashed, I believe. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A metal roof reflects so much light that the eyes are dazzled by it, and a whitewashed fence injures the eyes because of the glare which comes from the reflected light. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• With dramatic suddenness he struck a match, and by its light exposed a stain of blood upon the whitewashed wall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Been whitewashed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You shall go to a place I have in the south of France: a whitewashed villa on the shores of the Mediterranean. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It is, sir, returned Mr. George, glancing up at the great letters in which that inscription was painted on the whitewashed wall. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The carpet prevents any possibility of a trap-door, and the ceiling is of the ordinary whitewashed kind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which the three bedrooms opened. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• LOT 1 was marked in whitewashed knock-knee letters on the brew house; LOT 2 on that part of the main building which had been so long shut up. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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