Blanched

Examples

• She drifted forward as if scarcely conscious, her long blanched face lifted up, not to see the world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Stay,' said he, his eye catching on Margaret's face, blanched with watching in a sick room, 'I'm not sure whether I can go; I've a long round to take. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Finally the pin was straightened and blanched or whitened. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Here was the secret of her blanched face, her shaken nerves, her peals of hysterical laughter on the next morning. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I leaned against a gate, and looked into an empty field where no sheep were feeding, where the short grass was nipped and blanched. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Justinian gave a cry of alarm, and his face blanched white under its bronze. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Blanched face, sunken eyes, hollow cheeks, beard of three days' growth, wasted flesh, short thick breath; it was the very ghost of Sikes. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Well might she put the question: his face was blanched as her gown. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Jane blanched. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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