"Blanched" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had a card on which were several white mice. These were made of blanched almonds, fastened to the card by stitches of thread, which looked like ...
— Marjorie's Busy Days • Carolyn Wells
... on his face, her own slowly whitening until it was blanched, Mollie stood and gazed and gazed. Hugh Ingelow looked curiously from ...
— The Unseen Bridgegroom - or, Wedded For a Week • May Agnes Fleming
... won't easily forget. He was running the Queen, and going over empty, having smuggled aboard a staff officer who had missed the other vessel. It was darkening, and the Queen was about four miles off the British coast when this skipper saw dark hulls, blanched lines, and flaming funnels—all showing terrific speed. First, he took the strange craft to be new French destroyers; but they hailed him in English, and, of course, for an instant he thought then they were British warships, when suddenly ...
— Some Naval Yarns • Mordaunt Hall
... the scoundrels the leader of the posse shouted, "Throw up your hands or I'll blow your heads off!" With blanched faces and trembling forms they obeyed the order and begged for mercy. They were searched, and as their pockets were emptied of their ghastly finds the indignation of the crowd intensified, and when a bloody finger of an infant, encircled with two tiny gold rings, was found among the ...
— The Johnstown Horror • James Herbert Walker
... Then blanched her face to whiteness of the lilies on her gown, And low she bowed as lilies bow in drift of wind and rain; "My Lord," she said, "I have no will except to lay it down At thy desire. As I have done, so ...
— The Miracle and Other Poems • Virna Sheard
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