Example Sentences

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With faces unblanched in our presence they come To harangue us, they say, in behalf of the dumb.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Several of the oldest seamen—men who had gone through scenes of suffering with tearless eyes and unblanched cheeks—now retired to the spirit room to conceal their emotion.

From The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Harte, Bret

It is her pride to see the hand, Which wont so wantonly to tear Her unblanched curls, control the band, And change the tune, with such an air.

From Ionica by Cory, William (AKA William Johnson)

Unflushed with ardour and unblanched with awe,   Her lips in profitless derision curled, She saw with dull emotion—if she saw—   The vision of the glory of the world.

From The Poems of William Watson by Watson, William

He is tottering on the verge between time and eternity; yet his is the only cheek unblanched, the only heart that keeps its usual time.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur