unwhitened
- a word derived from whiten.
Example Sentences
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That the sepulchre should be filled with dead men's bones might cause him pain, but that it should be unwhitened would be, to him, a thing far more terrible.
From The Wooden Horse by Walpole, Hugh, Sir
And darkness reigns where lamps once brightened; Shutters are closed, and blinds drawn down— Untrodden door-steps go unwhitened!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 12, 1841 by Various
The flagged floor, long uncleaned and unwhitened, was strewn with broken pipe-stems, half-burned pipe-lights, gnawed bones and dirty platters.
From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.
Mrs. Pine-Avon's black velvets and silks, with their white accompaniments, finely set off the exceeding fairness of her neck and shoulders, which, though unwhitened artificially, were without a speck or blemish of the least degree.
From The Well-Beloved by Hardy, Thomas
HURST, William Randolph, father of the American unwhitened newspapers.
From Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Gordon, Irwin Leslie
