An evening star shining over a dark pine tree is the whitest thing in the universe--because it is LIVING whiteness--whiteness possessing a soul. How full this old orchard is of twilight! Do you know, I have been trysting here with ghosts."
"The Family Ghost?" I asked, very stupidly. "No, not the Family Ghost. I never saw beautiful, broken-hearted Emily yet. Your mother saw her once, Sara--that was a strange thing," he added absently, as if to himself. "Did mother really see her?" whispered the Story Girl. "Well, she always believed she did.英文原著 · 《The Golden Road》
Hope nor fear can avail to stay
Waves that whiten on wrecks that wallow,
Times and seasons that wane and slay.英文原著 · 《A Century of Roundels》
DAY was whitening on the Stetson shore. Across the river the air was still sharp with the chill of dawn, and the mists lay like flocks of sheep under shelter of rock and crag. A peculiar cry radiated from the Lewallen cabin with singular resonance on the crisp air-the mountain cry for straying cattle. A soft low came from a distant patch of laurel, and old Jasper's girl, Martha, folded. her hands like a conch at her mouth, and the shrill cry again startled the air.英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
This cloud, however, being it seemed dispelled, the star had shone but more brilliant in its high place, and she the more passionately worshipped it. To sit apart and see her idol's radiance, to mark her as she reigned and seemed the more royal when she bent the knee to royalty itself, to see the shimmer of her jewels crowning her midnight hair and crashing the warm whiteness of her noble neck, to observe the admiration in all eyes as they dwelt upon her--this was, indeed, enough of happiness.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
But he did not answer, or even stir, though she bent close to him and thrust her hand within his breast. And then the frightened guests beheld a strange but beautiful and loving thing, such as might have moved any heart to tenderness and wonder. This great beauty, this worshipped creature, put her arms beneath and about the helpless, awful body--for so its pallor and stillness indeed made it--and lifted it in their powerful whiteness as if it had been the body of a child, and so bore it to a couch near and laid it down, kneeling beside it.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
She dropped her queenly head and shielded the whiteness of her face in the coverlid's folds.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
Hmm. Well, good luck to you, then. but like I said, if you'reinterested in a tooth whitening, my card'sstill in your wallet.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
There's a whitening of the skin around the eyes, which is a dead give away for the kind of fear that we try to hide when we lie.美剧 · 《Lie to me》
I lost all confidence in George Foreman after his teeth-whitening system burned my gums.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
They're trying to get their teeth really yellow so they can practice whitening them in class.美剧 · 《Shameless》