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Examples
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How blanch'd his dusky cheek! that late was flush'd
Cromwell Alfred B. Richards
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Aged men grown grey in crime, whose hair thus blanch'd
Cromwell Alfred B. Richards
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Whose courage ne'er hath blanch'd as yet, though sorely, sharply tried --
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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Bent down and closed, when day has blanch'd their leaves
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Alfred Biese 1893
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The slumberers awaked with fear, some started for the doors, some look'd up with blanch'd cheeks and lips to the roof, and the little pages began to cry; it was a scene!
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They were all of pleasant, even handsome physiognomy; no refinement, nor blanch'd with intellect, but as my eye pick'd them, moving along, rank by rank, there did not seem to be a single repulsive, brutal or markedly stupid face among them.
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Though the blanch'd lips breathed out no boisterous plaint
Memories of Bethany 1856
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The slumberers awaked with fear, some started for the doors, some look'd up with blanch'd cheeks and lips to the roof, and the little pages began to cry; it was a scene.
Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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They were all of pleasant physiognomy; no refinement, nor blanch'd with intellect, but as my eye pick'd them, moving along, rank by rank, there did not seem to be a single repulsive, brutal or markedly stupid face among them.
Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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The faces of hunters and fishers bulged at the brows, the shaved blanch'd faces of orthodox citizens,
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855
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