make pale

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I'm afraid some one has already come to make pale the beauty of the sculptress.

From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Garland, Hamlin

No more within thy vales, Beside thy plashing wells, Where sweet Euterpe dwells With songs of nightingales, And sounds of flutes that make pale Silence glow, Shall I their rapture know.

From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Victor, Frances Fuller

Or make pale my cheeks with care, 'Cause another's rosie are?

From Familiar Quotations by Bartlett, John

Or my cheeks make pale with care, 'Cause another's rosy are?

From Tudor and Stuart Love Songs by Briscoe, John Potter

Bleach, blēch, v.t. to make pale or white: to whiten, as textile fabrics.—v.i. to grow white.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various