make pale

Example Sentences

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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

Or make pale my cheeks with care Cause anothers Rosie are?

From A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers by Various

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

From Tudor and Stuart Love Songs by Briscoe, John Potter

The meaning ½to blight¸ comes in that case from to glitter, hence, to be white or pale, grow pale, make pale, bleach.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

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