make pale
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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
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 Frances Fuller Victor
I'm afraid some one has already come to make pale the beauty of the sculptress.
From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Hamlin Garland
Or make pale my cheeks with care, 'Cause another's rosy are?
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
Or my cheeks make pale with care, 'Cause another's rosy are?
From Tudor and Stuart Love Songs by John Potter Briscoe
