half-bleached

Updated: June 5, 2025

And very soon she was smiling and clapping her hands, while I solemnly burned a match. 'It may seem odd to you, but it was two days before I could follow up the new-found clue in what was manifestly the proper way. I felt a peculiar shrinking from those pallid bodies. They were just the half-bleached colour of the worms and things one sees preserved in spirit in a zoological museum.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Time Machine