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Updated: June 10, 2025
She stood facing Betty, a pathetic little figure in her washed-out muslin frock and with her washed-out face and eyes and being, though on her faded cheeks a flush was rising.
'It's all right, she said. 'It's all over now. I wasn't going to let him die. I was only thinking, 'Well it's over now, but it will come on again. I wish it was over for good. I'm tired of it. She called to her sister, Mrs Brighten, a washed-out, helpless little fool of a woman, who'd been running in and out and whimpering all the time 'Here, Jessie! bring the new white blanket off my bed.
There was not a cloud left, and the direct rays of the great orb of day caused a rapid evaporation of the rain, so that the ground seemed to be covered with a sort of mist. On every side could be seen the effects of the hurricane- broken trees, washed-out places along the river, and dead birds and small animals, including countless monkeys.
The washed-out little woman was still sewing, but stitching blindly, for great tears were rolling down her worn cheeks. Johnny, white-faced on account of the heat, stood close behind her, one hand on her shoulder and the other clenched on the table; but the clenched hand shook as badly as the loose one. "Good God! What is the matter, Mary? You're sick!" Has the boys been up to anything?"
"But we're goin' to be taxed for 'em," put in another woman, joining the group a lanky creature with washed-out eyes, and lips that she seemed in danger of swallowing, so sunken were they. "How's that?" cried Mrs. Hemphill, sharply. "It's to be some way put onto the men in their drink and tobacco so my man says and it'll make it a cent more on a glass and a plug.
The dyeing then proceeds; and whatever is dyed in this manner becomes a fast colour, and no washing either with lyes or without them can take away the bloom. But, when the ground has not been duly prepared, you will have noticed how poor is the look either of purple or of any other colour. Yes, he said; I know that they have a washed-out and ridiculous appearance.
Giles's can help being born preternaturally, unhealthily clever. I am going with my friend this evening: that hope is enough to make me strong for one day at least. So I set myself to my task, and that morning wiled the first gleam of intelligent delight out of the eyes of one poor little washed-out ladyship. I could have kissed her from positive thankfulness. The day did wear over.
There was something of a flabby sort in Mullally's nature that made Henry instinctively angry with him: his vague features, his weak, wandering eyes, peering from behind large glasses, his tow-coloured hair that seemed to have "washed-out," and above all, his squeaky voice that piped on one jerky note.... It was Gilbert Farlow who gave Mullally his nick-name.
He was a little, pale, washed-out looking man, with sandy hair and prominent brown eyes. Being an old bachelor when he married Aunt Agatha, he had very precise, formal ways, and was methodical and punctual to a fault. Next to Uncle Keith, I hated that white-faced watch of his. I hated the slow, ponderous way in which he drew it from his pocket, and produced it for my special benefit.
Over at the saloon "Pop's Place," it proclaimed itself in washed-out lettering three tied horses circled uneasily until they were standing back to the storm, their bodies hunched together with the chill of it, their tails whipping between their legs. They accentuated the blank dreariness of the empty street.
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