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Updated: May 14, 2025
It was that of the man who covets his neighbour's goods, i.e. the lands and moneys of the monasteries and churches, and who whitewashes his sin when his desire is satisfied.
In lieu of it the boys got some white limestone, which they first calcined, and then puddled up into a paste with water. This mixture they rubbed into the fabric of their breeches. The effect of this could not be very well made out by firelight, and next morning there was no time to alter it if it did not suit. However, the ingenious whitewashes were satisfied.
Indeed, I have not mentioned the most important one of all." "What is that, Harry?" said Dorian Gray, listlessly. "Oh, the obvious one. Taking some one else's admirer when one loses one's own. In good society that always whitewashes a woman. But really, Dorian, how different Sibyl Vane must have been from all the women one meets! There is something to me quite beautiful about her death.
But, now, Aunt Sarah's went an' fell down cellar." "Whitewash whitewash?" queried Miss Theodosia. "Yes'm, you didn't think Mother was a washwoman, did you? Of course she could, but it doesn't pay's well. She only whitewashes white clo'es, you know, dresses an' shirtwaists. She says it's her talent that the Lord's gave her, an' she's goin' to make it gain ten talents for Carruthers.
We are to suppress the natural inclination to pay back in the enemy's own coin, to 'give him as good as he gave us, to 'show proper spirit, and all the other fine phrases with which the world whitewashes hatred and revenge.
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