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Whiteness

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Whiteness
ermine
winter stoat; said to die if whiteness is soiled. [Art: Hall, 115]
Moby Dick
white whale pursued relentlessly by Captain Ahab; “It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me.” [Am. Lit.: Moby Dick]
pale horse
ridden by Death. [N. T.: Revelation 6:8]
Silver
flashing white steed of the Lone Ranger. [Radio: Buxton, 143–144]
white belt of wampum
giving one was giving the deepest pledge of honor. [Am. Indian Trad.: Misc.]
white forked flame
holiest flame on the altar. [Persian Folklore: Misc.]
White Steed of the Prairies
charger who led the wild horses before the West was tamed. [Am. Indian Legend: Misc.]
white stone
marked a joyful day. [Rom. Trad.: Misc.]
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For instance, a certain point of grammatical knowledge is present in the mind, but is not predicable of any subject; or again, a certain whiteness may be present in the body (for colour requires a material basis), yet it is never predicable of anything.
The Categories by Aristotle View in context
The distant flat shrank in uniform whiteness and low-hanging uniformity of cloud.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
The whiteness of their teeth was still more dazzling than the splendour of jewels at their ears.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
 
 
 
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