What is "whited"

Usage examples of "whited".

In a very few hours I arrived in a city that always makes me think of a whited sepulcher.

It is wonderful what insight the author of the play must have had when he planned the scene where his servant, the workman in love with his work, tells the worldly minded Churchman, who is full of platitudes and as vile as a whited sepulcher, of the temple which he, the workman, built.

Below him the desert lay like a whited sepulcher cut by the dark ribbon of the interstate highway.

The instincts of her girlhood, surviving, made a whited sepulcher of her present life.

By a thousand fires in the iron blue dusk he keeps his commissary and he's a wry and grinning tradesman good to follow every campaign or hound men from their holes in just those whited regions where they've gone to hide from God.

The corridors were narrow, their imperfectly whited walls stained by patient fungus and by swirling trails of limescale left by the creeping damp.

For although each man among them was discrete unto himself, conjoined they made a thing that had not been before and in that communal soul were wastes hardly reckonable more than those whited regions on old maps where monsters do live and where there is nothing other of the known world save conjectural winds.

It was as fine a church inside as out obviously Scottish rite, so it was plain but all the more cheerful for that, a bright and airy place, with whited walls and glass-paned windows.

It was as fine a church inside as out-- obviously Scottish rite, so it was plain-- but all the more cheerful for that, a bright and airy place, with whited walls and glass-paned windows.

He has to do it, because in the curia, too, there were men seized with doubt, even the Franciscans in the curia­—pharisees, whited sepulchers, ready to sell themselves for a prebend, but they were seized with doubt.

The city whited out as if from a nuclear flash, the edges of the boat faded, as if into a sea mist.

It was struck by what appeared to be a bolt of light from above and the display momentarily whited out.

As the helicopter slowly nosed around in a maelstrom of straining engines and beating air, I caught a glimpse of Pat Harvey staring down at her daughter' Jeep before sunlight whited out the glass.

Terror whited out all other thoughts, then, terror that things were moving so fast, that it was all real, and all his objections were spent to no avail.

Inches past the third figure, the thermoscan was whited out by the ambient heat from E37.