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    whitish


    1. not know) and recalled that wicked face with whitish eyes and tangled


    2. Her unintelligible words were still ringing in the ionized air, when I first noticed those pools of an odd, whitish liquid oozing all over the place


    3. As it had lain hidden amongst the pine needles, the whitish spots marking the snakes back reflected the dim moonlight back up at him, giving away the adder's presence


    4. In half an hour, he was reading with a whitish face and fingers that drummed away


    5. Hers were a beautiful green, the whitish green of her tree


    6. The soft convoluted mass of grayish and whitish nerve substance which fills the cranium of man and other vertebrates


    7. He saw the Sun, the Stars and whitish moon,


    8. smoke unite in a thick whitish cloud that will fill the entire tube and


    9. In the distance could be seen the curtain of shimmering haziness that marked the Boundary, though only the whitish line it made on the surface of the water was very distinct


    10. The birches reached unimaginable heights of more than fifty meters with their whitish crust resembling to the most exquisite ivory and dense disheveled pines scratched the celestial sphere at the movement of the wind

    11. An incipient drowsiness of whitish smoke rose promising to reach major protrusion


    12. Her hair waved up to the waist, swirled like snakes; her sinister mouth was drawing a smile that looked more like a grimace that allowed seeing the whitish pieces of a few teeth


    13. Tall, leaning towers of smoke billowed into the sky, whitish, sluggish, stirring ¾ a greasy fog


    14. The desert lay bare to the gaze, though just now this view was limited by low-lying clouds which rested in whitish masses on the southern horizon


    15. They were great gleaming disks that stared unwinkingly, luminous, whitish, and without a hint of normal emotion or sanity


    16. Meltz produced a jar containing a grisly object, partly cutaway showing many long, thin, whitish threads crowded into one of its chambers like so much spaghetti


    17. abdomen whitish and the cheeks and brows have white fur around


    18. The appendages are white or whitish coloured and the


    19. The whitish granite of the column is at first largely invisible against the backdrop of the mist, giving this strange, holy man the appearance of levitating


    20. an old whitish hued building and approach his car

    21. only one whitish cloudlet created a unique masterpiece of this grandiose view


    22. Though her skin appeared to have more of a whitish tint to it


    23. The red ruby at the base of the hilt reflected what little light hit it from the burning torches, giving it a reddish glow, whilst the blade had a whitish haze about it


    24. She stared at me with eyes the loveliest shade of blue - if you ignored the whitish film slowly creeping across each iris


    25. Fred’s heart was beating faster, the blood had drained out of his face and his hand on the table had formed into a whitish fist


    26. He was dancing in the crowd, but his head, all round and whitish from the spot-lights, with a strand of wet hair continuously brushing against his brow like a wind-screen-wiper, was floating above the endless sea of all the other heads


    27. The whitish fabric is spotted with innumerable marks of an indefinable color; the whole thing is supported by battered wooden tent-poles


    28. His face was whitish and I knew he was in pain, but he smiled anyway, “Yes there’s no doubting that


    29. It was a sun-tanned face with a shock of closely cropped whitish hair and wide blue


    30. inlaid in that oval was a fine whitish yellow edge that followed all around its

    31. As far as Raskolnikov could make out from his stolen glances, he was a man no longer young, stout, with a full, fair, almost whitish beard


    32. The whitish light of the window-panes fell with soft undulations


    33. Sweat stood on every brow, and a whitish steam, like the vapour of a stream on an autumn morning, floated above the table between the hanging lamps


    34. When the device is operating, this gas becomes luminous and gives off a continuous whitish light


    35. There were Port Jackson sharks with a brown back, a whitish belly, and eleven rows of teeth, bigeye sharks with necks marked by a large black spot encircled in white and resembling an eye, and Isabella sharks whose rounded snouts were strewn with dark speckles


    36. There were whitish eels of the species Gymnotus fasciatus that passed like elusive wisps of steam, conger eels three to four meters long that were tricked out in green, blue, and yellow, three–foot hake with a liver that makes a dainty morsel, wormfish drifting like thin seaweed, sea robins that poets call lyrefish and seamen pipers and whose snouts have two jagged triangular plates shaped like old Homer's lyre, swallowfish swimming as fast as the bird they're named after, redheaded groupers whose dorsal fins are trimmed with filaments, some shad (spotted with black, gray, brown, blue, yellow, and green) that actually respond to tinkling handbells, splendid diamond–shaped turbot that were like aquatic pheasants with yellowish fins stippled in brown and the left topside mostly marbled in brown and yellow, finally schools of wonderful red mullet, real oceanic birds of paradise that ancient Romans bought for as much as 10,000 sesterces apiece, and which they killed at the table, so they could heartlessly watch it change color from cinnabar red when alive to pallid white when dead


    37. When I turned around, I could still see the Nautilus's whitish beacon, which was starting to grow pale in the


    38. We were floating in the midst of gigantic bodies, bluish on the back, whitish on the belly, and all deformed by enormous protuberances


    39. In the air there passed sooty albatross with four–meter wingspans, birds aptly dubbed "vultures of the ocean," also gigantic petrels including several with arching wings, enthusiastic eaters of seal that are known as quebrantahuesos,* and cape pigeons, a sort of small duck, the tops of their bodies black and white—in short, a whole series of petrels, some whitish with wings trimmed in brown, others blue and exclusive to these Antarctic seas, the former "so oily," I told Conseil, "that inhabitants of the Faroe Islands simply fit the bird with a wick, then light it up


    40. I noted some one–decimeter southern bullhead, a species of whitish cartilaginous fish overrun with bluish gray stripes and armed with stings, then some Antarctic rabbitfish three feet long, the body very slender, the skin a smooth silver white, the head rounded, the topside furnished with three fins, the snout ending in a trunk that curved back toward the mouth

    41. During our crossing I saw numerous baleen whales belonging to the three species unique to these southernmost seas: the bowhead whale (or "right whale," according to the English), which has no dorsal fin; the humpback whale from the genus Balaenoptera (in other words, "winged whales"), beasts with wrinkled bellies and huge whitish fins that, genus name regardless, do not yet form wings; and the finback whale, yellowish brown, the swiftest of all cetaceans


    42. I also noted long, whitish strings of salps, a type of mollusk found in clusters, and some jellyfish of large size that swayed in the eddies of the billows


    43. Among cartilaginous fish: some brook lamprey, a type of eel fifteen inches long, head greenish, fins violet, back bluish gray, belly a silvery brown strewn with bright spots, iris of the eye encircled in gold, unusual animals that the Amazon's current must have swept out to sea because their natural habitat is fresh water; sting rays, the snout pointed, the tail long, slender, and armed with an extensive jagged sting; small one–meter sharks with gray and whitish hides, their teeth arranged in several backward–curving rows, fish commonly known by the name carpet shark; batfish, a sort of reddish isosceles triangle half a meter long,


    44. Next came swarms of red mullet corseted in gold stripes from head to tail, their shining fins all aquiver, genuine masterpieces of jewelry, formerly sacred to the goddess Diana, much in demand by rich Romans, and about which the old saying goes: "He who catches them doesn't eat them!" Finally, adorned with emerald ribbons and dressed in velvet and silk, golden angelfish passed before our eyes like courtiers in the paintings of Veronese; spurred gilthead stole by with their swift thoracic fins; thread herring fifteen inches long were wrapped in their phosphorescent glimmers; gray mullet thrashed the sea with their big fleshy tails; red salmon seemed to mow the waves with their slicing pectorals; and silver moonfish, worthy of their name, rose on the horizon of the waters like the whitish reflections of many


    45. He returned in five minutes with a whitish face


    46. The affluents of the Amazon are, half of them, of this nature, while the other half are whitish and opaque, the difference depending upon the class of country through which they have flowed


    47. It was long, whitish, and blotched with pimples, the nose flattened, and the lower jaw projecting, with a bristle of coarse whiskers round the chin


    48. Next he took out a double handful of some whitish stuff, like dough or putty


    49. Madame Magloire having taken the pictures down to dust, the Bishop had discovered these particulars written in whitish ink on a little square of paper, yellowed by time, and attached to the back of the portrait of the Abbe of Grand-Champ with four wafers


    50. Meanwhile, as the moon was about to rise, and as there was still floating in the zenith a remnant of the brightness of twilight, these clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a gleam of light fell upon the earth























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    Synonyms for "whitish"

    off-white whitish milklike milky

    "whitish" definitions

    resembling milk in color; not clear


    of something having a color tending toward white