1 Villefort would probably have rather stood opposite the muzzle of a pistol at five-and-twenty paces than have heard this name spoken; but he did not blanch.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 13. The Hundred Days. 2 In fact, to get Wurmser, it sufficed to blanch the hair of Wellington.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 3 I leaned against a gate, and looked into an empty field where no sheep were feeding, where the short grass was nipped and blanched.
4 Well might she put the question: his face was blanched as her gown.
5 In a few seconds she stretched herself out stiff, and turned up her eyes, while her cheeks, at once blanched and livid, assumed the aspect of death.
6 Edgar sprang to his unbidden guest, blanched with astonishment and rage.
7 Carol saw that George Edwin Mott and the blanched Mr. and Mrs. Dawson were not yet hypnotized.
8 But blanched to a corpse's hue with despair, the Mate had stolen away.
9 He blanched like one who has come to the edge of a cliff at midnight and is suddenly made aware.
10 Their blanched faces shone in the dusk.
11 The Iron Duke remained calm, but his lips blanched.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN 12 They looked on, vaguely blanched with the reflection of so much joy at this sweet swarming of the hives.
13 The twilight pallor of the sky blanched the earth, and the lane formed a livid line between two rows of dark bushes.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI... 14 Thinking to purge the city, the population is blanched like plants raised in cellars.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA 15 Tom blanched and dropped his eyes.