Clothes may not make the man, but if your message is modernity and flexibility, they say more than reformer, a label blanched of meaning by its application to a parade of more traditional Saudi royals.
By the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a drunkard.
First step for mine is to shell some broad beans, some peas and then to snap off woody ends from asparagus, all of which are gonna be blanched and then refreshed in ice water.
Of course, everyone's pretty sure that a Poe that simmers for an hour and a half after getting properly blanched and caramelised would melt in your mouth on that January Sunday.
Swithin's heart swelled within him in sudden pity for her, first; then he blanched with a horrified sense of what she had done, and at his own relation to the deed.
There is this salad that my dad made literally, like, every day, which was blanched green beans, sliced tomatoes, salt and sometimes fish sauce, and then also sometimes hard-boiled eggs.
Quite white-haired already, deadened by his sedentary life, he had a flabby, colourless face, blanched and worn, as it were, by the reflection of the money he was continually handling.
Stay, ' said he, his eye catching on Margaret's face, blanched with watching in a sick room, 'I'm not sure whether I can go; I've a long round to take.