The rat is gray in summer but bleaches to blue-gray in winter time.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Like the Samoans, the Fijians often cover their hair with white lime, and the effect of the sun bleaches the hair and changes it from black to a light gold or brown colour.
"Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines"
H. Wilfrid Walker
I do not think that would ever have left me: it is the care of the prudent wise that bleaches the grass, and is as the fumes of sulphur to the red rose of life.
"The Flight of the Shadow"
George MacDonald