The chief characteristic of the weather is its uncertainty; there are clear bright intervals when the sea and sky are of electric blue and the headlands are etched out on them in black, and then all in a moment the lowering wall of storm comes up visibly; the outlines of everything are obliterated in one sweep, and a squall of hail as big as peas shrieks around, whitening the ground, then flies on in its mad course, to be succeeded by the joyous freshness of the clean-washed air and the glory of the vivifying sun.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton
I was encouraged by nothing, mother, but by looking at the red sparks dropping out of the fire, and whitening and dying.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
I felt myself whitening.
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard