The Avonlea school was a whitewashed building, low in the eaves and wide in the windows, furnished inside with comfortable substantial old-fashioned desks that opened and shut, and were carved all over their lids with the initials and hieroglyphics of three generations of school children.
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With dramatic suddenness he struck a match, and by its light exposed a stain of blood upon the whitewashed wall.
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Going to school in the United States whitewashed me to the point where I nearly forgot how to speak Spanish, and got along better with my white friends than my Latino ones.
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As populations and cities grow, our once pristine view of the stars is being whitewashed by urban glow. Astronomers, whose view of the heavens is being dimmed, are complaining, but biologists are also decrying light pollution because they find it hurts wildlife development and possibly human health, too.
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