But I was to learn that the Martian smile is merely perfunctory, and that the Martian laugh is a thing to cause strong men toblanch in horror.

It was truly said, optimi consiliarii mortui: books will speak plain, when counsellorsblanch.Therefore it is good to be conversant in them, specially the books of such as themselves have been actors upon the stage.

Lucille read it, and her faceblanched. "I thank you for your invitation, but I fear that it would not be good for my health.

Adam's young bride was proud of her man, but sheblanched at the thought of the ghastly White Worm.

How the stigma stands out red as blood upon hisblanched cheek!

And then he drew back with a cry, and ablanched face.

For men whose lips areblanched and white, With aching wounds and torturing thirst, What charm in canvas shot with light, And pale with faces cleft and curst, Past life and life's delight?

Whilst Cornelius, debating this point within himself, was building all sorts of castles in the air, and was struggling between hope and fear, the shutter of the grating in the door opened, and Rosa, beaming with joy, and beautiful in her pretty national costume -- but still more beautiful from the grief which for the last five months hadblanched her cheeks -- pressed her little face against the wire grating of the window, saying to him, --

Anne, her pale faceblanched with its baptism of pain, her eyes aglow with the holy passion of motherhood, did not need to be told to think of her baby.

She let me hold it for a moment, and I saw a flash of ecstatic brilliance in her eye, a glow of glad excitement on her face - I thought my hour of victory was come - but instantly a painful recollection seemed to flash upon her; a cloud of anguish darkened her brow, a marble palenessblanched her cheek and lip; there seemed a moment of inward conflict, and, with a sudden effort, she withdrew her hand, and retreated a step or two back.

"It were better for you, John Ferrier," he thundered, "that you and she were now lyingblanched skeletons upon the Sierra Blanco, than that you should put your weak wills against the orders of the Holy Four!"

She turned white, and this made me ask myself if I hadblanched as much.