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Meanings of whitewashed room in English

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Usage of whitewashed room in English
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The strong glaring light in the large whitewashed room dazzled my eyes.
American Indian Stories
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Her classroom was a bare, windowless, whitewashed room, thirty feet square.
The Sirens of Titan
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It was a long, narrow, whitewashed room, smelling strongly of violet-powder and clothes.
A Mummer's Wife
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Old Giorgio had chosen that bare, whitewashed room for a retreat.
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
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Yes, only last week you were seated in a whitewashed room overhanging the market-place.
Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch
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The hall was nothing more than a large whitewashed room.
Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
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She never cried; it might make a noise in the still, whitewashed room to frighten her.
The Best Short Stories of 1920, and the Yearbook of the American...
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I slept in that little Cape Verde hotel, in the low whitewashed room overlooking the sea.
The Hunted Woman
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The whitewashed room used as a dressing-station had a smell of blood stronger than the chloride.
One Man's Initiation—1917
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The little arched whitewashed room was almost dark.
The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California
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A low whitewashed room, with a stone floor carefully scrubbed, served for parlor, kitchen, and hall.
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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Long, slanting shadows from the sinking sun were streaking the wall of the whitewashed room with slender, forklike fingers.
The Best Short Stories of 1920, and the Yearbook of the American...
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Its front door opened directly upon a whitewashed room, with a round table in the centre, covered with charts.
Poison Island
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The whitewashed room in which he receives us is encumbered with the age-old debris which he is continually bringing to light.
Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
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It was a little whitewashed room, with a table in the center, six chairs, and a kitchen-cupboard close to the wall.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.
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She undressed in the shining clean whitewashed room, with a thoughtful brown wood Christ hanging on a crucifix over the bed.
The Young Lions
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