After spending a week on the beach in Mexico, Oscar was pretty tanned, except for a band of white skin around his wrist from his watch.

She was very pretty, with big, dark eyes, and a very white skin; but there was an elfish, frightened manner about her that had nothing of childhood in it.

Then passing over her white skin.

It is simply an attempt to identify the ways that whites remain blind to, and blinded by, an unspoken faith in race--and to expose the means by which white skin and "white attitudes" still confer social advantage.


However, this week's Enquirer reveals there's only a patch of very white skin where Cupid and "Renny" used to be.

It was harder to forgo the beautiful ones--elegant, blond Clare, for instance, with her hard-won hauteur and Lilly Daché hats and petal-white skin.

Dillman's garden on Hickory street, Chillicothe, white with this plant.

I am just going to see Mrs. Muscovy,(1307) and will be sure not to laugh if my old lady should talk of Mr. Draper's white skin, and tickle his bosom like Queen Bess. (1305) Rowe's tragedy of Tamerlane was written in compliment to William the Third, whose character the author intended to display under that of Tamerlane, as he meant to be understood to draw that of Louis the When a boy he had a remarkably delicate, white skin, which was once the cause of great punishment to him.

Father so often angry, so lately cruel (for it was a hard blow, and blistered and reddened Mary's soft white skin with pain): and then her heart turned round, and she remembered with self-reproach how provokingly she had looked and spoken, and how much her father had to bear; and oh, what a kind and loving parent he had been, till these days of trial.

As the only endowments with which Nature had gifted Lady Crawley were those of pink cheeks and a white skin, and as she had no sort of character, nor talents, nor opinions, nor occupations, nor amusements, nor that vigour of soul and ferocity of temper which often falls to the lot of entirely foolish women, her hold upon Sir Pitt's affections was not very But when he saw her asleep he thought he would not shed her blood, nor scar that white skin of hers, more white than alabaster.

The novelty of a white skin in that clear river might have proved too strong a temptation for a shark to withstand.

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