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1 " This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them could bear: the cold rain of winter has sufficed to nourish it, and its faint sun to warm it; the bleak winds have not blanched it, or broken its stem, and the keen frost has not blighted it. Look, Gilbert, it is still fresh and blooming as a flower can be, with the cold snow even now on its petals. "
― Anne Brontë
2 " She is a wiry blanched creature with no beauty. Her expression reminds him of a crumpled letter – there is both sadness and anger in it. "
― Glenn Haybittle , The Way Back to Florence
3 " Everything I touch dies in my hand and the same thing's happening to you. You were vibrant when I met you, and now I've blanched the color from your cheeks and caused you nothing but pain. "
― H.M. Ward , The Arrangement 14: The Ferro Family (The Arrangement, #14)
4 " Imagine the wizened quality of a life blanched of contradiction and double standard.p 44 "
