 | Great Britain - 1831 - 502 pages
...original offender and all her female posterity, a taste, which converted the penalty into a boon ; oil this principle only can I account for the love of...(with their endless subdivisions) the families of the ' Esterbazies," the ' doves,' tbe ' slates,' the ' puces,' the ' mulberries,* the ' bronzes,' and the... | |
 | Thomas Harttree Cornish - Women - 1836 - 538 pages
...then ' ash' gray, then ' silver' gray, then ' raven' gray, and, for aught I know, a dozen other grays. Then come the fawn, the ' light' fawn, the ' dark' fawn, the 'red' fawn, the ' brown' fawn, the 4 hare's back,' and the 'brown paper' colour; then follow (with their endless subdivisions) the families... | |
 | Reynell Coates - Gift books - 1850 - 348 pages
...then 'ash' gray, then 'silver' gray, then ' raven' gray, and, for aught I know, a dozen other grays. Then come the fawn, the ' light' fawn, the ' dark'...brown' fawn, the ' hare's back,' and the ' brown paper' 11 colour ; — then follow (with their endless subdivisions) the families of the ' Esterhazies,' the... | |
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First there -is white, pure unadulterated white ; then there is ' dead' white, then there is ' blue' white, then there is ' pearl' white, then there is ' French ' white, and heaven knows how many other whites. — Next follow the greys; — first there... 