"It was before the date when the browns we use on our wall papers began to be reverently studied from Thames mud, and the greens and yellows from mouldy cheese. No one as yet toned down tender dirty drab within to match the formless smoky drab without, no one adored rhubarb tints, or admired the colour resulting from mixtures of cocoa and milk."
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Jean Ingelow, Don John, Volume I, Chapter 1 (1881).
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