"Self-coloured" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the small, deal table hid its bare nakedness beneath a dainty cloth; the two rickety armchairs veiled their faded tapestry under chintz covers, cunningly contrived and delicately tinted to match the cheap but soft-toned drugget on the floor and the self-coloured paper on the walls, where hung two or three inexpensive reproductions of famous paintings; and in all things there breathed an air of refinement wholly unexpected in Hell's Kitchen. Wherefore Mr. Ravenslee, observing all ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol
... flowers; here white petals edged with maroon; there of a uniform deep maroon." (11/77. 'Journal of Proc. Linn. Soc.' volume 2 Botany page 132.) Mr. Bree also mentions a plant "which bore two different kinds of self-coloured flowers, as well as a third kind which partook of both colours beautifully intermixed." (11/78. Loudon's 'Gardener's Mag.' volume 8 1832 page 94.) Another case is described of a dahlia with purple flowers which bore a white flower streaked with purple. ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin |
