Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very "doggy" Senior on his way from Boston to Cambridge in one of the commodious yellow sardine-boxes furnished by the Union Railway. (Elevated railroads and voluntary prayers are things of the future.) He sat in the centre of a space wide enough for two, - dreamily thinking of the kindness of the Refrigerator and Ficklety of Harvard College, and planning up some pretty little present to give the proctors * when he left...
...Tiber's yellow wave that steamers...
...grinning skull of a yellow Mongol...
First, Antigone, I will give you a black eye, to indicate that you must not scribble on my easel again; and long flowing hair, to show that you are in love. For this I take yellow ochre and gamboge, not too much of either, with a slight infusion of chiaroscuro. She shall have a blue tunic like the Sienese madonnas, spotted with little stars. For this, take cobalt, Mars orange, and Chinese white, about half and half. Her feet must be delicately sandalled, as if to walk only on a bed of roses. Around her neck there must...
...falling leaves are dry and yellow...