Crimson and brilliant red are vulgar and unsuitable, but purple and dark maroon, worn by brunettes, and persons of a dark complexion, are both becoming and genteel, either in evening or winter dresses. 2395.
— from Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-five Receipts, Facts, Directions, etc. in the Useful, Ornamental, and Domestic Arts by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

Groves and lawns, walks and seats under the trees; prepared places for cricket and base ball and gymnastic exercises; swings for the children.
— from The Gold of Chickaree by Susan Warner

The hair of some of them was golden, rippling in little curls around brown brows and glowing eyes.
— from New Italian sketches by John Addington Symonds