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delicacies and refinements in colour effects
We come now to consider delicacies and refinements in colour effects, which, although dependent upon the skilful exercise of the laws enunciated, are yet of a character, the power to produce which only results from the consideration of the works of the masters of great art-nations; but of these effects I can say little beyond pointing out what should be studied.
— from Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition by Christopher Dresser

dissipation and reared in constant excitement
James Gordon Bennett said of her in the Herald that "being born and schooled in turmoil and dissipation and reared in constant excitement she could not live without it."
— from As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Marian Gouverneur

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